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14 March 2018, 07:48 | Events & people |
| Keepers of Sloboda Menorah. About the past and the present of Kharkiv Karaites
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 |
| 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 |
| “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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14 June 2018, 08:38 | Andrew Sorokowski's column |
Five Objections to a Patriarchate – and Five Responses
… in view of the prospect of an autocephalous Ukrainian Orthodox patriarchate … recognition of a UGCC patriarchate may be timely.
1 June 2018, 13:26 | Analysis |
All roads lead to Rome. Thoughts following the meeting between the Pope and Metropolitan Hilarion
Rome certainly is the universal See of the Church, even if some do not admit this outright or unequivocally. All roads lead to Rome, even for those who think that they go opposite direction or their own “special way”.
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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Propaganda war against Ukraine's aspirations to gain Tomos on autocephaly | 22 June 2018, 12:24 | Society-digest
Saint's bone, found in rubbish, returned to Catholic Church | 22 June 2018, 12:12 | Society-digest
Why is Rome sidelining the Ukrainian Catholics? | 19 June 2018, 19:33 | Society-digest |
History, archaeology
28 February 2018, 22:32 | Other protestants
"Mennonites have had their moments of horror. One of those was in the 16th century when 4,000 Mennonites were burned at the stake. But this is the second great atrocity in Mennonite history," Loewen said.
12 December 2017, 10:51 | History, archaeology |
Moscow Patriarchate created by NKVD agents, according to SBU documents
The Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, in which Moscow's Patriarch was elected in 1945, was held under the control of the People's Commissariat of State Security (NKVD), which was the Soviet KGB predecessor.
31 October 2017, 12:34 | National religious question |
| Roman Catholics place a memorial sign to Stalin’s repression victims
“This monument is an example of the fact that we must nurture and sow the civilization of love. Avoid sowing hatred. We see an example of hatred - so many people shot and sent to the concentration camps,” says Bishop Leon.
9 October 2017, 10:41 | History, archaeology |
“Photius Schism: History and Legend”, a book presented in Lviv
Patriarch Photius (858-867; 877-886) was undeservedly condemned by the Catholic Church. This opinion was expressed by Fr. Ivan Datsko, president of the UCU Institute of Ecumenical Studies, referring to the study by Frantsishek Dvornik “Photius Schism: History and Legend.” The translation of this book was presented within the framework of the Ecumenical Social Week in Lviv on October 5.
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 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.
15 August 2017, 09:55 | Judaism |
A crypt with fragments of ancient gravestones from Jewish cemetery found in Odesa
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.
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.
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.
16 May 2017, 09:57 | History, archaeology
A unique exhibition of Jewish Heritage opens in Lviv
The exhibition is dedicated to the memory of Maximilian Goldstein – cultural figure of Galicia of the early XX century. According to the organizers, he stood at the origins of creation of the first collections of Judaica in Ukraine and the problems of preserving Jewish culture and its spreading.
2 March 2017, 09:36 | History, archaeology
27 January 2017, 15:17 | Temples, church property |
| A church in Chernivtsi opens the tomb for tourist viewing
A tomb in the church In Chernivtsi will be opened for tourist viewing. It was arranged by Poland, because the Polish soldiers who died in the First World War are buried in the underground part of the Jesuit church of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.
14 December 2016, 13:35 | History, archaeology
Scythian gold: Ukrainian treasures go home
District court of Amsterdam denied to return the Scythian gold to Crimea. Russia gets ready to appeal the decision.
23 May 2016, 10:23 | History, archaeology |
| Archaeologists discovered Jewish apartments of XVIII century near synagogue of Zhovkva
The most interesting excavated rarity is the 400-year-old defensive wall of the town and the well of that time.
13 April 2016, 16:40 | Conferences, seminars, researches |
| Ostroh Academy hosts international conference on Reformation in Eastern Europe
The issue of the Reformation influence on Ukrainian Orthodoxy was further addressed by prof. Volodymyr Burega, rector of the Kyiv Theological Academy of the UOC.
4 April 2016, 14:19 | Editorial news |
| RISU announces contest ‘Sacred Ukraine’
The original local history materials (articles, photo essays) that describe interesting sacral monuments, museum collections, religious history of settlements and localities may participate in the contest.
28 March 2016, 19:32 | Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritance |
Cossack cemetery restored in Odesa
An old Cossack cemetery in Odesa is being restored. Thanks to the help of locals, the graveyard is undergoing a massive face-lift. Residents have already cleared the grounds from shrubs and weeds. They have also recovered several dozens of tombstones.
7 March 2016, 11:45 | Temples, church property |
Photo exhibition of amazing Jewish cultural artifacts opened in Uzhgorod
The exhibition in roll-up format was recreated by the Society of Hungarian artists, architects and Cultural Organization of Jews in Hungary under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Economy and Foreign Affairs of the neighboring country.
2 March 2016, 10:52 | History, archaeology |
Institute of Church History presents exhibition of the Church in catacombs
On the 70th anniversary of Lviv Pseudo-Council in 1946, the Institute of Church History will present the exhibition titled “To light of the Resurrection through the Thorns of Catacombs.” The exhibition features the history of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in underground.