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  • 24 January 2012, 14:35 | Religious relations

    Kazakhstan denies persecution of Orthodox Christians

    Kazakhstan claimed that its Orthodox Christian community enjoys equal rights and that the country is a land of "ethnic and religious harmony", Interfax-religion informs.

  • 17 August 2011, 15:37 | Religious ceremonies and pilgrimage | view photo | 

    Memorial to Ukrainian, Polish and Jewish town defenders unveiled in Sataniv

    On 16 August, in the ancient settlement of Sataniv of Horodok District of Khmelnytskyi region, at the town’s medieval gate, a memorial sign “In memory of all the defenders of Sataniv” has been installed in honor of representatives of the three largest local communities.

  • 4 August 2011, 11:29 | Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritance | 

    Synagogue in Sataniv endangered

    Orthodox and Roman Catholic priests, public figures, cultural and regional experts, and representatives of the authorities have sounded an alarm on the catastrophic condition of an outstanding architectural monument of Podillia, the fortified synagogue in Sataniv.

  • 3 August 2011, 16:32 | Freedom of Conscience | 

    Religious Events Prohibited in Center of Sumy

    At the session of the Executive Committee of the Sumy City Council on August 2, a list of places was compiled where public events of religious educational character are prohibited.

  • 21 Jule 2011, 16:53 | Religious relations | 

    UGCC head: We have to fight not against Islam but for strong Christianity

    “We have to fight not against Islam but for strong Christianity,” said the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Sviatoslav (Shevchuk), in an interview with RISU, stressing that the so-called Islamic threat against Christianity, especially in Ukraine, “is not as much an external question as it is an internal one.”

  • 9 March 2011, 14:46 | Religious relations | 

    Lviv mayor meets with heads of religious denominations

    Among the important issues discussed was cooperation with the authorities in the social sphere. The representatives of the denominations advanced an initiative to establish a Council of Churches in Lviv, which was supported by the mayor.

  • 24 September 2010, 09:24 | National religious question | 

    Orthodox (UOC-MP) Bishop Calls for Repentance for "Ethnocide of Jews under Khmelnytskyi"

    Archbishop Ionafan (Yeletskyh) of Tulchyn and Bratslav of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP)addressed his flock with an official call to repent. The address reads that the reason for repentance is "the mass ethnocide of Jews under Hetman of Ukraine Bohdan Khmelnytskyi." "In Soviet times, this theme was prohibited. It is not found in school textbooks even now. But the Jewish chronicles of that sad time call out to heaven about these little known black spots of Ukrainian history," reads the address of the bishop.

  • 20 September 2010, 12:44 | Religious intolerance and vandalism | 

    Ukrainian Political Studies Expert: Security Service Should Check Activity of Orthodox Camp

    A Ukrainian political studies expert, Oleksii Haran, stated that the Security Service of Ukraine should check the activity of the Orthodox camp Crimea-Sich [Host]. He stressed that there are serious grounds to believe that "it involves attempts to stir up inter-ethnic and inter-religious conflicts in Crimea."

  • 3 August 2010, 15:08 | Religious relations

    Polish, Ukrainian, and Israeli Youth: Neighbors for Better or for Worse Responsible for the Future

    The Arc-2010 International Interreligious Youth Seminar is taking place in the Univ Studite Monastery (Western Ukraine). It is the 5th such meeting where young people from different parts of Ukraine, Poland, and Israel come together,

  • 2 Jule 2010, 13:00 | Religious relations | 

    Deputies of Knesset of Israel Met with Heads of Ukrainian Churches

    Deputies of the Knesset (Parliament) of Israel met with the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate, Patriarch Filaret on June 29 and the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Patriarch Lubomyr on June 30.

  • 27 April 2010, 14:04 | UOC (MP) | 

    Head of UOC-MP Called Religious Leaders to Jointly Oppose Secularism and Terrorism

    The address of its head, Metropolitan Volodymyr, to the World Summit of Religious Leaders held in Baku on April 26, 2010. Please see the text below.

  • 14 April 2010, 17:33 | Religious relations | 

    UOC-MP Chose Representative for World Summit of Religious Leaders

    At the World Summit of Religious Leaders on April 26-27, 2010, in Baku, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate will be represented by Metropolitan Lazar of Simferopol and Crimea.

  • 30 November 2009, 16:14 | News | 

    Inter-Confessional Prayer for Victims of Holodomor Conducted in Kyiv

    On the Day of Remembrance of Holodomor Victims a joint inter-confessional prayer for the victims of the Holodomor genocidal famine was conducted in the St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv.

  • 25 March 2011, 12:43 | Religious relations | 

    Rabbi of Messianic Jewish community preaches in Roman Catholic Cathedral in Kyiv

    The rabbi of the Kyiv Messianic Jewish community, Borys Hrysenko, on the invitation of Bishop Stanislav Shyrokorodiuk, preached at an evening service at St. Alexander’s Cathedral of the Roman Catholic Church on March 20. Approximately 1,000 people were present at the service, reports our RISU correspondent, Yulia Dolmatova.