http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/communityhttp://risu.org.ua/php_uploads/images/sitecontent/ContentFileLogo_EN_5.gifhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community16984http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/freedom_of_conscience/46634/Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:55:10 +0200On 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.Freedom of Consciencehttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/religion_and_society/46623/Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:43:03 +0200On February 1, in the Kholodnohirska Penitentiary in Kharkiv Oblast, the region’s first prayer room for Muslim convicts has been opened. There are over 30 Muslim convicts in the colony.Religion and societyhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/culture/inheritance/46615/Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:51:01 +0200UNP [Ukrainian People’s Party] prepares an address to the Public Prosecutor’s Office and intends to conduct consultations with the Parliamentary factions as to establishing of a temporary investigation committee of the Supreme Council to investigate the reasons of the dismissal of the directors of 5 most outstanding Ukrainian museums.Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritancehttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/about_us/editorialnews/46590/Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:44:04 +0200Eleven years ago, the editorial office of the Religious Information Service of Ukraine was established.Editorial newshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/state/church_state_relations/46591/Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:11:03 +0200According to the Minister of Culture of Ukraine, the question of the transfer of the Kyiv Cave Reserve to the church may be considered at a public hearing.Church-state relationshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/faith_and_weapon/46588/Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:55:01 +0200On 30 January, in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), the Conference of the Chief Military Chaplains of the NATO Countries was launched.Faith and weaponhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/protests/46571/Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:12:01 +0200In Simferopol District in Crimea, the relations between the Muslim community and the administration of the Dobrov Village Council deteriorated as the deputies allowed to allocate a land plot of 25 ares for a church of the Crimean Eparchy in the village of Lozove.Protests and conflictshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/confessional/interchurch_relations/46561/Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:59:43 +0200"I still believe conflicts need to be resolved more energetically, if not fully, in order for this meeting to be successful," the Patriarch said in an interview with the Serb newspaper Vecherniye Novosti.Interchurch relationshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/46497/Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:47:01 +0200Experts associate the large-scale replacement of the directors of the most significant cultural institutions with the efforts of the authorities to employ ex-officials who were made redundant due to the reduction of the top section of officials.Scandals, crimehttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/religion_and_society/46439/Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:20:02 +0200The Minister of Culture, Mykhailo Kulyniak on 20 January signed an order to dismiss the General Director of the Kyiv Cave National Historic and Cultural Reserve, Maryna Hromova.Religion and societyhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/land_and_property_problems/46436/Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:53:00 +0200The first 20 patients of the Berezhany psychoneurological nursing home in Krasnopushcha of Ternopil Oblast were moved from the building of a Basilian Monastery.Land and property problemshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/state/church_state_relations/46417/Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:26:01 +0200The Cabinet of Ministers allowed the National Natural Park Holy Mountains [Sviati Hory] to develop a project of land management to allocate to the park a land plot of 20 Hectares intended for forestry purposes in the Sloviansk District of Donetsk Region.Church-state relationshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/religion_and_policy/46381/Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:45:02 +0200During a visit to the eastern Ukrainian city of Cherkasy, Patriarch Sviatoslav stated that the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is taking measures so that the church is not used by any political party for political purpses.Religion and policyhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/religion_and_policy/46388/Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:16:01 +0200On January 16, in the town of Uman of Cherkasy Oblast, approximately 300 activists organized a protest “Uman, Rise Against Corruption and Invasion.”Religion and policyhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/charity/46383/Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:02:45 +0200The pastor of the Church of Good Changes from Mariupol, Director of the Republic Pilgrim Charitable Foundation, Hennadii Mokhnenko with a group of volunteers launched a missionary trip to Kenya, Africa on 16 January.Charity, social servicehttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/young_people/46380/Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:49:01 +0200Patriarch Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), said that the church has no special tactic for engaging young people in the church.Children young people and religionhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/charity/46375/Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:09:19 +0200There was a positive trend in 2011 regarding the upbringing of orphans in family-type orphans or foster families, the Ukrainian president's commissioner for children's rights, Yuriy Pavlenko, has said, KyivPost informs.Charity, social servicehttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/other_confessions/judaism/46321/Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:46:03 +0200On January 11, a new synagogue was opened in the eastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhia. It was given a name Hiimat-Roza in honor of the mother sponsors who financed the construction.Judaismhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/orthodox/uoc/46313/Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:14:00 +0200In a commentary to Gazeta.ua, Metropolitan Sofronii (Dmytruk) of Cherkasy and Kaniv expressed an opinion that Metropolitan Ahafangel (Savin) has no chances to head the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate and that a Ukrainian will head the Church.UOC (MP)http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/religion_and_society/46281/Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:57:01 +0200A number of Christian organizations addressed Ukrainians with a call to conduct a joint national Prayer at 2 pm, on 22 January, at the main squares of the towns and villages of Ukraine.Religion and society