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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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New Ukrainian village homestead honours all newcomers, says deputy premier | 14 August 2017, 15:55 | Society-digest
Sheptytsky Institute grounded in freedom | 14 August 2017, 15:44 | Society-digest
Ukrainian cathedral restored, ready after 2016 arson | 14 August 2017, 15:35 | Society-digest
Church and school
31 October 2016, 10:39 | Church and school |
Christian education aims to provide moral education based on higher values. Similar projects will be available not only at private institutions in case of the educational reform, which has already been adopted in the first reading in Parliament.
28 October 2016, 10:46 | Church and school |
UGCC Head: Ukraine needs educational reform
This position was outlined by Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Patriarch Sviatoslav on October 28, 2016, during the 88 General Assembly of Catholic Education in Europe Committee (CEEC) in Ukraine.
3 November 2015, 10:16 | Church and school |
Third All-Ukrainian Congress of teachers moral and religious subjects starts in Kyiv
Religious and moral education of Ukrainian youth is a challenge for the entire modern educational system. Chairman of the Public Council under the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine Yuriy Reshetnikov was reported as saying this at the opening of the Third all-Ukrainian Congress of Teachers of Religious and Moral Subjects.
29 September 2015, 20:10 | Conferences, seminars, researches |
| VIII Ecumenical Social Week starts in Lviv
On September 29,the press conference on the occasion of the opening of VIII Ecumenical Social Week entitled “Education for Change: Spirituality and innovation" was held at a small session hall of Lviv City Council.
2 July 2015, 15:44 | Legislation |
President Petro Poroshonko signed the law adopted on June 2 by the Ukrainian Parliament “On amendments to some laws of Ukraine regulating the establishment of educational institutions by religious organizations”.
2 June 2015, 18:16 | Church and school |
Religious organizations granted right to establish secondary schools
On June 2, the Ukrainian Parliament adopted the Law “On amendments to some laws of Ukraine regulating the establishment of educational institutions by religious organizations”. It entitles thereligious organizations, whose regulations (provisions) have been registered according to established procedure, to establish educational institutions (primary, secondary, after-school, vocational and higher institutions).
20 March 2015, 10:10 | Legislation |
Churches will obtain right to establish educational institutions
The Committee on Science and Education decided to support Bill No.1447 on the establishment of national standard education institutions by religious organizations.
6 December 2013, 15:17 | International relations |
International Federation of Catholic Universities (IFCU) has expressed concern and anxiety in connection with the events taking place in Ukraine. "We especially consider unworthy use of brute force against peaceful demonstrators, including tens of thousands of university students who were documented by journalists on camera and shown in the media," says the statement, which is signed by secretary general prof. Msgr.Guy-Réal Thivierge.
7 October 2013, 15:05 | Church and school |
Hungarian official inaugurates renovated Catholic school in Ukraine
State secretary at the Hungarian justice ministry Bence Retvari inaugurated a Catholic school, renovated with the Hungarian government’s help, in Ukraine’s Mukachevo (Munkacs) on Saturday.
16 September 2013, 10:00 | Church and school |
2nd Ukrainian Congress for Teachers of Moral and Spiritual Subjects to Take Place
On 18-19 October, 2013 during The 6th International Forum «The Space of Humanitarian Communication» 2th Ukrainian congress for teachers of morally and spiritually oriented subjects will take place.
18 February 2013, 00:32 | Church and school |
Head of Committee on Education and Science Meets with Reps of Churches of Ukraine
Lilia Hrynevych, head of the Committee on Education and Science of the Supreme Council, met with representatives of the churches of Ukraine. The participants of the meeting discussed questions of state recognition of theological educational institutions.
25 October 2012, 09:15 | Church and school
UOC-MP Promotes Introduction of Christian Ethics Lessons in Ukraine's Schools
The Synod Department of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate on matters of education forwarded a letter to the Ministry of Education with the request to promote the further introduction such subjects as Bible History and Christian Ethics and Basics of Christian Ethics and Christian Ethics in Ukrainian Culture in general education institutions.
27 June 2012, 09:41 | Church and school |
Initiative launched to help development of schools founded by religious organizations
Initiators of the public project Education Platform joined forces to strengthen rights and freedoms during the reform of education in Ukraine so they are in line with European educational strategies, reports the Institute for Religious Freedom.
23 May 2012, 10:23 | Religion and society |
Participants of Interreligious Roundtable Support Optional Religious Education Classes
On 22 May, as part of the International Family Week, upon an initiative of the Association of Large Families of Sevastopol, a unique round table was held with the participation of Catholics, Orthodox, Protestants and Muslims.
30 April 2012, 12:44 | Church and school |
UOC-MP To Build A Gymnasia Near Kyiv
Metropolitahn Volodymyr of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate signed a document authorizing the start of designing works and preparation for the construction of an Orthodox gymnasia in the town of Vyshneve near Kyiv.
15 December 2011, 12:43 | Church and school |
Religious Ministers Pleased with Activity of Public Council of Ministry of Education
The Public Council of the Ministry of Education and Science on matters of cooperation with churches and religious organizations on December 14 held a meeting to analyze the results of its activity in 2011.
25 October 2011, 14:56 | Legislation |
Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate Intends to Introduce Orthodox Education at Schools
For that purpose, UOC-MP initiates changes to the Constitution of Ukraine and the Law of Ukraine “On Education” and intends to make amendments to the Law of Ukraine “On Freedom of Worship and Religious Organizations”
19 October 2011, 09:50 | Church and school |
Orthodox Gymnasium in Luhansk Cut off from Gas Pipeline
The Orthodox Gymnasium of the Holy Martyr Barbara (Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP)) cannot begin the heating season due to indebtedness.
2 September 2011, 08:42 | Church and school |
First Christian Collegium School Opened in Ukraine
In the western Ukrainian city of Ternopil, Ukraine’s first Christian collegium school has been opened. It bears the name of Patriarch Josef Slipyj.
1 September 2011, 09:11 | Church and school |
Church Gives Blessing to Teachers and Students for New Academic Year
Traditionally, before the beginning of the new academic year, prayer services for schoolchildren, students and teachers are conducted in churches and cathedrals.