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12 March 2018, 10:05 | Reports |
Lviv to become a center of parish life in Europe
Lviv will host the 30th Colloquium of European Parishes (CEP), which brings together the clergymen and lay people who would like to revitalize their parish life.
12 December 2017, 10:05 | Reports |
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MUSLIMS OF UKRAINE SIGN SOCIAL CONCEPT
The leaders of Muslim community and religious organizations signed a joint document on December 11, 2017 - The Social Concept of Muslims in Ukraine. At a solemn meeting, representatives of Islamic organizations spoke about the history of this document.
25 July 2017, 17:19 | Reports |
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“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.
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The world is thirsty for peace
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Orthodox competition has increased throughout Ukraine since 2000. But has religiosity increased?
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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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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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Russian refugee Muslims may be unable to get asylum in Ukraine
Muslims who flee from Russia due to constant repression may be unable to receive asylum in the territory of Ukraine. In the absence of a clear migration policy, border guards and DHS workers decide for themselves to whom to provide asylum.
This was reported by Enver Kadyrov, lawyer of the NGO Crimean Human Rights Protection Movement, Anvar Derkach, journalist, Eleonora Khisamova, asylum seeker from Almethevsk, Tatarstan (RF), involved in the criminal case of Hizb ut-Tahrir during a conference in the press center of Glavkom.
Strengthening the anti-extremist and anti-terrorist legislation of the Russian Federation has caused a wave of political migrants who are trying to find protection in other countries, in particular, in Ukraine.
“However, in Ukraine, they are confronted with the opposition of the State Migration Service, which has the authority to determine the refugee status,” says Enver Kadyrov.
According to the journalist, people, referring to the war between Russia and Ukraine, are hoping to get asylum easlier, but refugees are disappointed. The Ukrainian Migration Service sees no danger to Muslims in the Russian Federation. He also notes that the border guard service is unjustifiably depriving people of the right to asylum.
“Border guards are the first government officials to meet asylum seekers. Under various absurd pretexts the refugees are not allowed on the territory of Ukraine. Although Ukrainian legislation provides that a border guard worker, whom the seeker has requested, must provide an opportunity to write a statement to the migration service about the desire to get asylum. Unfortunately, this provision of Ukrainian legislation is systematically violated by Ukrainian border guards,” says Anvar Derkach.
Derkach notes that since asylum seekers are officially located outside Ukraine, it is not possible to provide these people with any legal aid.
Four Muslim families from Russia faced this problem. In 2015, in Almetevsk, the Republic of Tatarstan, criminal proceedings were instituted under Article 205.5 of the Russian Criminal Code “Organization of the activities of terrorist organizations and participation in the activities of such an organization” against four Muslims. They were recognized as involved in the Islamic political party Hizb ut-Tahrir, which the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation groundlessly enlisted in terrorist organizations.
“We have become criminals in Russia. We left our homes and we had to flee. Our homes burst unceremoniously, began to carry out searches and declared us terrorists,” said Eleanora Kjisamova, involved in the criminal case of Hizb ut-Tahrir.
The lack of a clear migration policy in Ukraine is a major threat to refugees.
“Ukraine must finally formulate its migration policy as certain laws. There is currently no clear migration policy in Ukraine. Each official or officer of the border guard service does what he wants and behaves as he sees fit. It's hard to control them,” says Derkach.
In the opinion of human rights defender Enver Kadyrov, the situation of the Crimean Tatars in the occupied Crimea is very similar to those who seek asylum in Ukraine.
“This case is similar to what is happening now in Crimea. This event is especially relevant for us on the backdrop of those developing in the Crimea. Because there are similar things happening today, the scenarios are absolutely identical. Participants are also identical - they are Muslims. The anti-extremist and anti-terrorism legislation of the RF, which is recognized by most experts of human rights organizations, is used as an instrument of suppression of dissent both in Russia, and in the annexed Crimea,” Kadyrov summarized.
As reported, Hizb ut-Tahrir is not forbidden and is not considered an extremist organization in Ukraine.

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- 20 April 2018, 12:42
Ну що тут можна вдіяти і вчинити, якщо вони такі, по суті, духовно короткозорі й глухі (а хтось, можливо, і - чомусь - "перелякані"), що впритул ніяк не хочуть (чи просто не спроможні!)
| - 20 April 2018, 12:19
ШАНОВНИЙ,ВЕЛОВС.Я з ВАМИ повністю згіден.БІЛЬШЕ того в міру моєї можливості з цього приводу намагаюсь бити на сполох. Та мені самому дуже страшно, що священики і, тим більше Єпископи УГКЦ, на цю тему
| - 20 April 2018, 12:08
Значит надо возбудить уголовное дело по факту взятки и посадить виновных в тюрьму.
| - 20 April 2018, 11:59
"...УЖЕ К 2050-ГОДУ..." -------- А чи буде (настане) отой "2050-й год"?! ---- Тобто: численні й дуже характерні й красномовні і вже, судячи з усього, ЕСХАТОЛОГІЧНІ (АПОКАЛІПТИЧНІ)
| - 20 April 2018, 11:23
П.С. САМОЕ ГЛАВНОЕ,как всегда, ВПЕРЕДИ.ЧИТАЙТЕ И ГЛУБОКО РАЗМЫШЛЯЙТЕ,ДАРАГИЕ МИХАИЛЫ И НИКОЛАИ ГРИГОРЬЕВЫ... ШИРОКО ИЗВЕСТНЫЙ О. ДМИТРИЙ СМИРНОВ УЖЕ НЕ РАЗ БИЛ ТРИВОГУ И НЕБЕЗОСНОВАТЕЛЬНО УТВЕРЖДАЛ,
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