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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.
Expert thought
19 March 2018, 14:52 | Comments
The world is thirsty for peace
Oksana Bashuk Hepburn, former director with the Canadian Human Rights Commission and president of a consulting firm dealing with international affairs
1 March 2018, 21:06 | Andrew Sorokowski's column |
Orthodox competition has increased throughout Ukraine since 2000. But has religiosity increased?
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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Struggling To Believe: Ukrainian Orthodox Church Under Pressure In Crimea | 19 April 2018, 12:25 | Society-digest |
The Church’s social activism in post-Maidan Ukraine | 17 April 2018, 20:00 | Society-digest |
Ukrainian Archbishop of Philadelphia retires for health reasons | 17 April 2018, 13:47 | Society-digest |
Dnipro region
16 February 2018, 09:26 | Judaism |
OSCE representatives meet with the main Rabbi of Dnipro
Representatives of the Special Monitoring Mission of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (SMM OSCE) met with Shmuel Kamenetsky, the Chief Rabbi of Dnipro city to discuss the issues of security of national minorities, assistance to refugees from the occupied territories and search for ways to stop armed conflict.
6 November 2017, 11:48 | Religious relations |
Patriarch of the UOC-KP Filaret visited the Center “Menorah” on Sunday, November 5, where he met with representatives of the Jewish community and the chief rabbi of Dnipropetrovsk and region Shmuel Kaminetsky.
3 August 2017, 12:01 | Judaism |
Dnipro hanukkiah may appear in Guinness book
The silver hanukkiah recently donated by philanthropist Alexander Petrovsky to the Dnipro Jewish community in local Menorah center may appear in Guinness Book of Records as the largest silver sculpture in the world.
28 March 2017, 11:02 | Judaism
All-Ukraine Olympiad in Hebrew and Jewish literature takes place in Dnipro
This year for the first time Dnipro has been elected to the state Ukrainian students’ Olympiad of Hebrew and Jewish literature. The International Humanitarian Pedagogical Institute “Beit Chana” was elected as the basis for the Olympiad, said Religion in Ukraine with reference to the website of the Jewish community of Dnipro.
15 December 2016, 10:50 | Religious holidays and traditions |
Scouts brought the Bethlehem Light of Peace to Dnipro to pass it further to Ukrainian soldiers
1 December 2016, 10:36 | Faith and weapon |
“We came here to this famous hospital, because there a special place and space where you serve and save the lives of our heroes, see the blood, suffering, tears,” the patriarch said.
15 September 2016, 14:45 | Charity, social service |
| Christians of Evangelical Faith hand over USD 800 thousand aid to hospital in Dnipro
The Christians of Evangelical Faith, who live in Washington state (USA), provided aid to the military hospital in Dnipro in the amount of USD 800 thousand, according to RISU correspondent Sofia Bogutska. Local representatives of the Ukrainian diaspora gathered a huge container of valuable medical goods for trauma and surgical departments.
12 September 2016, 10:00 | Religious relations |
Orthodox Church confers medals for volunteering on Orthodox Jews from Dnipro
During the session of Dnipro city council, chair of patriotic education and chaplaincy department of Dnipropetrovsk Diocese of the UOC-KP Father Dmytro Povorotnyy personally conferred on Hasidim Oleksandr (“Asher”) Cherkassky a medal for volunteering. It was reported by Dniprohrad.
29 June 2016, 10:44 | Interchurch relations |
| Priests of seven churches shoot an ecumenical video for the sake of Ukraine’s unity
In Dnipro city, representatives of seven Christian denominations, united in the Council of Christian Churches of Dnipropetrovsk Region, presented a video entitled “Our Father” as part of a joint project,” RISU correspondent Sofia Bohutska reports.
26 April 2016, 18:10 | Charity, social service |
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| Serving neighbor as Christ Himself - Center of Social Services blessed in Dnipropetrovsk
Today in Dnipropetrovsk the first non-state Ukrainian Unified Social Services Centre founded by Caritas Ukraine was opened. The center’s premises were blessed by Head of the UGCC, Patriarch Sviatoslav (Shevchuk). The premises will host 12 separate projects, whose purpose is to help needy residents of the area, regardless of their confessional or religious affiliation.
26 February 2016, 10:20 | Apostolic Nunciatura |
Apostolic Nuncio Claudio Gugerotti met with IDPs in the Donbass
Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti visited Charity Foundation "Caritas Donetsk."
20 December 2015, 15:23 | Judaism
Ukrainian city to rename street after Rabbi Schneerson
The Ukrainian city where the Lubavitcher Rebbe grew up announced that it will soon name a street in his honor.
21 October 2015, 10:00 | UOC (MP) |
During the visit to Dnipropetrovsk of Metropolitan Onufryof the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), there was no open campaign for candidates to the seat of mayor, however a special diocesan newspaper issue that was distributed published a greeting of one of the electoral contestants.
7 September 2015, 11:57 | Judaism |
13 August 2015, 14:00 | Faith and weapon |
US religious communities donate expensive medical equipment to Ukrainian military hospitals
17 June 2015, 16:36 | Religious intolerance and vandalism |
Holocaust Memorial defaced in Nikopol
On June 16, in Nikopol, the memorial to the Holocaust victims was defaced with swastikas by unidentified persons overnight, the website of Dnepropetrovsk Jewish community reports.
10 March 2015, 09:48 | UOC KP |
The Church supports only just peace, a joint message of the UOC-KP hierarchs from eastern regions
“We do not stand for any peace that our opponents offer us – refuse from Donetsk and Luhansk regions and there will be peace in Ukraine! This is unjust peace. And the Church stands on the basis of justice. It will be just when the borders of our country are preserved,” says the joint statement.
29 January 2015, 09:34 | National religious question |
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