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The Head of the UGCC held meeting with the Prime Minister of Ukraine | 17 May 2018, 11:47 |
17 May 2018, 11:47
The Head of the UGCC held meeting with the Prime Minister of Ukraine
Russia named responsible for deterioration of religious freedom in annexed Crimea and occupied Donbas | 11 May 2018, 11:28 |
11 May 2018, 11:28
Russia named responsible for deterioration of religious freedom in annexed Crimea and occupied Donbas

3 May 2018, 11:32 | Andrew Sorokowski's column |
Autocephaly in a Nutshell
… the Moscow Patriarchate is busy both in Ukraine and the outside world agitating against such a grant of autocephaly to the UOC-KP and the UAOC, which it regards as schismatic. But its ability to influence world Orthodoxy is limited…
19 March 2018, 17:14 | Publications
Vanished World: Galicia’s Lost Synagogues
Galicia was once home to a large Jewish population. Before the war, Jews were the third most numerous ethnic group in the region, after Poles and Ukrainians, and all Galician cities and towns had vibrant Jewish communities. Much of this heritage was destroyed during the war and most of what remains is in ruins.
19 March 2018, 14:52 | Comments
The world is thirsty for peace
Oksana Bashuk Hepburn, former director with the Canadian Human Rights Commission and president of a consulting firm dealing with international affairs
14 March 2018, 07:48 | Events & people | |
Keepers of Sloboda Menorah. About the past and the present of Kharkiv Karaites
12 March 2018, 10:05 | Reports |
Lviv to become a center of parish life in Europe
Lviv will host the 30th Colloquium of European Parishes (CEP), which brings together the clergymen and lay people who would like to revitalize their parish life.
1 March 2018, 21:06 | Andrew Sorokowski's column |
Are More Religions Better?
Orthodox competition has increased throughout Ukraine since 2000. But has religiosity increased?
27 February 2018, 15:27 | Open theme |
Re-registration of religious organizations in ‘Luhansk People’s Republic’: mockery of freedom of conscience
While some church entities in Ukraine are vocal in declaring persecution and unacceptable interference of Ukrainian state authorities into internal church affairs, some very interesting processes are developing in the temporarily occupied territory of the Luhansk region (hereinafter “LNR”) that suggest comparison with Ukrainian “persecutions”.

14 March 2018, 07:48 | Events & people | |
Keepers of Sloboda Menorah. About the past and the present of Kharkiv Karaites
12 March 2018, 10:05 | Reports |
Lviv to become a center of parish life in Europe
Lviv will host the 30th Colloquium of European Parishes (CEP), which brings together the clergymen and lay people who would like to revitalize their parish life.
12 December 2017, 10:05 | Reports | |
MUSLIMS OF UKRAINE SIGN SOCIAL CONCEPT
The leaders of Muslim community and religious organizations signed a joint document on December 11, 2017 - The Social Concept of Muslims in Ukraine. At a solemn meeting, representatives of Islamic organizations spoke about the history of this document.
25 July 2017, 17:19 | Reports | |
“Faith and Light” celebrates 25th anniversary of special friendship
Members of the Faith and Light movement try not only to serve the poor, do something for them, but to stay beside them, to become friends for them.
5 May 2017, 14:05 | Journalistic investigations |
Historical memory or legal rights: Baptists in Volyn struggle for the future of an ancient church
The ruins of the old church in the district center of Rozhische in Volyn have become the subject of controversy between the Protestants and the Orthodox. The temple was built in the nineteenth century by the Baptists, “the Soviets” expropriated and placed manufacturing plants in the church.

3 May 2018, 11:32 | Andrew Sorokowski's column |
Autocephaly in a Nutshell
… the Moscow Patriarchate is busy both in Ukraine and the outside world agitating against such a grant of autocephaly to the UOC-KP and the UAOC, which it regards as schismatic. But its ability to influence world Orthodoxy is limited…
19 March 2018, 14:52 | Comments
The world is thirsty for peace
Oksana Bashuk Hepburn, former director with the Canadian Human Rights Commission and president of a consulting firm dealing with international affairs
1 March 2018, 21:06 | Andrew Sorokowski's column |
Are More Religions Better?
Orthodox competition has increased throughout Ukraine since 2000. But has religiosity increased?

