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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

3 October 2008, 13:29 | Interview | 

“I am not sure that the work of a narrow circle of scholars can change or even replace inter-denominational dialogue as such.”

An interview with Volodymyr BUREHA, holder of a candidate’s degree in theology, a church historian, one of the editors of the popular scholarly Internet portal Bohoslov.ru

15 September 2008, 11:37 | Interview | 

“It is a general education institution, where all the educational standards should be observed and math or geography lessons are not substituted by catechism”

Interview with the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church’s Bureau for Contacts with State Authorities, Fr. Roman NEBOZHUK.

5 September 2008, 14:46 | Interview | 

“This is the first such step in the history of Ukraine that the religious community and the Ministry of Education and Research have taken towards one another.”

An interview with Yurii RESHETNIKOV, with a candidate’s degree in philosophy, assistant and counselor of a national deputy of Ukraine, member of the Board of Directors of the Ukrainian Association of Religious Freedom

26 Jule 2008, 16:18 | Interview | 

If the Patriarchate of Constantinople can propose a realistic model.. then our church.. is prepared to make concessions

Interview with Bishop YEVSTRATIJ (Zoria), head of the Information-Publishing Department of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate (UOC-KP)

12 June 2008, 10:03 | Interview | 

“It is usually easier to spend some time for God’s work and then rest after work. There is no such a thing in a family. One should serve round the clock here.”

Interview with Auxiliary Bishop of Kyiv and Zhytomyr of the Roman Catholic Church, Stanislav SHYROKORADIUK

28 May 2008, 13:39 | Interview | 

“Church journalism is ordinary journalism. That’s what I’m trying to prove to everybody, but nobody listens to me.”

Interview with Vasyl Anisimov, the head of the press service of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP).

1 May 2008, 10:42 | Interview | 

“Now the church is the only institution that is systematically interested …in studying the nature of the media”

Interview with Fr. Artur KOLODZIEJCZYK SJ, media programs director of the European Center of Communication and Culture (Warsaw, Poland).

25 March 2008, 11:00 | Interview | 

“It took a lot of time and effort to convince the government and educators that theology was worthy of study at the university level.”

Interview with Dr. Taras DOBKO, first vice-rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University.

13 March 2008, 16:57 | Interview | 

"The church can find ways of affecting both political life and the state itself without replacing the state or society"

Interview with Yurii PIDLISNYI, head of the UGCC’s Committee on Matters of the Laity