Expert thought
7 November 2018, 10:27 | Andrew Sorokowski's column |
Archimandrite Robert F. Taft, SJ: critic and defender of the christian east
If Christianity is to survive as a viable lifestyle attractive to modern men and women, it will not be as an obscurantist, anti-intellectual culture of folklore and ritualism, sustained by the rejection of modernity and change…. – Archimandrite Robert F. Taft, SJ
3 November 2018, 13:26 | Open theme |
Ukrainian autocephaly. What next? The role of Patriarch Bartholomew
From what is being reported from Ukraine there seems certain misunderstandings as to what is to be done next.
Religious Studies
25 September 2018, 14:21 | Religious studies |
A Different Approach to the Ecclesiastical Discussion about Ukraine
The first question that arises concerning Ukraine is this: with what right and based on which holy canons, does Russia today claim the ecclesiastical and administrative dependency of the Metropolis of Kyiv?
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.
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Monitoring
Ukraine church head, 89, ready to rise above Russia rift | 12 November 2018, 19:11 | Monitoring
Tectonic Plates of Ecumenism Shifting Prompted by Tomos | 9 November 2018, 11:18 | Monitoring
UGCC Bishop Hlib Lonchyna in Australia: Patriarch Joseph will be remembered for unifying our church which now exists on all continents | 7 November 2018, 08:45 | Monitoring
Land and property problems
3 August 2018, 10:57 | Inter-Orthodox relations |
After Tomos, no violence for redistributing church property will burst out
The statements about the "seizure of churches", the possibility of a “civil war” once the Tomos of autocephaly is issued are an example of the Kremlin’s misinformation, a lie that is part of a hybrid war against Ukraine.
30 July 2018, 12:47 | Land and property problems |
Jewish community of Chernihiv stands for its synagogue where Youth Theater is located
The issue of the building of the Youth Theater takes center stage in Chernihiv. Now, the Jewish community of the city is trying to return this building because it is a former synagogue.
3 April 2018, 14:04 | Land and property problems |
New development in the confrontation between UOC-KP and UOC (MP) in Ptycha village in Rivne region
On April 2, villagers entered the church on a court ruling to lift an attachment of the church property. Litigation on this case has continued four months. Religious communities of the Moscow and Kyiv Patriarchates pretend to own the temple.
2 April 2018, 11:16 | Land and property problems |
Roman Catholics in Sevastopol conduct festive Paschal service in front of closed church
On Easter Sunday, April 1, the Roman Catholic community of Sevastopol prayed on the street in front of the church's closed door. The worship was held by a priest of the UGCC, who read out the greetings from the Metropolitan Lazar of Simferopol and the Crimean (Moscow Patriarchate) and Fr Serhiy Haliuta, dean of Sevastopol deanery, reports Krym.Realii.
12 February 2018, 13:45 | Land and property problems |
UOC-MP collects 1200 signatures to legalize unauthorized constructions near the Church of Tithes
The petition “On the provision of the right to freedom of religion of the faithful of the UOC-MP and public order around the Church of Tithes (chapel) was sent to the head of Kyiv City State Administration Vitakiy Klitschko on February 8, 2018. 12 thousand signatures under the appeal were collected within three days. This is reported by the Information and Educational Department of the UOC-MP (MP).
21 November 2017, 11:22 | Land and property problems |
Seized premises of the UOC-KP to be passed to Crimean Ministry of Property
In early 2016, the Crimean Diocesan Department of the UOC-Kyivan Patriarchate, according to the decision of the “Arbitration Court of the Republic of Crimea,” was deprived of parts of the premises in the center of Simferopol, which houses the Cathedral of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles, Prince Volodymyr and Olga.
26 October 2017, 13:33 | Land and property problems |
Head of the UGCC comments on the conflict concerning the Holy Annunciation Church in Kolomyia
24 October 2017, 11:01 | Protests and conflicts |
On June 5, the Holy Annunciation Church, which is in use of the religious community of the UOC (the Moscow Patriarchate), was blocked and sealed under public pressure.
20 October 2017, 13:06 | Religion and society |
Holocaust memorial center will be built at Babi Yar
In September at Babi Yar created a Lapidarium of tombstones of the old Jewish cemetery.
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)