http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/orthodoxhttp://risu.org.ua/php_uploads/images/sitecontent/ContentFileLogo_EN_5.gifhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/orthodox16984http://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/culture/inheritance/46686/Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:44:02 +0200After Viktor Yanukovych was elected president, the Kyiv City Council rapidly voted for the transfer of the Kyiv Cave Monastery from municipal to state ownership. Now the Supreme Council considers a draft law on the transfer of the object from the state to private ownership.Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritancehttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/orthodox/uoc_kp/46671/Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:45:00 +0200On 4 February, 2012, at the National Opera House of Ukraine, a celebratory academy was held on occasion of the 50th anniversary of bishop’s consecration and 45th anniversary of the ministry at the Kyivan Cathedra of Patriarch Filaret.UOC KPhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/orthodox/uoc/46670/Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:29:01 +0200The head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), Metropolitan Volodymyr, celebrated a liturgy in the hospital where he undergoes rehabilitation, by which he refuted the claims that he is incapable.UOC (MP)http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/orthodox/uoc_kp/46669/Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:48:03 +0200Patriarch Filaret, the head of the Kyivan Patriarchate, stated on a program of Channel 5 that no dialogue has been conducted between the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church but that both churches hold the Ukrainian statehood position.UOC KPhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/orthodox/uoc_kp/46650/Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:43:02 +0200Patriarch Filaret is against the transfer of the Pochayiv and Kyiv Cave Monasteries to the Russian Church.UOC KPhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/orthodox/moscow_patriarchy/46610/Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:34:10 +0200On 1 February, the third anniversary of enthronement of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow was marked.Moscow Patriarchyhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/orthodox/uoc/46609/Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:19:19 +0200On 1 February, on the third anniversary of his enthronement, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow presented high Church awards to bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate.UOC (MP)http://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/orthodox/uoc/46552/Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:36:02 +0200The Administrator of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), Archbishop Mytrofan (Yurchuk) of Bila Tserkva and Bohuslav commented on the response of the mass media to the decisions of the Synod of UOC-MP of 26 January.UOC (MP)http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/orthodox/uoc_kp/46513/Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:21:04 +0200Representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate commented to Kommersant-Ukraine on the decisions of the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate held on 26 January under the chairmanship of Metropolitan Ahafangel of Odesa and Izmail.UOC KPhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/orthodox/uoc/46512/Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:27:02 +0200Metropolitan Volodymyr was surprised to hear about certain rotation decisions of the Synod of UOC-MP of January 26.UOC (MP)http://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/state/church_state_relations/46454/Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:16:30 +0200The National Committee on Regulating Energy of Ukraine considered the address of Metropolitan Volodymyr to Prime Minister Azarov with the request to restore the utility benefits for religious organizations.Church-state 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/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/orthodox/uoc_kp/46415/Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:06:00 +0200Patriarch Filaret stated that the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate is on the brink of a schism as he commented in an interview to Weekly.ua on the session of the Synod of UOC-MP planned for 26 January, where an acting head of that Church can be elected in view of the sickness of the Head of UOC-MP, Metropolitan Volodymyr.UOC KPhttp://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/orthodox/uoc/46391/Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:02:37 +0200Metropolitan Volodymyr, the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), will not be able to bless the water in the Dnipro River on January 19, on the feast of Epiphany, due to his recovery from his sickness.UOC (MP)