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27 March 2012, 09:21 | Authorities Religious Affairs |
Public Council of Ministry of Culture Sets Up Committee on Religions
The Public Council of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine elected its leadership, approved its Regulations and set up specialized committees at its session.
22 March 2012, 14:15 | Church-state relations |
Council of Churches Passed to President Document with List of Pressing Problems
At the meeting on 21 March, the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations (AUCCRO) passed to the President of Ukraine an address document, in which the Churches and religious organizations draw the president's attention to modern social challenges.
22 March 2012, 08:39 | Church-state relations |
President Yanukovych Promises Equal Conditions for All Denominations
The authorities should ensure equal conditions and possibilities for all the citizens of Ukraine regardless of their religious affiliation, President Viktor Yanukovych said at a meeting on March 21 with the heads of the churches and religious organizations.
14 February 2012, 12:11 | Freedom of Conscience |
Parliament's Ombudsman Reports Numerous Problems Regarding Religious Freedom in Ukraine
The Commissioner of the Supreme Council of Ukraine on human rights Nina Karpachova presented the annual report on the status of observance and protection of the human rights and freedoms in Ukraine on February 8 in the Parliament.
13 February 2012, 09:52 | Legislation |
Ministry of Culture Does Not Insist on New Wording of Law on Religious Organizations
The Ministry of Culture of Ukraine supported the proposal of the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations as to the inadvisability of passing a new wording of the Law “On the Freedom of Consience and Religious Organizations.”
3 February 2012, 14:55 | Freedom of Conscience |
Evangelical Protestant Leaders To Discuss Media Campaign Against Their Churches
On February 7, 2012, a meeting of the heads of the Council of Evangelical Protestant Churches of Ukraine regarding the campaign of mass media against Evangelical Churches will be held.
19 December 2011, 16:35 | Religion in mass media |
| Association of Catholic Media Workers of Ukraine Established
On December 17, 2011, in Kyiv, in the Monastery of St. Basil the Great (Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church), a meeting of the community of Catholic journalists was held.
9 December 2011, 19:53 | Religious mass media and Internet |
First Catholic TV Channel Launched in Kyiv
On December 8, Archbishop Petro Malchuk, Ordinary of the Kyiv-Zhytomyr Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church, launched the first Catholic TV channel in Kyiv.
8 November 2011, 14:55 | Church-state relations |
President Yanukovych Did Not Respond to Any Address of Synod of UGCC
According to Patriarch Sviatoslav (Shevchuk), the Synod of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) sent many letters to Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych but received no reply.
18 October 2011, 09:49 | Freedom of Conscience |
| Odesa Catholics and Protestants Indignant At Policy of New State Authorities
During a round table on the diversity of denominations in Odesa, a priest of Odesa-Simferopol Eparchy of the Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine, Viacheslav Kovalskyi stated that there have been no problems for the Church until recently.
12 October 2011, 16:43 | Scandals, crime |
Pentecostals in Ternopil Complain to Public Prosecutor About Actions of Police
The Ternopil Region Association of Churches of Evangelical Faith (ACEF) approached Public Prosecutor of Ternopil Oblast Ivan Melnychuk and Commissioner on Human Rights in the Supreme Council of Ukraine Nina Karpachova with a request to interfere in the matter of a cruel beating by Ternopil police of the youth leader of the Church of Christians of Evangelical Faith in the town of Zbarazh.
6 October 2011, 12:57 | Religious intolerance and vandalism |
| Ukrainian Pilgrim: Israeli Airport Personnel Commit Sacrilege Against Christian Crucifix
A Ukrainian pilgrim received back a broken one-meter long wooden crucifix at the airport when he returned from the Holy Land on October 5. According to him, the crucifix was shattered by representatives of the El Al airline at the Ben Hurion Airport of Israel.
26 September 2011, 08:41 | Religion and policy |
Police Detains 60 Members of Svoboda in Uman
Police in the eastern Ukrainian city of Uman detained approximately 60 members of the nationalist Svoboda association for an attempt to hold an action prohibited by court.
19 September 2011, 09:41 | Land and property problems |
| Sevastopol Deputies Refuse to Give Back Church Building to Roman Catholics
Sevastopol Deputies again refused to return the building of the Church of St. Clement to Roman Catholics.
15 September 2011, 10:19 | Church-state relations |
Report of the State Department for the Congress of the United States on religious freedom in Ukraine
The Ukrainian government on the whole observes the freedom of religion both according to the law and in practice.
9 September 2011, 10:11 | Church-state relations |
In view of the recent rise of the utility tariffs for religious organizations, on September 8, the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Volodymyr, sent a letter to President Yanukovych.
7 September 2011, 10:39 | Land and property problems |
Bill Proposing Privatization of Pochayiv Monastery Provokes Protests
On September 6, Ukrainian deputies Yurii But (a member of a pro-regime deputy group Reforms for the Future) and Dmytro Shentsev (a member of the Party of Regions faction) submitted to the Supreme Council a bill proposing to allow privatization of the buildings of the Pochayiv Monastery. The monastery is currently under the jurisdiction of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate.
26 August 2011, 09:41 | Freedom of Conscience |
Greek Catholic priest's concert stopped in Odesa
On August 23, on the eve of Independence Day, in Odesa, a concert of a Greek Catholic priest and singer, Fr. Vitold Levytskyi, and a Christian group Quo Vadis was interrupted.
23 August 2011, 09:43 | Freedom of Conscience |
Odesa authorities ban procession of Roman Catholic community
The sixth Diocesan Youth Day was held in Odesa from August 19 to 21. Youth from the Odesa-Simferopol diocese of the Roman Catholic Church, and also Khmelnytsky, Kyiv, Zhytomyr Oblasts attended this event.
8 August 2011, 09:41 | Land and property problems |
Ten Thousand Signatures Collected to Support Return of Catholic Church in Sevastopol to Believers
During the month of an information campaign in Sevastopol, over 10 thousand signatures were collected in support of returning the building of a former Polish Catholic Church of Clement of Rome to the believers.