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  • 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.”

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

    FOUR ISLAMIC LIONS ON THE CRIMEAN SAVANNA

    A Review of Trends in Contemporary Islam in the Crimea

  • 13 October 2011, 18:51 | Analysis | 

    Putinism and the Ukrainian Catholic Church

    The Eastern Churches bear an aspect of the Christian faith that is profound and astonishingly rich, with the power to amaze a culture that wrongly presumes it has seen it all. I also believe our culture is in urgent need of the vast treasure and deep beauty that have been entrusted to these Churches.

  • 1 August 2011, 11:51 | Analysis | 

    Public attention to Patriarch Kirill’s visits to Ukraine decreases

  • 27 May 2011, 19:03 | Analysis | 

    The Council of Europe’s Requirements for Ukraine’s Legislation on Religious Freedom: Between Truth and Falsehood

    The example of many post-Soviet countries shows that the adoption of a new law on religious freedom poses considerable risks to religious freedom.

  • 1 March 2011, 14:49 | Analysis | 

    Religion of the ’00s: A Summary of the Decade

    The beginning of the third millennium of the year of our Lord (like the beginning of the second millennium) was preceded by the failure of doomsday prophecies that on the eve of 2000 proliferated at an impressive rate.

  • 17 December 2010, 14:13 | Analysis | 

    Review of Interdenominational Councils in Ukraine in 2010

    The year 2010 in Ukraine was filled with social and political events: presidential elections, the formation of a new government, new priorities in foreign and domestic policy, disorientation of the opposition, human rights and student protests, changes in the justice system, the return to Ukraine's 1996 Constitution, local elections, small- and medium-sized businesses’s protests against the Tax Code, new government legislative initiatives, administrative reform, and more.

  • 13 December 2010, 16:12 | Analysis | 

    Quasi-religious Favouritism

    Favoritism is also quite simply morally unacceptable. Any Church or religion which accepts material and other benefits from the State, becoming thus complicit in the violation of others’ constitutional rights, would be well advised to remember Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness.

  • 16 Jule 2010, 15:31 | Analysis | 

    Religious Freedom in Ukraine in 2010

    Ukraine is one of the world leaders to respect religious freedom, said Yurii Reshetnikov, the Chairman (now former Chairman) of the State Committee on Nationalities and Religions at the beginning of this year.

  • 2 March 2010, 14:54 | Analysis | 

    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.

  • 30 December 2009, 15:21 | Analysis | 

    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.

  • 17 August 2009, 23:58 | Analysis | 

    The Theology of Patriarch Kirill: the Ukrainian dimension

  • 10 August 2009, 15:46 | Analysis | 

    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 May 2009, 15:16 | Analysis | 

    Will Yurii Reshetnikov Defend Freedom from Religions?

    Recently, someone who is sincerely committed to the ideals of religious freedom was appointed head of the State Department of Ukraine on Matters of State-Confessional Relations for the first time in the history of the Department. But will the new director, Yurii Reshetnikov, be able to uproot the supervisory-repressive spirit of this body, which can be traced back to the position of the Chief Procurator of the Holy Synod at the time of the Russian Empire, and which is a direct successor of the Council on Matters of the Russian Orthodox Church (later, Council on Matters of Religions attached to the Council of Ministers of USSR) that was established by the general of MGB, Georgii Karpov?

  • 22 April 2009, 12:15 | Analysis | 

    Ukrainian religious stereotypes and their impact on the processes of cultural identification of contemporary Ukrainians: the European and alternative vectors

    The reality is that the society in which we live is chock-full of stereotypes – ethnic, political, gender, age, cultural, linguistic, religious – that prevent collective as well as individual subjects from acquiring new identities.

  • 7 April 2009, 20:23 | Analysis

    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.

  • 22 September 2008, 13:53 | Analysis | 

    “Alternative education in Ukraine: Ideological, conceptual and legal aspects”

    Liudmyla FYLYPOVYCH, doctor of philosophy, head of the Department of Religious Processes in Ukraine at the Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

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