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  • 29 February 2012, 16:40 | Journalistic investigations | 

    Jewish Community Asks Ternopil Authorities to Return Prayer House

    Our RISU correspondent talked to the Head of the Ternopil town and regional Jewish organizations, Ihor Banzeruk.

  • 5 January 2012, 12:53 | Holidays and Customs | 

    Ukrainian Christmas traditions

    Among the Ukrainians, the most beloved of all festivities is Christmas which covers a cycle of important fest days, centering around family and agricultural modes of life, is very colourful, being the most important part of Christmas.

  • 11 November 2011, 15:42 | Events & people | 

    ‘With God in prison there is no prison’

    A former prisoner talks about conversion in prisons

  • 3 November 2011, 10:00 | Reports | 

    Christian physicians’ conference gathers over 400 participants from 20 countries

    Questions participants discussed at the international Christian scientific and practical conference that took place in Ternopil on October 29-30. It was attended by over 400 delegates, including medical students from Ukraine and foreigners who are studying in Ukraine, as well as speakers from the UK, USA, Canada, Netherlands, Serbia, Russia and Poland.

  • 20 October 2011, 10:20 | Reports | 

    Marketsquare Europe – 2011 opened Ukraine to European Christian Publishers

    For the first time Ukraine hosted the European Forum of Christian Book Publishers and Booksellers Marketsquare Europe 2011. These professional meetings are held annually in different countries of Europe at the time of the International Book Fair in Frankfurt. Participants in this year’s forum, held in Irpin near Kyiv, were publishers and booksellers from Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Moldova, Hungary, Poland, France, Great Britain and the United States.

  • 8 October 2011, 14:46 | Reports | 

    4th Ecumenical Social Week: End of Discussion, Start of Action

    During the fourth Ecumenical Social Week (September 27-October 2, 2011) participants were able to not only participate in conference discussions but also work practically in thematic roundtables. Representatives of regional councils from western Ukrainian oblasts took part in the discussion “Community Councils and Executive Bodies: An Effective Partnership.”

  • 13 September 2011, 11:24 | Reports | view photo | view video | 

    The monument to “Heroes of the Faith, ”the Christians who perished for the faith during the Soviet repressions" in Odessa

    On 11 September, in Odesa, the monument to “Heroes of the Faith, ”the Christians who perished for the faith during the Soviet repressions of the 20th c. was officially opened as part of the celebration of the 90th anniversary of the Pentecostal revival in the countries of the former USSR and the 20th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence.

  • 5 August 2011, 16:28 | Reports | 

    Finnish Bus4life traveled through Ukraine

    For over two weeks the Finnish Christian mission Operation Mobilization traveled through Ukrainian towns and villages on the Bus4life, a mobile bookstore.

  • 28 April 2011, 13:56 | Reports | 

    Orthodox priest founded skydiving club for children

    A priest from Pohrebyshche, Vinnytsia Oblast, organized a school for parachuting. He recruits children. First, together with instructors from the Parachute Unit of the Vinnytsia Aviation Club, he teaches them the theory, then the children go through practical training, and finally, they skydive.

  • 16 March 2011, 11:30 | Events & people | 

    Symeon Lukach Martyr of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

    Later, as a priest in the village of Liadske Shliakhotske near Tlumach (now, Ivano-Frankivsk Region), in 1920, he was appointed a teacher in his native Stanislaviv Seminary, where he worked until April, 1945.

  • 8 March 2011, 14:32 | Holidays and Customs | 

    Lent as our gift to God

    On Monday, the Orthodox Christians started the Lent which will last for seven weeks. What is a fast, why is it observed and how should one do it?

  • 13 January 2011, 13:38 | Journalistic investigations | 

    For years Basilians in Ternopil have tried to gain control of monastery

    The budget for the Ternopil Oblast for 2011 does not include funds needed to repair buildings of the Berezhanskyi neuropsychiatric boarding school in the village Krasnopushcha and to transfer of the children of this institution from the building of the Basilian Fathers Monastery.

  • 2 December 2010, 13:24 | Kaleidoscope | 

    Cartoon About Ukrainian Churches

    A cartoon series “Spiritual necklace” is about the legendary shrines of Ukraine: churches, chapels, monasteries and other religious buildings. First editions of the series deal with the churches of Lviv which constitutes probably the biggest architectural heritage of Ukraine.

  • 16 November 2010, 14:09 | Reports | 

    Media Mobolization Gathered Christian Journalists from All Over Ukraine

    The Media Mobilization conference of journalists, bloggers, Internet activists, and workers of church press services has come to an end. The number of participants was twofold of what the organizers’ expected: instead of 120 delegates, over 200 people came to the conference. And not only Ukrainians showed interested in this event – participants from Russia, Germany, and Kazakhstan joined the conference.

  • 20 September 2010, 01:15 | Reports | 

    Religious literature was presented on Lviv's Forum of Publishers

    At this year’s Forum of Publishers, which was held in Lviv from 16 to 19 September, religious literature was duly represented among other editions. It was primarily thanks to “Svichado” Publishers who drew the attention of the whole Ukraine to its new edition, a book “Sex which you do not know. For God-loving married couples by a capuchin monk from Poland, Ksaverii Knots. The author of the sensational new edition became an honorary guest of the Forum of Publishers and talked to a full house at his presentation. But the religious literature was duly presented at the forum not only by “Svichado.” Natalia YURAKH prepared a review of religious publishing houses which participated in the forum.

  • 31 August 2010, 11:46 | Reports | view photo | 

    Pilgrimage to Univ Monastery: Prayer for Ukraine

    This year, a walking pilgrimage to the Univ Monastery of the Holy Assumption of UGCC was conducted under the motto "Prayer for Ukraine: Holy Mother of God, Save Us!"

  • 16 August 2010, 10:44 | Reports | view photo | 

    “To Be Like You”: The International Redemptorist Youth Congress in Lviv

    This year the 8th International Redemptorist Youth Congress took place for the first time in Lviv. The organizer was the Lviv Province of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer.

  • 16 August 2010, 10:12 | Review | 

    Events Digest: First Half of August

    In contrast to the end of July, which was clearly dominated by the topic of Orthodoxy due to the visit of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, the first half of August, although not as rich in events and commentaries, saw several diverse events.

  • 23 June 2010, 16:23 | Events & people | 

    “I Don’t Think of Icons Because All the Saints I Find in Books and Encyclopedias…”

    For the centenarian Father Dmytro Blazheiovskyi vigorousness is a lifestyle. Even at his age, he travels the world, writes books, recently started using a computer, grows his own vegetables, and cooks.

  • 26 April 2010, 17:24 | Reports | 

    Ukraine’s Oldest Lutheran Church Re-opens in Odesa

    After nearly a century, one of the oldest Evangelical Lutheran churches of Ukraine re-opened its doors for parishioners.

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