Participants of Interreligious Roundtable Support Optional Religious Education Classes | 23 May 2012, 10:23 | Religion and society | 

Patriarch Filaret: Independent Ukraine Not Possible Without Independent Church | 22 May 2012, 11:51 | Church-state relations | 

Patriarch Filaret: UOC-MP Keeps Faithful By Deceit | 22 May 2012, 09:28 | Inter-Orthodox relations | 

20 May 2012, 15:18 | Andrew Sorokowski's column

Pride and Propaganda

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 | 

“Besides heaven, this is the only place where I would want to be.” The Witness of the Greek Catholic Priest-Martyr of Majdanek Blessed Omelian Kovch

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 | 

Questioning “FEMEN”

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.