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23 May 2012, 10:23 | Religion and society | Patriarch Filaret: Independent Ukraine Not Possible Without Independent Church
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22 May 2012, 11:51 | Church-state relations | Patriarch Filaret: UOC-MP Keeps Faithful By Deceit
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20 May 2012, 15:18 | Andrew Sorokowski's column
On March 30, 2012 Party of Regions deputy Vadym Kolesnychenko introduced a bill in the Ukrainian parliament prohibiting homosexual “propaganda” aimed at minors.
11 May 2012, 15:27 | Analysis |
Fr. Omelian Kovch died 25 March 1944, three months before the liberation of the Majdanek camp 23 July 1944. Some 80,000 people were killed in the camp over 34 months including about 59,000 Jews. Blessed Omelian Kovch was for many prisoners their pastor. Today he bears the title “Pastor of Majdanek.” 9 January 1999 The Jewish Council of Ukraine proclaimed him a “Righteous of Ukraine.”
22 April 2012, 11:09 | Andrew Sorokowski's column |
On Tuesday, April 10 – in the midst of the Eastern Christian Holy Week leading up to Easter – five members of the women’s group FEMEN suspended a seven-meter-long banner reading “Stop” from the belfry of Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv. The messagesignified their opposition to draft law No. 10170, which would overturn Ukraine’s rather permissive law on abortion and substitute a more restrictive one. The letter “t” in the English word “Stop” was written in the form of an Eastern Christian cross.
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Religious Studies
23 November 2011, 17:09 | Religious studies |
FOUR ISLAMIC LIONS ON THE CRIMEAN SAVANNA
A Review of Trends in Contemporary Islam in the Crimea
Events & people
11 November 2011, 15:42 | Events & people |
‘With God in prison there is no prison’
A former prisoner talks about conversion in prisons
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.
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.
4 June 2008, 15:50 | Events & people |
A cardinal and prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, Wladyslaw Rubin (1917-1990), is little known in Ukraine. No books were written about him here, no TV or radio programs were made. During Soviet rule he was forgotten on purpose, and at the time of independent Ukraine, very few people are left who remember him. RISU's Ukrainian-language site posted the original of this text on 4 June 2008.
6 May 2008, 16:22 | Events & people |
| "If God gives you some talent, you have an obligation to use it."
Artist Volodymyr Svietlohorskyi, official iconographer of the Old Believers’ Eparchy in Ukraine, speaks with Yurii CHORNEI, RISU’s correspondent in southwestern Ukraine’s Chernivtsi Region.
7 August 2007, 15:26 | Events & people |
Bohdan DEMBORYNSKYI, a resident of Ternopil who disseminates around town religious messages such as “Eternity is Coming Soon,” agreed to comment on the reasons for his religious campaign to RISU correspondent Volodymyr Moroz.
20 June 2007, 14:46 | Events & people |
"I wish all scouts of Ukraine to be courageous on their path to sanctity."
An interview with Fr. Serhii KRUTOVSKYI, national chaplain in Ukraine for the Catholic Scouts of Europe
5 January 2005, 13:08 | Events & people |
Ukraine’s Baptists Celebrate Christmas
Pastor Yurii Reshetnikov tells about the celebration of Christmas by Baptist communities in Ukraine.
1 March 2004, 11:31 | Events & people |
| 500 Folk Icons from a Private Collection
It took 12 years for Mykola Babak, a painter, writer and collector from central Ukrainian Cherkasy to gather, at his own expense, a unique 500-item collection of Ukrainian folk icons of the central Dnieper region of the 17th to19th centuries. The painter recently transferred the collection to the Cherkasy Art Museum for a permanent exhibit.