http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/confessionalhttp://risu.org.ua/php_uploads/images/sitecontent/ContentFileLogo_EN_5.gifhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/confessional16984http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/confessional/orthodox_relations/46693/Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:38:02 +0200On February 9, in the building of the Patriarchate of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, in Kyiv, a regular session of the Hierarchical Council of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) will be held.Inter-Orthodox relationshttp://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/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/confessional/interchurch_relations/46480/Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:31:02 +0200On January 21, in the eastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhia, in the Church of St. Paul of the Roman Catholic Church, an interdenominational prayer meeting was held as part of the World Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.Interchurch relationshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/confessional/interchurch_relations/46475/Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:16:03 +0200Representatives of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC), Roman Catholic Church (RCC), Armenian Apostolic Church and the Church of Christians of Evangelical Faith participated in an interdenominational prayer for unity held on January 24 in the chapel of the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU).Interchurch relationshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/confessional/religious_relations/46465/Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:35:45 +0200Kazakhstan claimed that its Orthodox Christian community enjoys equal rights and that the country is a land of "ethnic and religious harmony", Interfax-religion informs.Religious relationshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/confessional/interchurch_relations/46449/Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:29:01 +0200On January 22, representatives of Christian Churches of Ukraine jointly prayed for the unity of Christianity in the Church of St. Basil the Great of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Kyiv.Interchurch relationshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/culture/religious_ceremonies/46359/Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:11:01 +0200Patriarch Sviatoslav of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) initiated an ecumenical prayer to be held at 6 p.m., on January 22, in the Church of St. Basil the Great of the UGCC.Religious ceremonies and pilgrimagehttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/confessional/interchurch_relations/46397/Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:44:53 +0200Lutheran and Catholic bishops addressed Metropolitan Ahafangel (Savin) of Odesa and Izmail of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate with an open letter.Interchurch relationshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/confessional/interchurch_relations/46371/Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:26:01 +0200On 18 January, in the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin, the Week of Prayers for the unity of Christians and reconciliation between people, nations and communities will begin .Interchurch relationshttp://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 societyhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/confessional/orthodox_relations/46222/Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:16:40 +0200With the blessing of Metropolitan Volodymyr, on 1-3 January, the official delegation of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) led by the head of the Department of External Church Relations, Archbishop Oleksandr of Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Vyshneve visited the Holy Land.Inter-Orthodox relationshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/confessional/orthodox_relations/46210/Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:04:02 +0200Patriarch Filaret in an exclusive interview to RISU expressed an opinion that even though the negotiations between the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate did not yield the expected result, it does not mean that the whole UAOC does not want unity. He assured that the dialogue will be resumed sooner or later.Inter-Orthodox relationshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/confessional/orthodox_relations/46198/Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:50:05 +0200The head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate (UOC-KP) said in an interview to RISU that in 2008, Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople proposed the UOC-KP to join it and, later, receive an autonomy. The conditions of Constantinople, however, were unacceptable for the clergy of the UOC-KP and the union was not concluded.Inter-Orthodox relationshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/confessional/orthodox_relations/46184/Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:35:26 +0200Unlike the Head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Volodymyr, who once stressed that the Ukrainian question should be settled by the council of all the local Orthodox Churches, the Head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate, Patriarch Filaret is convinced that it is impossible to realize that idea in the modern conditions.Inter-Orthodox relationshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/confessional/interchurch_relations/46132/Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:27:47 +0200Representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church are concerned over the statements of Patriarch Sviatoslav (Shevchuk) that believers of the Kyivan Patriarchate are “the main Orthodox brethren” of the Ukrainian Greek Catholics.Interchurch relationshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/confessional/auccro/46117/Wed, 28 Dec 2011 09:36:42 +0200On December 26, in the patriarchate of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC), a session of the Secretariat of the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations was held.AUCCRO, inter-confessional councilshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/culture/religious_holidays/46111/Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:40:01 +0200Bishops of three Christian denominations of Odesa, Bishop Bronislav Bernatskyi of Odesa and Simferopol of the Roman Catholic Church, Bishop Vasyl (Ivasiuk) of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and Bishop Uland Schpalinger of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ukraine jointly addressed the residents of Odesa and all people of good will on occasion of Christmas.Religious holidays and traditionshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/confessional/orthodox_relations/46058/Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:55:00 +0200According to Patriarch Filaret, the idea to anathematize and dismiss him from the Church authority position was proposed in 1992 by the present Head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Kirill Gundyaev, who was then Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad.Inter-Orthodox relationshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/state/church_state_relations/46050/Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:14:01 +0200The head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate, Patriarch Filaret, is convinced that the Kharkiv Council, which took place nearly 20 years ago, was held by the Ukrainian bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church on the initiative of the state security service, on which they totally depended then.Church-state relations