https://risu.org.ua/en/indexhttps://risu.org.ua/php_uploads/images/sitecontent/ContentFileLogo_EN_5.gifhttps://risu.org.ua/en/index16984https://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/other_confessions/islam/80251/Tue, 19 May 2020 10:28:08 +0300President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with representatives of the Crimean Tatar people. The Head of State expressed condolences on the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Crimean Tatar Genocide.Islamhttps://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/religion_and_society/80240/Mon, 18 May 2020 11:48:13 +0300The OCU expresses its condolences and shares the pain of the consequences of the forced deportation of Crimean Tatars from their homeland in 1944. The head of the OCU, Metropolitan Epiphanius wrote about this on his Facebook page.Religion and societyhttps://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/catholics/rcc_in_ukraine/80237/Mon, 18 May 2020 10:50:53 +0300The conference of Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine has prepared a communique on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Saint John Paul II.RCC in Ukrainehttps://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/other_confessions/islam/80230/Mon, 18 May 2020 09:16:56 +0300Memorial events to mark the 76th anniversary of deportation of the Crimean Tatar people from the Crimean Peninsula were held at the Islamic cultural center in Severodonetsk.Islamhttps://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/ukraine_and_world/ukrainians_outside_of_Ukraine/80222/Sat, 16 May 2020 18:04:10 +0300The final of the competition will be held on June 18, 2020.Ukrainians outside of Ukrainehttps://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/religion_and_policy/80217/Sat, 16 May 2020 13:58:32 +0300One of the ways to influence the immature consciousness of children in the annexed region of the Crimea is to involve priests in the process of identity change.Religion and policyhttps://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/religion_and_society/80215/Fri, 15 May 2020 22:01:43 +0300You can hear a lot if you listen to God and try to understand how a person can build a new culture and civilization in a new way. The key to building a “new world” is the commandment of love, which renews those who practice it and who live by it.Religion and societyhttps://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/state/authorities_religious_affairs/80212/Fri, 15 May 2020 17:28:45 +0300The Department of Religious and Ethnic Affairs of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine has developed and offered recommendations to the religious community lifting of the quarantine for religious organizations.Authorities Religious Affairshttps://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/state/church_state_relations/80211/Fri, 15 May 2020 17:05:36 +0300On May 15, 2020, His Beatitude Sviatoslav, Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, met with the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba at the residence of the Patriarchal Cathedral at the request of the latter.Church-state relationshttps://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/confessional/religious_relations/80207/Fri, 15 May 2020 14:11:13 +0300Pope Francis declared May 14, 2020, to be the day of the spiritual unity of religions in prayer and fasting for the end of the coronavirus pandemic.Religious relationshttps://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/state/church_state_relations/80188/Thu, 14 May 2020 13:18:48 +0300A video posted on the page of BioTexCom clinic from Venezia Hotel in Kyiv, which shows 46 newborn babies crying in beds deprived of parental warmth and treated as a product for which there was no buyer, prompted the bishops of the UGCC and RCC in Ukraine to appeal to the authorities with an urgent demand to ban surrogacy.Church-state relationshttps://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/80169/Wed, 13 May 2020 13:34:10 +0300This practically detective story related to the disappearance of religious shrines began in fall 2018. The first large-scale audit of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra was conducted in the last thirty years. The Ministry of Culture and the Security Service did not count several values of the XIX century, at least ten icons.Scandals, crimehttps://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/other_confessions/judaism/80164/Wed, 13 May 2020 11:00:10 +0300An official investigation has been ordered into the collection of information about members of the Jewish community in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. It was entrusted to employees of the Department of Internal Security and the Main Investigative Department of the National Police of Ukraine. This was stated by the head of the National Police. Ihor Klymenko on May 11, "Religion in Ukraine" reports.Judaismhttps://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/confessional/auccro/80156/Tue, 12 May 2020 12:12:56 +0300Due to overall changes, the All-Ukraine Council of Churches and Religious Organizations submitted proposals to the Cabinet of Ministers on the adaptive application of quarantine restrictions for religious organizations as well.AUCCRO, inter-confessional councilshttps://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/orthodox/ocu/80149/Tue, 12 May 2020 10:23:34 +0300The Council of State is vested with the rights of the highest administrative judicial authority, and as the Church of Greece is state-run, the appellants tried to get the Church's decision overturned in the manner prescribed for challenging state administrative decisions. This approach to the issue was rejected by the Council as unacceptable, and the appeal was dismissed.Orthodox Church of Ukrainehttps://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/freedom_of_conscience/80139/Mon, 11 May 2020 14:07:18 +0300The court did not uphold the petition filed by the defense to change the measure of restraint from detention in a pre-trial detention center to house arrest for Serhiy Filatov, a "Jehovah's witness" from Dzhankoy, who had been sentenced to six years.Freedom of Consciencehttps://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/vandalism/80138/Mon, 11 May 2020 13:02:39 +0300In Chernihiv, unknown destroyed 36 gravestones of executed German prisoners of war.Religious intolerance and vandalismhttps://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/ukraine_and_world/ukrainians_outside_of_Ukraine/80136/Mon, 11 May 2020 10:54:49 +0300On May 11, Bishop Vasyl Losten, Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Stamford, celebrates his 90th birthday. On this occasion, the Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church congratulated Bishop Vasyl with a Patriarchal certificate.Ukrainians outside of Ukrainehttps://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/culture/religious_holidays/80118/Sun, 10 May 2020 10:19:58 +0300His Beatitude Sviatoslav, Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, greeted Ukrainian mothers on Mother's Day, which is traditionally celebrated in Ukraine on the second Sunday in May.Religious holidays and traditionshttps://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/state/national_religious_question/80109/Fri, 08 May 2020 22:00:35 +0300May 8 for us, Christians, is first and foremost a day of prayer for the millions of innocent killed people: women, children, the elderly, for the victims of various ethnic cleansings and genocides. His Beatitude Sviatoslav, Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, said this during a marathon on the Priamiy TV Channel, dedicated to the Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation.National religious question