Monitoring of religious freedom in Ukraine
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.
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.
22 Jule 2011, 12:05 | Church-state relations |
On July 19 leaders of the denominations of Ukraine held a session of All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations (AUCCRO). The meeting was held under the chairmanship of the senior pastor the Union of Free Churches of Christians of Evangelical Faith, Vasyl Raichyntsia, in the Ukrainian Bible House, reports the Institute for Religious Freedom.
14 Jule 2011, 10:02 | Land and property problems |
Head of the Sevastopol City Council Yurii Doinikov believes that the fate of the building on Schmidt Street, which before the war was a Roman Catholic church and after a cinema, should be decided by a city-wide referendum.
30 June 2011, 10:01 | Legislation |
Parliament rejects bill on moratorium on privatization of church property
The Ukrainian parliament rejected a bill submitted by deputy Olha Bodnar (BYuT-Fatherland) on a moratorium on the privatization of religious property, the Institute for Religious Freedom reports.
28 June 2011, 11:25 | Church-state relations |
On Sunday, June 26, Catholics of Odesa for the first time in many years were not able to walk in the traditional procession on the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ around their cathedral. The Catholics were decided permission from the Distrcit Administrative Court, on the basis of statements from the Odesa City Council.
14 June 2011, 13:16 | Legislation |
Draft law No. 5335 “On Introducing Changes to Criminal and Procedural Code of Ukraine” (on adherence to the confidentiality of a confession) in the first reading was supported by 236 deputies while the required minimum is 226, informs Korrespondent.
6 June 2011, 15:35 | International relations |
Tony Blair and Viktor Yanukovych discuss religious tolerance in Ukraine
President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Tony Blair held a meeting to discuss religious tolerance in Ukraine and all over the world.
16 May 2011, 16:45 | Scandals, crime |
Unknown persons in Kharkiv set fire to the door of the mosque. So reported The Center of Public Relations of the Main Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in Kharkiv Region to unian.net.