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  • 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.

  • 24 March 2012, 17:01 | Analysis | 

    Religion, the Diaspora, and the U.S. Presidential Election

    Among the many forms of public discourse in the U.S. is the bumper sticker. In a mobile society rich in automobiles but poor in opportunities for reasoned discussion, one way that people express their views on politics, religion, and even philosophy is the message or symbol that they display on the backs of their cars, on or near the rear bumper.

  • 22 March 2012, 09:20 | Viktor Yelenskyi's column | 

    Research & Branding Fake

    The reasons of the rather unique “research focus” become clear very quickly – as soon as the survey authors begin asking questions about ownership, which they have carefully saved to the end.

  • 20 March 2012, 09:54 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

    Was the Church a source of fascism?

    According to one report, in his March 1 talk about Stepan Bandera at the German embassy in Kyiv, Polish-born German historian Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe placed special emphasis on the “active and direct participation of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in support of the OUN-UPA, precisely as a movement with a pro-fascist ideology.” He even called it “a source of Ukrainian fascism.” Could this be so?

  • 21 February 2012, 15:57 | Interview | 

    Jason Ferenczi: Evangelicals in Ukraine don’t need to hide in their little communities

    Vice President of International Partnerships of the Overseas Council Jason Ferenczi, who oversees consulting and grantmaking to a network of approximately 200 theological schools in Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Latin America, shares his thoughts on the situation of Evangelical Christians in post-Soviet countries, perspectives of theological institutions and the question of leadership.

  • 20 February 2012, 16:45 | Analysis | 

    Overview of church-state relations in Ukraine in 2011

    The year 2011 in Ukraine was rich in events in the area of church-state relations. In the development of relations between the state and the denominations, this year was dynamic, complex, somewhat contradictory, but ultimately positive.

  • 20 February 2012, 14:00 | Comments | 

    Through A Glass Darkly

    Cultures, which are necessarily rooted in family and custom, are bearers of the Good News.

  • 18 February 2012, 09:39 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

    Beyond Identity

    Ever since the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council (1962-1965), the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church has been concerned with restoring its “Eastern” identity – or more properly, its Kyivan-Byzantine identity. The Decree on the Eastern Catholic Churches (1964) called upon Eastern Catholics to “preserve their legitimateliturgical rite and their established way of life,” to“attain to an ever greater knowledge and a more exact use of them” and, if needed, “take steps to return to their ancestral traditions”

  • 13 February 2012, 16:19 | Analysis | 

    Attempts being made in UOC-MP to remove Metropolitan Volodymyr from power

    The decision of the Holy Synod of January 28, 2012, was reminiscent of two historical events of 1991 and 1992, namely, the attempt to seize power in the USSR by the State Committee on the State of Emergency (in Russian GKCP) and the removal of Patriarch Mstyslav from power in the UAOC. With the GKCP of Synodal “putschers” unites the way to get power – conspiracy and usurpation of power in a pseudo-legal way. The events of the church “June Coup” in 1992 are similar to the events of the Synodal “majority” in their model.

  • 7 February 2012, 13:24 | Interview

    Scott Cunningham: The main issues for theological institutions are financial sustainability and organizational change

    About the financial sustainability and other challenges of theological institutions we speak with the dean of Leadership Development of the Overseas Council Scott Cunningham.

  • 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 | 

    The New Colonialism

    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.

  • 23 December 2011, 14:51 | Society-digest | 

    “Yosyp Slipy was as farsighted as Andrei Sheptytsky”

    Private Secretary of the Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church on the Patriarch and the current religious situation

  • 18 December 2011, 08:41 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

    Are we in a post-secular age?

    “Much of modernity is predicated on an antagonistic relationship between the sacred and the secular. We are proposing that we can move beyond that hostility. We are in a post-secular age now where people are yearning for a sense of meaning. It’s a pilgrimage, with few set answers.”

  • 15 December 2011, 11:40 | Society-digest | 

    Rev. Heorhii KOVALENKO: Churches must cooperate, for the sake of serving your neighbor

    This time around the guest of My Word is press secretary for the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Archpriest Heorhii KOVALENKO. Although the column is meant for interconfessional interviews, covering a range of issues important for the believers of all churches (and even non-believers), politics also was present here to a certain extent.

  • 23 November 2011, 17:09 | Religious studies | 

    FOUR ISLAMIC LIONS ON THE CRIMEAN SAVANNA

    A Review of Trends in Contemporary Islam in the Crimea

  • 16 November 2011, 16:37 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

    Two Visions Of East Slavic Christendom

    Why is the Moscow Patriarchate concerned by the structural development of the UGCC? There are several possible interpretations.

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