7 July 2016, 13:11 | Religious studies |
Ukrainain Orthodoxy on the eve of Pan-Orthodox Council. Part III
The history evidences: the Local Churches that were historically associated with earthly empires were uninterested in the canonical establishment of local churches under their jurisdictions, and therefore usually granted autocephaly to churches only under the pressure of historic circumstances. No exception is the Moscow Patriarchate, which has incorporated the Orthodox Church in Ukraine since 1686.
5 July 2016, 14:22 | Religious studies |
Ukrainian Orthodoxy: path to recovery of Church unity. Part II
Ukrainian Orthodoxy and Ukrainian society suffer from division. The majority of Ukrainian Orthodox believers belong to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate. The rest of the Orthodox community of Ukraine has chosen a different path of self-proclaimed autocephaly. However, neither the first nor the second path is optimal for the Orthodox Church in Ukraine to date.

Islamic State claims responsibility for church attack in Chechnya | 21 May 2018, 10:10 | Terrorism |
The Head of the UGCC consecrated in Poltava a cornerstone for a joint Autocephalous and Greek Catholic chuch | 20 May 2018, 11:01 | Interchurch relations |
The Head of the UGCC held meeting with the Prime Minister of Ukraine | 17 May 2018, 11:47 | Church-state relations |
Protect life at all costs. The CCEE Presidency's call for peace in the Holy Land | 16 May 2018, 11:18 | World news
Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeev: All the Holy Synod members have supported the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church | 16 May 2018, 11:17 | Inter-Orthodox relations |
President prayed for the future and unity of Ukraine in the Cathedral of Vyshhorod | 16 May 2018, 10:38 | National religious question |
Up to ten our bishops might support the authocephaly, Metropolitan Sofroniy of the UOC (MP) | 15 May 2018, 12:07 | UOC (MP) |
Muslims continually arrested in occupied Crimea | 15 May 2018, 10:28 | Religious intolerance and vandalism |
We count on you, Ukrainians, Secretary General of (CCEE) during his visit to Kyiv | 14 May 2018, 13:36 | UGCC |
Bishop Borys Gudziak awarded with a honorary doctorate of Syracuse University | 14 May 2018, 10:34 | Theology and religious education |
UOC-KP Synod strongly denounces interference of Russia and Kremlin-backed forces in the issue of Ukrainian autocephaly | 13 May 2018, 18:58 | UOC KP |
Russia named responsible for deterioration of religious freedom in annexed Crimea and occupied Donbas | 11 May 2018, 11:28 | International relations |
Ukrainian state does not officially support denial of Holocaust or Nazi glorification, VAAD alleges | 11 May 2018, 11:18 | International relations |
UGCC proclaimed the year of prayer for honest elections of 2019 | 11 May 2018, 10:42 | National religious question |
I’d like to publicly support the idea of Ukrainian Church autocephaly, - Metropolitan Oleksandr (Drabinko) declared his position | 10 May 2018, 12:02 | UOC (MP) |
UOC-KP pray for the health of Patriarch Bartholomew | 10 May 2018, 09:04 | Ecumenical Patriarchate |
Metropolitan Onufriy explained US Ambassador how the unity of Ukrainian Orthodoxy should be restored | 9 May 2018, 10:21 | International relations |
Authorities and heads of Ukrainian Churches participate in “First Minutes of Peace” action | 9 May 2018, 09:11 | National religious question |
First three presidents of Ukraine support idea of independent Orthodox church | 8 May 2018, 13:19 | Church-state relations | |
Local Orthodox Church to complete the cycle of developing independence, religious scholar Oleksandr Sagan believes | 8 May 2018, 09:40 | National religious question |
Archbishop of the UOC-MP explains how a terrorist from Brazil got to their monastery | 8 May 2018, 09:08 | Religion and society |
Local Orthodox Churches are opposed to Ukrainian autocephaly, according to UOC-MP | 7 May 2018, 16:03 | Orthodox world |
Donetsk militants opened fire at a car with a priest | 7 May 2018, 10:23 | Terrorism |
Ukrainian autocephaly is inexpedient – Novynskyy persuaded Polish Metropolitan | 6 May 2018, 13:59 | Religion and policy |
President: Having received the Autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, we will get back to the origins of our history | 6 May 2018, 11:18 | Church-state relations |
The State Of New York Recognized The Holodomor As Genocide Of The Ukrainian People | 4 May 2018, 20:07 | International relations |
Ukrainian Churches call to join on June 2 the All-Ukrainian march for protection of the rights of children and families | 4 May 2018, 10:46 | AUCCRO, inter-confessional councils |
Moscow not to stop imminent recognition of autocephaly of the Ukrainian Church, Patriarch Filaret | 4 May 2018, 10:25 | Orthodox world |
Poroshenko briefs on the progress of negotiations with Bartholomew I regarding the tomos of autocephaly | 4 May 2018, 09:11 | Church-state relations |
Relic claimed to be bone from St Clement rescued from the bin, the Guardian informs | 3 May 2018, 12:34 | World news |
Patriarch Filaret prayed for Ukraine in the European Parliament | 2 May 2018, 12:57 | National religious question |
In the Rivne region vandals desecrated the grave of Rabbi Maharsha | 2 May 2018, 12:53 | Religious intolerance and vandalism |
“Is Patriarch Kirill responsible for deaths in Donbas?” – French historian Antoine Arjakovsky | 2 May 2018, 10:22 | Moscow Patriarchy |
UOC-MP has powerful forces consciously opposed to autocephaly"- Andriy Yurash | 2 May 2018, 09:52 | Church-state relations |
Polish nationalists attack volunteers renewing the ancient Greek Catholic cemetery | 1 May 2018, 10:56 | International relations |
Faithful of the UOC-KP can add their letters among the thousands of petitions on autocephaly to Patriarch Bartholomew | 30 April 2018, 12:00 | UOC KP |
Mission of UGCC today it to testify to church unity around the See of Apostle Peter’s successor, says Head of UGCC | 29 April 2018, 18:07 | UGCC |
Ten years ago we were not ready to autocephaly, but now we are – Ukrainian religious scholar | 29 April 2018, 11:45 | Religion and society |
Russia restricts religious freedom in Crimea | 27 April 2018, 11:38 | International relations |
Moscow Patriarchate will exist in Russia and the Russian exarchate will be present in Ukraine, says Patriarch Filaret | 27 April 2018, 09:27 | Interchurch relations |

