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25 July 2017, 17:19 | Reports |
| “Faith and Light” celebrates 25th anniversary of special friendship
Members of the Faith and Light movement try not only to serve the poor, do something for them, but to stay beside them, to become friends for them.
5 May 2017, 14:05 | Journalistic investigations |
Historical memory or legal rights: Baptists in Volyn struggle for the future of an ancient church
The ruins of the old church in the district center of Rozhische in Volyn have become the subject of controversy between the Protestants and the Orthodox. The temple was built in the nineteenth century by the Baptists, “the Soviets” expropriated and placed manufacturing plants in the church.
17 February 2017, 18:33 | Events & people |
Heroes of our time. A story of a missionary from Avdiyivka
How does it feel - to abandon ambitions or favorite work and go to the east of Ukraine, in the thick of war at the age of 20-22?
21 December 2016, 14:35 | Kaleidoscope |
| Ternopil amateur gives second life to rundown churches
The craftsman has also made architectural models, recreating the original appearance of the temples that have survived altered, and his plans include the creation of a museum of architectural models.
14 December 2016, 11:55 | Reports |
Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti about Vatican diplomacy, Ukraine and Syria
The Vatican’s international relations have their own unique history of diplomacy and influence the course of events. The special status of a mini-state, its uniqueness often allows exerting influence in places and in ways that are inaccessible to secular diplomats.
Expert thought
16 August 2017, 09:23 | Andrew Sorokowski's column |
Ukrainian autocephaly is a threat to the Moscow Patriarchate’s control of East Slavic Orthodoxy. And the Moscow Patriarchate’s ecclesiastical control over Orthodoxy in Ukraine and Belarus is an important element of the Kremlin’s political control over those countries.
7 July 2017, 13:28 | Interview |
Religious Studies
7 July 2016, 13:11 | Religious studies |
Ukrainain Orthodoxy on the eve of Pan-Orthodox Council. Part III
The history evidences: the Local Churches that were historically associated with earthly empires were uninterested in the canonical establishment of local churches under their jurisdictions, and therefore usually granted autocephaly to churches only under the pressure of historic circumstances. No exception is the Moscow Patriarchate, which has incorporated the Orthodox Church in Ukraine since 1686.
5 July 2016, 14:22 | Religious studies |
Ukrainian Orthodoxy: path to recovery of Church unity. Part II
Ukrainian Orthodoxy and Ukrainian society suffer from division. The majority of Ukrainian Orthodox believers belong to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate. The rest of the Orthodox community of Ukraine has chosen a different path of self-proclaimed autocephaly. However, neither the first nor the second path is optimal for the Orthodox Church in Ukraine to date.
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Memorial Service for reposed Patriarch Lubomyr Husar in the Patriachal Cathedral in Kyiv
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Monitoring
The Moscow "papacy"? | 20 September 2017, 19:01 | Society-digest |
Pilgrims return to abandoned coal town for worship and fellowship | 29 August 2017, 17:45 | Society-digest |
Pa. town just a memory, but thriving parish now a pilgrimage site | 25 August 2017, 15:26 | Society-digest
UGCC
20 September 2017, 10:44 | Conferences, seminars, researches |
UGCC presents public project “Ukraine United and Kyivan Church”
On September 19, at the National Preserve “St Sofia of Kyiv” Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Svyatoslav (Shevchuk) presented a public project “Ukraine United (Soborna) and the Kyivan Church”. It was reported by the Department of Information of the UGCC.
18 September 2017, 17:00 | UGCC |
His Beatitude Lubomyr’s niece studies genealogy of Husars’ family
Maria Ripan, the daughter of the native sister Martha and the goddaughter of His Beatitude Lubomyr (Husar), is working with archival documents to investigate the genealogy of her great relative.
12 September 2017, 14:57 | UGCC |
UGCC creates a new diocese and appoints its new hierarch
On September 12, the Vatican reported that Pope Francis approved the decision of the Synod of Bishops of the UGCC to establish the Diocese of Chernivtsi. His Eminence Joshaphat (Moshchych) was appointed its first bishop.
11 September 2017, 14:57 | UGCC |
Synod of Bishops of the UGCC to adopt a new charter, as “Church has grown”
The Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is planning to adopt the new Charter of the Synod. This was stated by Archbishop and Metropolitan Yevgeny (Popovich of Przemysl and Warsaw, Head of the Canonical Department of the UGCC in an interview with the Department of Information of the UGCC.
