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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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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
Land and property problems
19 July 2017, 13:00 | Land and property problems |
OSCE holds a seminar on peaceful relations between religious communities in Lviv
The event lasts almost a week, during which participants will be able to listen to lectures and advice from experts from Scotland, Poland, Italy, and the USA, to discuss and dialogue with each other within the specified topics.
29 June 2017, 09:48 | Freedom of Conscience |
| In Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi the UOC-KP remind of her rights in a religious procession
On the Constitution Day, the Diocese of Odesa of the UOC-KP held a religious procession in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi. The faithful of the UOC-KP reminded in this manner the constitutional norm of religious freedom that was violated in the city.
25 April 2017, 09:55 | Land and property problems
UOC (MP) invents a way to leave communities without property in case of denomination change
With the help of ordinary church charters, the Ukrainian communities can be deprived of their property and denied any opportunity to influence the order in their church. Most believers do not know anything about the new documents that clergymen extensively approve.
7 April 2017, 16:11 | UGCC |
Head of the UGCC makes a first visit to Poltava
On the feast of the Annunciation, April 7, Patriarch Sviatoslav (Shevchuk), the Head of the UGCC, visited Poltava. The purpose of his visit was to bless a land plot for a new church and meet with the faithful.
19 December 2016, 12:47 | Land and property problems |
| Roman Catholics of Rivne want to repossess their church
The building, erected in 1897, was the church of St. Anthony until 50's of the last century. Then the Soviets destroyed a part of it, including the Baroque spiers, opened there a cinema theatre, and in the 80's – an organ hall. Since Philharmonic is the municipal institution of the Regional Council, the Roman Catholics reached out to the council members to regain possession of the church.
6 December 2016, 15:29 | Terrorism |
In Horlivka, a Seventh Day Adventist church seized, all property confiscated
Note that in September 2014, when Horlivka was already beyond the Ukrainian government’s control, armed men kidnapped Adventist pastor Serhiy Lytovchenko in the house of prayer during communion. The kidnappers justified their actions by saying “this is an Orthodox land and it has no place various sects.” The pastor was liberated from prison only after 20 days.
5 May 2016, 08:59 | Land and property problems |
Kherson City council members oppress Muslim communities, later state
For the six consecutive years, the Muslim community have appealed to local authorities for permission to develop land management documents, necessary for the construction of the places of worship and a cultural center.
19 February 2016, 14:06 | Land and property problems |
Ukrainian Orthodox bishop of Kyiv Patriarchate in Crimea: I will stay in Crimea
“I did everything that depended on me as a ruling bishop of the UOC-KP and on my priests. If we've made any mistakes, we would have long been liquidated, and we would not have been in Crimea. We saved the diocese, the church, the faithful,” he added.
18 February 2016, 09:47 | Land and property problems |
Catholics of Odessa request their property from authorities
Some 50 Catholics gathered in Odessa on February 17, near the building of Odessa Regional State Administration to announce their demands. According to the priest Yuri Nagornyy, rector of the Roman Catholic parish in Suvorov district, there have been no responses to repeated appeal to regional leaders. Meanwhile, the Catholics of Odessa are concerned about the provision of return of religious property under which they can claim for the property, which had become subordinated to the state during the Soviet era, Informer.od.ua reports.
10 February 2016, 11:10 | Church-state relations |
UOC (MP) distorted my words about religious conflicts in Ptycha, says YURASH
On February 6, the website of the “Union of Orthodox Journalists” made public the information that the spokesman of the UOC (MP) “caught the Ministry of Culture official in the manipulation with judicial decisions in the interests of the UOC-KP.”
29 January 2016, 09:40 | Land and property problems |
Occupation authorities seize premises of the UOC-KP cathedral in Simferopol (Crimea)
28 September 2015, 11:24 | Land and property problems |
Paid thugs and UOC (MP) representativesattempted to seize a UOC-KP church in Transcarpathia
A religious war broke out in the village of Pylypets in Zakarpattia region. The cause of the confrontation was the transition of the UOC (MP) community to the Kyiv Patriarchate and the defense of their property right to the local church.
25 September 2015, 09:58 | Land and property problems |
Vinnytsia residents asked President to protect church in the city center
An appeal from Vinnytsia residents was posted on home page of the President of Ukraineofficial website on September 19, 2015.
22 September 2015, 14:33 | Land and property problems |
Confrontation over Katerynivka church results in clashes
It all started over the fact that the UOC (MP) community had prevented the UOC-KP communityto exercise its right to alternate worship for a long time. When the Kyiv Patriarchate believers managed to enter the temple, almost immediately about 200 supporters of the UOC (MP) arrived and started an assault.
18 August 2015, 14:20 | Land and property problems |
Nuns of St Harlampius convent ask Petro Poroshenko too delimit their monastery from the prison
28 May 2015, 10:51 | Temples, church property |
Rent of St. Andrew's Church in Kyiv by UAOC discontinued
The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church may be deprived of the cathedral. The Ministry of Culture of Ukraine has discontinued the agreement on shared use of the building of St. Andrew's Church in Kiev, whose term expired in March 2015. This was reported by the Ministry of Culture at the request of Ukrayinski Novyny.
3 February 2015, 13:43 | Church-state relations |
21 January 2015, 20:34 | RCC in Ukraine |
Lviv Roman Catholics to sue local authorities in Strasbourg
The parish of St. Anthony in Lviv will defend their rights to former parish house in Strasbourg court.
17 October 2014, 11:37 | Inter-Orthodox relations |
Chief legal adviser of the UOC (MP) tries to prove the UOC-KP is guilty of raiding
The UOC (MP) attempts to prove that transitions of the parishes from their confessions to the Kyiv Patriarchate, which have become common to date, are illegal. They call them ‘raiding’, ‘seizure by force’, carried out by the priests of the UOC-KP with ‘support of local government’, this was stated in the text of Archpriest Alexander Bakhov, head of the Synodal Legal Department of the UOC (MP), which is posted on the official website of the Church.
3 February 2014, 16:54 | Land and property problems |
Jewish Community in Lviv Denied Ownership of Synagogue Complex
The Economic Court of Lviv dismissed the lawsuit of the Lviv Jewish religious community Turei Zahav (Golden Rose) against the Lviv City Council, in which the community challenged the decisions of April 14, 2005, and May 5, 2007, on the sale of plots on 28 and 23 Fedorova Street.