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New UGCC Catechism “Christ Is Our Easter” presented in Rome | 8 February 2012, 17:28 | UGCC |
Metropolitan Volodymyr Reserves Right To Head Kyivan Metropolitanate of UOC | 8 February 2012, 11:46 | UOC (MP)
Ukraine's President Greets Pope Benedict XVI on Anniversary of Establishment of Diplomatic Relations | 8 February 2012, 09:54 | Apostolic Nunciatura |
Apostolic Nuncio to Ukraine Visits Ukrainian Catholic University
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7 February 2012, 16:13 | Apostolic Nunciatura |
| Council of UAOC to Pass Decision on Possible Dialogue on Unification with Kyivan Patriarchate
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7 February 2012, 12:38 | Inter-Orthodox relations |
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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.
Monitoring
Chicago area churches hold Prayer Vigil for Life | 26 January 2012, 13:05 | Religious-digest |
Holy New Martyr Vladimir, Metropolitan of Kiev (+ 1918) | 26 January 2012, 12:51 | Kaleidoscope-digest |
A first for Canada | 23 January 2012, 11:10 | Society-digest |
Most Popular Articles month
12 January 2012, 17:14 | UOC (MP) | 13 January 2012, 13:50
Metropolitan Sofronii of Cherkasy: Metropolitan Ahafangel Has No Chance To Head UOC-MP
30 January 2012, 15:59 | Interchurch relations | 2 February 2012, 09:05
Patriarch Kirill says his meeting with Pope is not possible yet
26 January 2012, 13:47 | Scandals, crime | 27 January 2012, 11:54
Experts Comment on Replacement of Heads of Most Significant Cultural Institutions
11 January 2012, 10:57 | Religion and society | 12 January 2012, 11:03
Christian Organizations Call on Ukrainians to Conduct National Prayer on January 22
4 February 2012, 11:43 | UOC KP | 6 February 2012, 17:23
Patriarch Filaret Against Transfer of Pochayiv and Kyiv Cave Monasteries to Russian Church.
Analysis
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 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 |
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 |
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 |
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
20 Jule 2008, 20:23 | Analysis |
The Year of the Great Jubilee [1020th Anniversary of the Baptism of Kyivan Rus]
Yurii CHORNOMORETS, Candidate of Philosophical Science.
16 May 2007, 17:02 | Analysis |
Yurii RESHETNIKOV,candidate of philosophical studies, Institute of Christian Democracy
2 February 2006, 11:52 | Analysis |
Maxim VASIN, expert on legal questions at the Institute of Religious Freedom, master of law
25 January 2006, 13:16 | Analysis |
The Experience of Protestant Churches in Establishing General Education Schools
Yurii RESHETNIKOV, Candidate of Philosophical Studies