11 September 2017, 10:37 | Religious ceremonies and pilgrimage |
| Patriarchal pilgrimage held in Goshiv
The dismissal service in the Basilian Goshiv Monastery gathered on September 10 thousands of pilgrims. Bishops of the UGCC arrived for the dismissal service from parishes from west to east of Ukraine, far abroad - America, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, USA, Canada, Italy in Yasnaya Gora. They are so numerous because these days the Synod of Bishops of the UGCC convenes in Lviv.
30 August 2017, 12:23 | UGCC |
UGCC Hierarchs from all over the world come to Lviv Synod
As reported, on August 8, 2017, the Holy Father blessed the decision of the Synod of Bishops of the UGCC to appoint Father Andriy Rabia, the protosynclael of the Philadelphia Archdiocese of the UGCC in the United States, the Assistant Bishop of this archdiocese, giving him the titular seat of Germaniciana.
29 August 2017, 10:00 | Theology and religious education |
25 Years of UCU in Ukraine: Opening of the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Center
The new academic year at the Ukrainian Catholic University will start with the culmination of the university’s seven-year Comprehensive Campaign.
24 August 2017, 11:34 | Religion and society |
In his speech to the Parade on the occasion of the 26th anniversary of the Independence of Ukraine, President Petro Poroshenko cited the words of Archbishop Lubomyr Husar of the UGCC.
16 August 2017, 11:58 | Faith and weapon |
“Fruit Basket for Defender of Ukraine” in Lviv
This was stated in an interview to RISU of the rector of the garrison church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, head of the Center for the military chaplaincy of the Lviv Archdiocese of the UGCC, Father Stepan Sus.
16 August 2017, 11:24 | Religious intolerance and vandalism |
The US Department of State report on the religious situation in Ukraine in 2016
The release of the 2016 International Religious Freedom Report details the status of religious freedom in 199 countries and territories, and provides insights as to significant and growing challenges.
11 August 2017, 10:44 | UGCC |
The newly ordained Bishop Andriy Rabiy will be formally welcomed in the Ukrainian Catholic Metropolia of Philadelphia with his celebrating a Hierarchical Divine Liturgy in the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Philadelphia on Sunday, September 24th, 2017 at 3 p.m.
8 August 2017, 14:51 | UGCC |
Ukranian archeparchy in Philadelphia gets a new auxiliary bishop
The date of his episcopal ordination has not yet been set, but is expected to be announced soon.
7 August 2017, 13:45 | Religion and society |
| Odesa hierarchs to take measures not to allow gay-pride
Leaders and representatives of Odessa Christian churches appealed to the mayor of Odessa Gennady Trukhanov asking not to allow the festival of queer culture “Odessa Pride 2017”, scheduled for August 8-13.
3 August 2017, 10:10 | Religion and society |
Best Ukraine’s doctors to get St Panteleimon’s Orders
On August 9, in the National Philharmonic of Ukraine in Kyiv, the five best doctors of Ukraine will be bestowed the Order of St. Panteleimon.
2 August 2017, 12:55 | UGCC |
UGCC receives a building for pastoral care in Severodonetsk
On August 1, 2017, the Pastoral-social mission of the UGCC in Severodonetsk received a two-storied building (900 square meters) in the center of the city. Thanks to the participation of Bishop Stepan, the Donetsk Exarch of the UGCC, and the assistance of the benefactors from Renovabis Fund, it was possible to get this space, which would be in line with the task of the Pastoral-Social Mission - to be the spiritual and social center of the local community life.
18 July 2017, 10:31 | Vatican |
Cardinal Sandri shared about his visit to Ukraine
Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, wraps up a week-long visit to Ukraine on Monday.
13 July 2017, 09:55 | Religion and society |
Cardinal Leonardo Sandri met with the IDPs from Donbas in Kharkiv
On July 12, Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, Papal Nuncio Claudio Gugerotti and Patriarch of the UGCC, Sviatoslav (Shevchuk) arrived in Kharkiv. At the airport, they met the Exarch of Kharkiv of the UGCC Basil (Tuchapets), Bishop Jan (Sobilo) of the RCC and the clergy of the exarchate. This is reported by the Department of Information of the UGCC.
13 July 2017, 01:03 | Vatican
“We understand that this ecclesial communion, sealed with the blood of hundreds of thousands of known and unknown martyrs and confessors of our Church, is much more than unity in the canonical sense,” he said further. “This is not a subjugation, but first of all, it is the unity of the Church of Christ, unity and life.”
12 July 2017, 12:42 | International relations |
“We honor the victims, remembering the tragic events and the understanding of preventing the repetition of terrible events – fratricide. When there is a conflict between Ukraine and Poland, neither party will win,” Deshchytsia said.
12 July 2017, 11:15 | Religious ceremonies and pilgrimage |
Before my departure, Pope Francis personally instructed me to testify to you his affinity, his embrace, his prayers together with the blessing.