http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/temples_church_propertyhttp://risu.org.ua/php_uploads/images/sitecontent/ContentFileLogo_EN_5.gifhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/temples_church_property16984http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/state/church_state_relations/46711/Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:43:20 +0200Patriarh Filaret of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate sent a letter to President Viktor Yanukovych expressing his concern about Bill 9690 “On making alterations to certain laws of Ukraine (regarding the transfer of objects of the cultural heritage to religious organizations).”Church-state relationshttp://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/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/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/community/temples_church_property/46268/Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:20:02 +0200On 29 December, 2011, in Kyiv, the temporary conservation of the foundations of the Tithe Church was completed.Temples, church propertyhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/culture/religious_ceremonies/46231/Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:34:00 +0200The number of the visitors of the Kyiv Cave National Historic and Cultural Reserve have grown considerably during the New Year celebration time.Religious ceremonies and pilgrimagehttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/state/church_state_relations/46227/Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:22:49 +0200The participants of the session of the Council of Churches of Ternopil Region of 4 January discussed questions of the social care for the needy at the time of Christmas and the need to duly preserve the sacral heritage.Church-state relationshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/land_and_property_problems/46149/Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:58:01 +0200The Lviv City Council has given a Christmas present to the Church.Land and property problemshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/temples_church_property/45882/Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:42:01 +0200On 8 December, Patriarch Sviatoslav met with representatives of the Odesa Regional State Administration and City Council.Temples, church propertyhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/temples_church_property/45813/Wed, 07 Dec 2011 09:40:00 +0200Deputies of the Kyiv City Council refused to cancel the decision to allocate to the Investment Building Group Ltd a land plot in the buffer zone of Sophia of Kyiv for construction.Temples, church propertyhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/other_confessions/islam/45729/Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:00:01 +0200The Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of Ukraine has organized a press tour around the new Ar-Rakhma Mosque in Kyiv.Islamhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/temples_church_property/45717/Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:48:01 +0200The Uman Synagogue, which was once attended by Rabbi Nakhman, will be returned to the ownership of the local Jewish community.Temples, church propertyhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/culture/inheritance/45634/Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:16:00 +0200Work on the conservation of the foundation of the Tithe Church will be executed this year.Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritancehttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/state/church_state_relations/45475/Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:09:01 +0200The head of the Chernivtsi Regional State Administration, Mykhailo Papiev, promised the Jewish religious community Ruzhyn Sandhora that they will have a synagogue.Church-state relationshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/culture/inheritance/45019/Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:15:00 +0200Bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate expressed concern over the possibility of constructing a new church in the place of the Tithe Church in Kyiv and its transfer to the Moscow Patriarchate.Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritancehttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/state/church_state_relations/44831/Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:33:00 +0200The head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), Metropolitan Volodymyr, sent the following open letters to Ukraine’s president, the head of the presidential administration, and heads of factions in the Supreme Council of Ukraine regarding the renewal of the Tithe Church.Church-state relationshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/temples_church_property/44517/Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:47:00 +0200A special committee of the Supreme Council did not support the draft resolution to exclude the Pochaiv Monastery from the list of objects which are not subject to privatization.Temples, church propertyhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/temples_church_property/44501/Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:39:00 +0200The press service of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate published an address of its head, Metropolitan Volodymyr, on the occasion of the 1000th anniversary of the foundation of the St. Sophia Cathedral.Temples, church propertyhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/culture/inheritance/44458/Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:28:20 +0200Eight wooden Ukrainian churches, four in Lviv region, two in Ivano-Frankivsk region, and two in Transcarpathian region, have been chosen to be put on the UNESCO World Heritage list, a the leading researcher of the Ukrzakhidproectrestavratsia Institute in Lviv, Vasyl Slobodian, has told the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia newspaper.Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritance