2 January 2020, 15:59 | Analysis | 

Ukrainian Orthodox Church 2019 – results of the year

The past year has highlighted two main areas of development. First, it is the recognition of the OCU, actual first, by virtue of concelebration of individual clergymen, and further at the level of Synodal decisions and concelebration of the Primates. Secondly, the transformation of the ROC into a mono-national church

13 September 2019, 14:53 | Open theme | 

Ukrainian autocephaly. After one year

All this past year the CEMES foundation worked on a scholarly project, which examined the Ukrainian crisis from a theological, historical and canonical perspective, always in relation to the triptych: Primacy-Conciliarity-Autocephaly.

10 September 2019, 11:16 | Viktor Yelenskyi's column | 

Interference impossible to ignore, or what should the state do with religious policy?

All states of the world have in place a policy regarding religion and associations that citizens set up based on this religion's ground. The atheistic government of China and theocratic government of Iran, the mighty United States and tiny Andorra – just every one of them.

30 August 2019, 15:57 | Analysis |  | 

Recognition by Greek Church and "domino effect"

The Church of Greece came close to formalizing legal relations with the OCU. The couple has already tried to live together, household claims have not arisen, and now, finally, they are preparing to get a stamp in the passport.

2 August 2019, 10:27 | Interview | 

In Ukraine, you have unique spiritual and national culture, keep moving to Europe, CEP Vice-President Margaret Meyer

Lviv has accommodated the 30th anniversary Colloquium of European Parishes which considered "If differences can unite us". 120 laymen and priests from Europe came here to share and gain new experience of parish life in live communication. We talked to Vice President of CEP Margaret Meyer ("Renovabis") who told how it all happened.

8 July 2019, 11:32 | Interview |  | 

Orthodox Church of Ukraine undergoing a catharsis – Cyril Hovorun

Euromaidan Press talked to Archimandrite Cyril Hovorun, PhD, Senior Lecturer at Stockholm School of Theology, former Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the UOC MP (pictured on the left), to understand how the OCU has been developing the last half a year and what impact Filaret’s actions could possibly have.

28 June 2019, 08:00 | Interview |  | 

A patriarchate for the UGCC is not only a title. Above all, it’s a way of existing, — His Beatitude Sviatoslav

Recently, there was information that Pope Francis is preparing a surprise for the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church. The pontiff wants to meet with the UGCC leadership to discuss a number of themes in ecclesiastical and social life. According to the Head of the UGCC, His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk), whom RISU had the opportunity to interview, such a meeting is truly very important.

4 June 2019, 16:17 | Interview |  | 

We lack heart to heart communication – Metropolitan Borys Gudziak

Today [4 June 2019] the enthronement of the new metropolitan of Philadelphia, the head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in the USA, His Eminence Borys Gudziak, is being held. On this occasion, the festival “From Heart to Heart“is happening in Philadelphia throughout the week.

29 May 2019, 12:53 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

Too soon for a patriarchate?

…the Kyivan patriarchate envisioned in the 1620s was conceived as a joint Uniate-Orthodox entity, remaining in communion with both Rome and Constantinople. Forces on both sides sank this ambitious dream. Could it be revived today?

2 May 2019, 12:38 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

Donbas: Religious Freedom in Proxy-Occupied Areas

In view of the restrictive 2018 Luhansk People’s Republic statute, it is not surprising that some groups declined to apply for registration, while others were refused. The result is that many religious communities find themselves outside the law…. the 48 Baptist Union congregations have had to cease their activity altogether.

27 February 2019, 13:16 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

The Clerical Abuse Crisis: Not Our Problem?

…while sexual abuse, episcopal cover-ups, and homosexual clergy may be specific to the Latin-rite Church, the broader implications of today’s crisis touch the Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church too.

2 January 2019, 18:47 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

What the OCU and the UGCC can teach each other

…the UGCC and the OCU can learn from each other’s historical experiences.

29 December 2018, 10:01 | Interview | 

New Church in Ukraine should put aside post-Soviet legacy: interview with Nicholas Denysenko

Can the historical event on 15 December be considered a victory, what goals does the new Church have before itself to gain the trust of world Orthodoxy, and what reform plan it should have are some of the questions we discussed with Fr. Nicholas Denysenko

7 November 2018, 10:27 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

Archimandrite Robert F. Taft, SJ: critic and defender of the christian east

If Christianity is to survive as a viable lifestyle attractive to modern men and women, it will not be as an obscurantist, anti-intellectual culture of folklore and ritualism, sustained by the rejection of modernity and change…. – Archimandrite Robert F. Taft, SJ

3 November 2018, 13:26 | Open theme | 

Ukrainian autocephaly. What next? The role of Patriarch Bartholomew

From what is being reported from Ukraine there seems certain misunderstandings as to what is to be done next.

24 October 2018, 21:30 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

The Political Trumps the Pastoral

…the Russia of 2018 holds much the same view of Ukraine, and its political as well as ecclesiastical independence, as did the Russia of 1917.

21 September 2018, 08:45 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

Filaret in Washington: Prepared for Putin’s Provocations

If the Ecumenical Patriarchate recognizes the UOC-KP as a canonical Church …. the struggle between Moscow and Constantinople for primacy in the Orthodox world will end, and the church of Moscow will revert to its proper status as a daughter of the church of Kyiv.

19 September 2018, 12:54 | Interview |  | 

Archbishop Job (Getcha) of Telmessos: “Ukraine has always been the canonical territory of the Ecumenical Patriarchate”

The dialogue regarding the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople granting autocephaly to the Ukrainian Church and the appointment of its exarchs to Ukraine for this purpose, has resulted in opposition from the Moscow Patriarchate and their break in concelebrating with the hierarchs of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, has recently been one of the main topics of conversation that do no cease in Ukrainian society and Media.

15 September 2018, 06:58 | Interview | 

The Archbishop of Telmessos Job (Getcha): autocephaly is a way of ensuring the unity of the Church within the interior of a state, as well as the unity between the Local Churches

The Ecumenical Patriarchate responds to the attacks of the Russian Orthodox Church.

31 August 2018, 16:40 | Kateryna Shchotkina's column | 

Church after Tomos – State and National Project or EX ORIENTE LUX?

The Ukrainian Church can become “fresh blood” for the ancient and in some cases an outdated structure. The blood which simply did not get there previously because of the barriers created by Russian Orthodoxy.