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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.
Interview
7 February 2012, 13:24 | Interview
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.
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
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.
27 October 2011, 09:11 | Interview |
Charley Warner was one of the first teachers at the Odesa theological seminary. He lived in Ukraine till 1999 and then moved to Austria. During the EAAA conference “10 Years of Theological Education” RISU was able to ask him a few questions about changes in Protestant theological education, developments in modern Protestant theology, and his mission.
18 October 2011, 18:11 | Interview |
New Ukrainian Prelate Speaks of Hope for Church Unity
Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk discusses his role in fostering ‘unity of action.’
18 August 2011, 12:09 | Interview |
| Chief Rabbi of Kyiv Yakov Dov Bleich on Ukraine gaining its independence
This interview is shortened version of the talk with Sara Sievers as part of the project The collapse of the Soviet Union: the Oral History of Independent Ukraine.
15 August 2011, 11:07 | Interview |
Patriarch Lubomyr (Husar): ‘We are people who are just waking up to freedom…’
These are the topics of RISU’s conversation with a man who, according to opinion polls, is considered to be the indisputable moral authority for Ukrainians of different social strata and cultural traditions, of different denominations and faiths – the primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) from 2001-2010, Patriarch Lubomyr (Husar).
9 August 2011, 14:05 | Interview |
The Day asked the Archbishop Mechyslav MOKSHYTSKY to share his memories about John Paul II and discussed the religious situation in Ukraine.
25 Jule 2011, 17:30 | Interview |
Mustafa Jemilev: «We Haven’t Got Anything Except Ukraine»
We talk about the religion in Crimean Tatars’ life with the Chairman of Mejlis, MP of Ukraine, famous dissident and public figure Mustafa JEMILEV. Recently he was awarded “Light of Justice” Prize for moral, spiritual and ethic leadership.
18 Jule 2011, 13:03 | Interview |
| His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk): “I will continue to build the patriarchate”
The following is an interview with head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), Patriarch Sviatoslav (Shevchuk), about his first one hundred days as primate, about his view on the identity of the UGCC, what the patriarchate means to church, how he sees the relations with the authorities and other churches, and more.
6 June 2011, 14:00 | Interview |
Less than half of the press service for the visit of His Holiness John Paul ІІ to Ukraine in 2001, working in Lviv, were professional journalists. Meanwhile their word was highly praised by foreign journalists who had covered many apostolic visits. Creation and maintenance of the official visit’s website was supervised by Ihor BALYNSKYI, political scientist, head of the Journalism Department of the Humanities Faculty at UCU, Docent of the Journalism Faculty at the Ivan Franko National University in Lviv.
19 April 2011, 11:25 | Interview |
Dognal's Group is radical sect, - expert says
The Group of Dognal has been active in Ukraine for several years. UGCC has made some steps to let the public know about its activity. As we know, the leaders of the group are foreigners who have stayed in Ukraine contrary to the visa system for a few years.
31 March 2011, 13:10 | Interview |
New Head of Ukrainian Catholics: We want our Church to be alive
Newly elected and enthroned Head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk) gave his first press-conference to Ukrainian journalists in Kyiv before his trip to Holy See and audience of Pope Benedict XVI.
10 February 2011, 17:45 | Interview |
During the 10 years of his ministry as patriarch of the UGCC, His Beatitude Lubomyr was for all Ukrainian Greek Catholics, and for others as well, a moral authority and example of how one must live in Christ. In an interview with Bishop Benedict Aleksiychuk, auxiliary bishop of the Lviv Archeparchy of the UGCC, we learn more about the basis for his pastoral charisma and about his influence on the spiritual life of Ukrainians.
14 December 2010, 17:54 | Interview |
Ukrainian Greek Catholic parish in Paris
Interview with the senior priest of the Church of St. Volodymyr of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Paris with Fr. Mykhailo ROMANIUK about his parish and Ukrainians in France.
2 December 2010, 16:22 | Interview |
I would divide my parishioners into three groups. The first one is Ukrainians of German ancestry who live in Kyiv and its surrounding cities such as Irpin, Bucha, Klavdiyeve. Some of them speak German, especially the older generation. The second group includes people from Germany and German-speaking countries who live for a number of years in Kyiv. In general, these are people from the embassy or business sector, and those who married local residents. All of them are also parishioners at our church.
25 November 2010, 17:32 | Interview |
Historian Yaroslav Hrytsak: Historical Memory Needs to Be Accountable
The memory about the Holodomor unites Ukrainians. This is not a hypothesis or an assumption but a conclusion of sociological research that shows that in the last three years a new phenomenon has appeared in the Ukrainian society—Ukrainians have come to believe that the famine was a genocide.
8 November 2010, 01:01 | Interview |
Lesia Kovalenko: In the future we want Social Days to be for the whole UGCC
29 October 2010, 13:13 | Interview |
Father Vasyl Potochniak: Migration has left its mark on each of us
To learn about the main mission of the pilgrimage of the migrant families that is taking place for the first time in Lviv, its main goals, as well as about the new challenges of migration and how the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church reacts to them, we spoke with its organizer Father Vasyl Potochniak, the executive secretary of the Pastoral and Missionary Division of the UGCC, a priest who has a lot of personal experience ministering for Ukrainian migrants abroad.