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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
Culture
21 September 2017, 10:02 | History, archaeology |
Kuwaiti Archaeologists Discover Rare Arabic Manuscripts in Mount Athos
A Kuwait University archaeological team has discovered rare manuscripts written in Arabic at Mount Athos in Greece.
18 September 2017, 11:20 | Religious ceremonies and pilgrimage |
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| Thousands of Christians take to the streets to listen to Nick Vujicic in Kyiv
On September 17, 2017, a legendary motivational speaker and philanthropist Nick Vujicic - a man without arms and legs was speaking on Khreshchatyk in Kyiv. About half a million people came to listen to him, says "Channel 5".
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.
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.
18 August 2017, 11:32 | History, archaeology |
Archaeologists find unique artefacts in the territory of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra
Large-scale archaeological excavations have been completed on the territory of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra in the Metropolitan’s Garden. The research has been conducted for two years, Segodnya newspaper reports.
17 August 2017, 10:29 | Announcements |
The International Interdisciplinary Certificate Program For Hebrew And Biblical Studies
The Center of Jewish Studies at the National University of Ostroh Academy (hereafter, NUOA) announces the start of registration for Fall session (13-23 November) of the Interdisciplinary Certificate Academic Program for Hebrew and Biblical Studies (hereafter, the Program).
15 August 2017, 09:55 | Judaism |
A crypt with fragments of ancient gravestones from Jewish cemetery found in Odesa
7 August 2017, 12:15 | Religious ceremonies and pilgrimage |
| During the pilgrimage of Melitopol-Zaporizhzhia the pilgrims covered 200 km
27 July 2017, 09:26 | UOC KP |
ATO participants to head this year the religious procession of the UOC-KP
The religious procession, organized by the UOC-KP on July 28 is to be led by the ATO participants alongside the Church's leaders. According to UNIAN, the patriarchal governor Metropolitan Epiphanius told journalists about it.
24 July 2017, 15:49 | Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritance |
Nearly 1.2 mln UAH allocated to reconstruct the convent of Armenian Benedictines in Lviv
The stone restoration is carried out by Ukrainian and German specialists within the project "Municipal development and renovation of the ancient part of Lviv" (GIZ). The city budget allocated for restoration about 1.2 million UAH.
24 July 2017, 15:01 | UOC (MP) |
UOC-MP to hold festivities on July 27-28 in Kyiv
On July 27, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church will hold a prayer service on St Volodymyr’s Hill and the religious procession on the central streets of Kyiv with the miraculous icons, and on July 28 a festive Divine Liturgy will take place on the square in front of the Holy Dormition Cathedral of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra.
21 July 2017, 10:20 | Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritance |
Ancient Lutheran church being restored in Odesa region
In Dolynivka village (Bilhorod-Dnistrovsky district) the restoration of an ancient church is underway. According to IzbirKom, at the expense of the local budget, they are currently installing a fence, which will protect the building from the destruction and intrusion of offender.
21 July 2017, 10:16 | History, archaeology |
Virtual map of Christian and Jewish sights of Inter-War Period in Rivne
On July 19, an updated virtual map of the sites of historical and cultural heritage “Polycultural Rivne” was presented.
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.
6 July 2017, 14:40 | History, archaeology |
| Remains of ancient temple or Necropolis found on Podillia
A sensational discovery was made during the construction of a museum of regional studied in Horodok (Khmelnytsky region). Digging a trench, the builders found a curb tile, in which they found the inscription in Latin. As journalist-ethnographer Dmytro Polukhovych told RISU, experts assume that this is a block of a destroyed church or an old necropolis.
28 June 2017, 10:27 | Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritance
Ancient Roman Catholic hurch of Archangel Michael in a small town of Tyvriv, which is located in Vinnytsia, is returned to life. With the restoration of the church, where the Soviet government arranged a plant and set up a laundering facility at the most sacred place of the temple, a cultural Christian center of the all-Ukrainian level should appear, UNIAN-Religion reported referring to Urban, a magazine of Vinnytsia.
26 June 2017, 09:55 | Religious ceremonies and pilgrimage |
Ukrainian Pilgrims in St. Peter's Basilica prayed for peace and unity of Christians in Ukraine
Bishop Josaphat Kuntsevich of the UGCC (1580-1623) became famous for his religious activities after the announcement of the Union of Brest on the unification of the Orthodox and Catholic Churches under the jurisdiction of the Pope.
26 June 2017, 09:27 | Religious holidays and traditions |
Ukrainian Muslims celebrate Eid al-Fitr
The holiday of Eid al-Fitr, referred to as Uraza-bayram among Crimean Tatars is celebrated today in the Muslim world. Millions of believers mark the ending of holy month Ramadan, which also means the end of the month-long strict lent.
14 June 2017, 10:53 | History, archaeology |
| Mass graves of NKVD victims found in Lutsk
Near the Castle of St. Michael the Archangel’s Monastery UOC-KP, in the area of Stary Lutsk Reserve on June 13, a mass grave of victims of the shootings of June 23-24, 1941 was exhumated. All these people - Lutsk prison inmates, mostly political, were suspected of having links with the OUN, former priests, teachers and doctors and intellectuals. According to preliminary data, in the first days after the attack of Nazi Germany on the Soviet Union, about 2,000 people were executed. Later these events were called a tragedy of Lutsk prison. It was reported by RISU correspondent Larysa Andriychuk.
5 June 2017, 14:30 | Religious ceremonies and pilgrimage |
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| Patriarch Lubomyr finds his last rest in the Patriarchal Cathedral crypt
During the memorial service some faithful were holding banner with a slogan Subito Santo (Sainthood Now!).