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21 May 2018, 12:18 | Society-digest
Why Ukraine needs a free and recognized Orthodox Church
Archimandrite Cyril Hovorun, Acting Director of Huffington Ecumenical Institute, Assistant Professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, former Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church talks about the prospects of Ukraine getting its very own Church and what it would mean.
13 May 2018, 21:14 | Society-digest |
Putin’s ‘Russian World’: Children taught war and violently detained for daring to protest
Ukrainian commentator Pavlo Kazarin says that Russia has turned the ‘Great Patriotic War ‘(1941-1945) into a religion, and like all religions, there are canonical beliefs which one cannot deviate from without being condemned as a heretic.
10 May 2018, 17:37 | Society-digest |
FREEDOM IS NEVER FREE
To sit in a downtown restaurant and speak with the city’s mayor about his plans for further development, it’s easy to forget that you’re in a country at war. But then you come to the Garrison Church of Sts. Peter and Paul.
4 May 2018, 20:15 | Society-digest
The Reasons to Proclaim or to Restore Autocephaly in the 20th and 21st centuries
...another Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church is definitely needed not only to approve the document on “Autocephaly and the way of its proclamation”, but also to clarify and define the specific reasons to proclaim or restore autocephaly, as well as to confirm in a conciliar way the autocephalies proclaimed in the 20th century and to resolve the on-going ecclesiastical crisis in Ukraine, in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia or in Montenegro.
4 May 2018, 20:11 | Society-digest
Bishop urges Catholic groups to renege after they signed Trudeau’s pro-abortion pledge
On Tuesday, the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Toronto and Eastern Canada released a statement by Bishop Stephen Chmilar expressing how “deeply saddened” he was by the “discrimination” of the program’s “new ideological requirements.”

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