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/48121/Tue, 15 May 2012 16:13:27 +0300Archbishop Klement (Kushch) of the Crimea of te Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate addressed the Prosecutor General, Viktor Pshonka with a request to oblige Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych to give a response to the address 443/15228-01 of the faithful of UOC-KP of 16.03.2012.Church-state relationshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/temples_church_property/47944/Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:35:10 +0300Construction of a new synagogue was launched in Sevastopol. UNIAN reported with reference to the press Secretary of the Chief Rabbi of Sevastopol, Borys Nesterenko.Temples, church propertyhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/temples_church_property/47851/Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:10:20 +0300The Odesa City Council will sell the building of the Church of All Saints located at 33 Akademika Hlushka Street to the Odesa Eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate at a symbolic price of UAH 1.2.Temples, church propertyhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/temples_church_property/47731/Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:56:03 +0300On 10 April, The Lviv Regional Council passed an address to the Supreme Council of Ukraine and the local councils of all the levels as to prevention of the transfer of the national shrines to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate.Temples, church propertyhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/land_and_property_problems/47517/Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:50:23 +0300At a press conference at UNIAN today, Patriarch Sviatoslav of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) said that the state leadership puts no pressure on the UGCC, but the authorities in Ukraine do not observe the principle of equal treatment of all the denominations, especially at the local level.Land and property problemshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/culture/religion_and_culture/47149/Tue, 06 Mar 2012 08:59:09 +0300On the instruction of the head of the Kyiv City State Administration, Oleksandr Popov, the list of Kyiv’s historic and architectural monuments of the state and local significance has been published by the web site of the Main Department of Protection of Cultural Heritage.Religion and culturehttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/land_and_property_problems/47045/Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:38:10 +0300Vasyl Horbal, a deputy of the Party of Regions, who was the author of Bill 9690 On Restitution of Objects of Cultural Heritage to Religious Organizations registered on January 12, 2012, assured that the bill has a good chance of being passed by the Parliament.Land and property problemshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/temples_church_property/46757/Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:00:07 +0300According to the Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Patriarch Sviatoslav, it is advisable to carry out the restitution of Church property in Ukraine, but it should be done carefully without favoritism with respect to any denomination.Temples, church propertyhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/temples_church_property/46754/Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:25:10 +0300According to the newspaper Segodnia (Number 30 of 9 February), the new General Director of the Kyiv Cave Reserve, Viktoria Lisnycha stated that the service for visitors of the monastery is to be improved considerably.Temples, church propertyhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/state/church_state_relations/46711/Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:43:20 +0300Patriarh 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 +0300"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 +0300Experts 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 +0300The 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 +0300On 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 +0300On 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 +0300The 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 +0300The 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 +0300The 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 +0300On 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 +0300Deputies 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 property