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Evangelical Protestant Leaders To Discuss Media Campaign Against Their Churches
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3 February 2012, 14:55 | Freedom of Conscience | First Prison Mosque Opened in Kharkiv Oblast on Eve of Mawlid Al-Nabi | 3 February 2012, 10:43 | Religion and society |
Graduate and Doctoral Study Courses to Be Opened at Ukrainian Catholic University | 3 February 2012, 09:31 | Theology and religious education |
Politician Compares Dismissal of Museum Directors to Purges of 1917 | 2 February 2012, 14:51 | Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritance |
Ministry of Culture To Change Law on Freedom of Worship | 2 February 2012, 13:41 | Authorities Religious Affairs |
Expert opinions
23 January 2012, 11:36 | Interview |
Archbishop Thomas Edward Gullickson: I want to become a saint
The new Apostolic Nuncio in Ukraine, Archbishop Thomas Gullickson has been in our country for only a few months. He presented his credentials to the President of Ukraine in November 2011. Our publication spoke with the Vatican ambassador about his impressions of Ukraine and local church life.
17 January 2012, 00:10 | Andrew Sorokowski's column |
Ukraine is well acquainted with the old type of colonialism, projected by an imperial state onto a subject population. But today, it may be the object of a new type as well – one practiced not by an alien nation-state, but by a transnational socio-economic and ideological elite.
25 December 2011, 17:41 | M |
On the Birth of Christ and the Fall of the USSR
Christmas is also a judgment on modern Pharisees, pillars of official religiosity. A baptized, but unenlightened Rus, needs a free unpoliticized Church. While the Church and the Kremlin develop the Russian world, Christ does not enter their doors. He is outside the lavish palaces, but with the people.
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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
Holidays and Customs
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.
8 March 2011, 14:32 | Holidays and Customs |
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, 19:28 | Religious holidays and traditions |
Feast of Circumcision of Our Lord celebrated
The churches that follow the Julian Calendar mark the feasts of Circumcision of the Lord and the Holy Name of Jesus on January 14. On the same day, they commemorate one of the church fathers, St. Basil the Great.
7 September 2007, 15:43 | Holidays and Customs |
Oleksandr KOZLOVSKYI (Ukrinform) and Archimandrite YEVSTRATII (Zoria) of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate (UOC-KP) talk about the liturgical year and the significance of holy days in the life of Christians.
20 January 2005, 18:21 | Holidays and Customs |
Crimean Tatars Celebrate Kurban-Bairam
“On January 20 the whole Muslim world is celebrating the Holiday of Sacrifice. The Crimean Tatars name this holiday Kurban-Bairam,” Elzara Abdurmanova writes .