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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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Rivne region
20 April 2018, 13:02 | Religion and society |
UOC MP representatives obstruct church burial for ATO soldier in a church of his native village
"In Ptycha there is an ATO soldier, who until recently was considered missing. Everyone knows Mykola Humenyuk's story. We conducted a DNA examination that confirmed - Mykola died ... At a meeting (between representatives of the UOC (MP) and the UOC-KP) someone asked: isn’t Mykola worthy to be exhumated in the village so that the burial service was performed for him in his native temple? Ms. Nina Smogileva, a supporter of the UOC (MP), replied to this: "He’s got what he’s earned,” wrote Alina Dubovskaya.
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.
30 November 2017, 10:20 | Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritance |
Rivne Oblast councilors suspect that the synagogue is to be sold
At a meeting of the communal commission of the Rivne Oblast Council, which was held on November 29, the councillors decided to visit Dubno to see with their own eyes the state of the local synagogue.
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).
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.
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.
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.
13 January 2016, 10:26 | Church-state relations |
UOC KP members picket Rivne Administration
On January 12, over a hundreds of believers of the UOC-KP in Dubno district of Rivne region demanded that the Regional State Administration recognize as illegal the transfer of the church premises in Ptycha to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) that took place in 1996.
23 December 2015, 09:48 | Church-state relations |
Religious conflict in Ptycha shall be addressed by church leaders - Rivne Administration
The regional government has neither rights, nor intention to interfere in the conflict between believers of the Kyiv and Moscow Patriarchates of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which continues in Ptycha village, Dubno district of Rivne region.
22 December 2015, 12:08 | Church-state relations
Police restricted access to church in Ptycha village, Rivne region
18 June 2015, 10:39 | Vatican |
Pope Francis blessed a cornerstone for anew Roman Catholic church in Rivn
31 December 2014, 10:21 | Inter-Orthodox relations |
Destiny of contested churches in Rivne region to be decided by court
20 November 2014, 11:20 | Church-state relations |
19 November 2014, 14:47 | Interchurch relations |
UOC (MP) Metropolitan of Rivne and Ostroh withdrew his signature to the Memorandum
Metropolitan also accused the UOC-KP of one more attempt to ‘seize’ churches in Rivne region.
19 November 2014, 13:10 | Moscow Patriarchy |
ROC explained signing of Rivne Memorandum by very strong political pressure
The signing of the Memorandum in Rivne region, calling for the dialogue with a view to establish a unified Ukrainian Local Orthodox Church, attests to the difficult current situation of the the Western dioceses of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), said head of the Synodal Information Department of the Russian Orthodox Church, Vladimir Legoyda to a RIA Novosti/RT journalist, as reported Religion in Ukraine citing the Russian news agency.
14 November 2014, 10:58 | Inter-Orthodox relations |
“The Eparchy of Rivne of the UOC-KP welcomes this initiative, which aims to relieve tension in interfaith relations. We’d like to emphasize that this is a historic event for all of us because it is a real step towards the formation of theone Local Orthodox Church in Ukraine,” states the document.