2 March 2010, 14:54 | Analytic | 

Is there a chance for a single Orthodox Church in the future of Ukraine?

If to characterize the situation of Orthodoxy in Ukraine, then it can be expressed with the help of the phrase: “Today everything is possible.” This expression also needs to be explained.

24 February 2010, 15:09 | Viktor Yelenskyi's column | 

Religion and the Church in Ukraine: beginning of the year 2010

In a month and half into the year 2010 many events occurred in the religious life of Ukraine that deserve thorough, unhurried analyses.

8 February 2010, 14:04 | Interview | 

Director of RISU Taras Antoshevskyy: “The churches are beginning to treat the mass media more constructively”

February 1 marked 9 years of existence of the Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU). Today it is one of the main sources of information about religious life in Ukraine.

4 January 2010, 15:43 | Interview | 

“It is important to realize that what is happening, not on the sacramental level, but on the social-religious level, heavily depends on what is happening in the country overall, especially in the political sphere.”

Interview with Viktor Yelenskyj, doctor of philosophy, religious studies expert, publicist, member of RISU’s expert council

30 December 2009, 15:21 | Analytic | 

Characteristics of Development of Inter-Confessional Relations in Ukraine

To research the dynamics of inter-confessional relations in Ukraine observers increasingly scrutinize the situation with the help of certain classifications.

23 December 2009, 14:38 | Interview | 

"For 15 years the Light House exists thanks to support from the community. And this is a declaration that Ukraine still lives."

Interview with Salesian Deacon Oleksandr Chumakov, founder and head of the Odesa charitable orphanage Light House.

1 October 2009, 12:23 | Interview | 

“I would like in ten years for Ukraine to already have a unified national church!”

Interview with Bishop MAKARII (Meletych), Archbishop of Lviv of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, on the affairs of the UAOC, its relations with the Ecumenical Patriarchate, and inter-Orthodox relations in Ukraine.

29 August 2009, 19:54 | Interview | 

“The Argument that Autocephaly in Ukraine is Impossible Because Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus Constitute One Indivisible Spiritual Space Is Powerless if We Take into Account the History and Modern System of the Orthodox Church”

To deny the primacy of the Ecumenical Patriarchate actually means to deny the canonical decrees of the Ecumenical Councils and the Holy Scripture.

17 August 2009, 23:58 | Analytic | 

The Theology of Patriarch Kirill: the Ukrainian dimension

10 August 2009, 15:46 | Analytic | 

Legal-Religious Reflections on the Religious-Political Visit

Most commentators and experts agree that Patriarch Kirill’s first visit to Ukraine carried an obvious political character.

7 August 2009, 19:01 | Interview | 

“The patriarch gave the Ukrainian society one of the strongest reintegration messages in all of the history of independent Ukraine”

Interview with Viktor YELENSKYJ, prof. of philosophy, religious studies, publicist, member of expert council of RISU

7 August 2009, 15:52 | Comments | 

Who Did Patriarch Kirill Come to Visit in Ukraine?

Bishop IHOR (Isichenko), Archbishop of Kharkiv and Poltava of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC)

30 June 2009, 10:41 | Interview | 

“The Patriarch stresses that the visit has no political or state agenda”

Interview with archpriest Heorhij KOVALENKO, press secretary of the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, head of the synod division “Mission of Spiritual Enlightenment” of the UOC, head of the press service of Moscow Patriarch Kirill’s visit to Ukraine.

15 May 2009, 14:42 | Comments | 

"I personally bow before Hetman Ivan Mazepa, and regard him as one of the most significant figures in Ukraine’s history"

Archbishop SOFRONII (Dmytruk) of Cherkasy and Kaniv of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate

5 May 2009, 18:09 | Interview | 

“I think that when talking about religious themes on TV, preference should be given to the creation of a separate theme-based channel”

Interview with Bohdan BATRUKH, director of B&H Film Distribution and Consulting, official distributor of United International Pictures, Paramount, Dream Works, Walt Dіsney, owner of Kinopalats network.

7 April 2009, 20:23 | Analytic

Specificities of Religiousness in the Population of Ukraine

The period from Ukraine’s independence to the present is characterized by a booming development in the institutional structure of various religious trends.

27 March 2009, 14:19 | Interview | 

“The Church follows God’s principles and Christ’s example. Why shouldn’t its values be spread to all spheres of a society?”

Interview with Julia DOXAT-PURSER, a former representative of the European Evangelical Alliance (EEA) affiliated with the Euro commission

13 March 2009, 10:37 | Archive of web-conference | 

“Interdenominational relations in Ukraine can serve as an examplar for the whole post-soviet domain”

Guest: Anatolii KOZACHOK, a bishop’s assistant to an Evangelical Christians in Ukraine (Pentecostal) bishop in Kyiv, a pastor of the “Philadelphia” church

18 February 2009, 16:35 | Interview | 

“The Ukrainian wooden church has no analogues in European and world art “

Interview with Borys VOZNYTSKYI, director of the Lviv Art Gallery, talks about the fate of Ukraine’s wooden churches.

28 January 2009, 17:29 | Interview | 

“I have observed the ecumenical processes in Ukraine for a few years now and can confidently say that they have become more intensive each year.”

Oleh KISELIOV is a Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, the secretary of academics at the Department of Religious Studies at H. Skovoroda’s Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine