Expert thought
2 January 2020, 15:59 | Analysis |
Ukrainian Orthodox Church 2019 – results of the year
The past year has highlighted two main areas of development. First, it is the recognition of the OCU, actual first, by virtue of concelebration of individual clergymen, and further at the level of Synodal decisions and concelebration of the Primates. Secondly, the transformation of the ROC into a mono-national church
13 September 2019, 14:53 | Open theme |
Ukrainian autocephaly. After one year
All this past year the CEMES foundation worked on a scholarly project, which examined the Ukrainian crisis from a theological, historical and canonical perspective, always in relation to the triptych: Primacy-Conciliarity-Autocephaly.
Religious Studies
22 November 2018, 14:51 | Religious studies |
In the context of recent events in the Orthodox world, disputes over the boundaries of church institutions often arise between the Patriarchate of Constantinople, Kyiv and Moscow. Ukraine accuses Russia of misappropriating the territory of the Kyiv Metropolis.
25 September 2018, 14:21 | Religious studies |
A Different Approach to the Ecclesiastical Discussion about Ukraine
The first question that arises concerning Ukraine is this: with what right and based on which holy canons, does Russia today claim the ecclesiastical and administrative dependency of the Metropolis of Kyiv?
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Islam
1 February 2020, 16:20 | Islam |
Majlis leader Refat Chubarov sharply criticizes police raid near the mosque
On Friday, January 31, near a mosque in Kyiv, the Migration Service and police detained Muslims as part of a raid to identify illegal migrants.
1 February 2020, 13:16 | Islam |
20 people detained near a mosque in Kyiv without documents: sheikh Ismagilov outraged
In Kyiv, people near the mosque of the Islamic cultural center were asked to produce their IDs. According to the Mufti of the Religious Administration of Muslims of Ukraine ‘UMMA’ Said Ismagilov, more than 20 people were detained after the ID checks.
22 January 2020, 10:37 | Freedom of Conscience |
The Pro-Russian TV channel "Millet", created by the Russian government for the Crimean Tatar audience, summing up the results of 2019, said that over the past year for the Muslims of the Crimea, the authorities of the annexed Peninsula have done a lot of useful things, Radio Liberty reports.
16 January 2020, 10:11 | Freedom of Conscience |
A case against Imam for “illegal missionary activity” brought in Crimea
In Crimea, the Prosecutor's Office has instituted a second administrative case for allegedly conducting "illegal missionary activity".
9 January 2020, 12:40 | Religion and policy |
Iran against the US: Religious scholar explained what the Ayatollah wants
Religious scholar Dmitry Horyevoy commented live on ObozTV on what Iran is striving for as a theocratic state, where the supreme religious leader - the Ayatollah - is vested with power.
20 December 2019, 13:55 | Islam |
Former Izmail mosque of the XVI century to be listed among UNESCO World Heritage Sites
23 November 2019, 17:58 | Islam |
The largest mosque in Ukraine to be built in Kyiv
In the center of the capital, the Crimean Tatar community will build the largest mosque in Ukraine. It will receive up to 5 thousand believers.
14 November 2019, 11:01 | International relations |
All materials on Crimeans as part of the Russian "Cases of Hizb ut-Tahrir" were transferred to the international courts, the Deputy permanent representative of the President of Ukraine in the ARC, Tamila Tasheva reported in live braodcast of Krym.Realii radio, the Radio Liberty Project.
20 October 2019, 11:40 | Religion and policy |
Crimean defendants in "Hizb ut-Tahrir case" might be committed to a psychiatric hospital
Russian investigators want to arrange an examination of the defendants in the second Simferopol "case of Hizb ut-Tahrir" in a psychiatric hospital, Eden Semedlyaev, the lawyer of Remzi Bekirov told Krym.Realii
30 September 2019, 11:26 | Islam |
The Eastermost mosque of Ukraine opens in Severodonetsk
In Severodonetsk, Luhansk region, the easternmost mosque of Ukraine was opened. The mufti of the Religious Administration of Muslims of Ukraine "Umma" Said Ismagilov.
13 September 2019, 10:00 | Church-state relations |
Occupants plant weapons and religious literature on Crimean Tatars - human rights activist
In Russia-occupied Crimea, religious literature is planted on Crimean Tatars during the searches, which allegedly attests to their affiliation with Hizb ut-Tahrir - religious organization banned in Russia.
6 September 2019, 11:47 | Religious intolerance and vandalism |
Occupants lay water duct across Muslim cemetery in Crimea
The construction works to lay a water duct are being carried out at the site of the Muslim burial in Kirov district of Russian-occupied Crimea, owing to which the burial is being destroyed.
5 September 2019, 13:15 | World news |
UN releases first report of Secretary General on human rights violations in Crimea
The United Nations has released the first report by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on human rights violations in annexed Crimea. The report is published on the UN website. It will be presented at the 74th session of the UN scheduled for September
23 August 2019, 11:33 | Islam |
Ummah Mufti Said Ismagilov: Sale of New Zealand terrorist's manifesto in Ukraine is provocation
The sale in Ukraine of the so-called "Manifesto" written by Brenton Tarrant, who shot believers in two mosques in New Zealand, is a provocation, and security services should find out who benefits from it.
13 August 2019, 10:42 | Islam |
The Leninsky District Court of the Russian Rostov-on-Don city has extended the arrest of four Crimean Tatars in the “Hizb ut-Tahrir case” from the so-called “second Simferopol group,” the Crimean Solidarity reports.
11 August 2019, 08:53 | Religious holidays and traditions |
Ukrainian muslims celebrate Eid al-Adha
Muslims of different nationalities have gathered in the Ar-Rahma mosque in Lukyanovka district and started celebrating the Eid al-Adha.
9 August 2019, 14:23 | Announcements |
Ukrainian Muslims to donate record amount of meat for Eid Al-Adha
On August 11, the Muslim community of Ukraine will celebrate the main holiday in Islam - Eid al-Adha. Activities will be held in all branches of the Religious Administration of Muslims of Ukraine, while in Kyiv, large-scale events will be held in the Cathedral mosque "Ar-Rakhma", which will bring together more than 4,000 believers.
4 June 2019, 13:13 | Religious holidays and traditions |
Muslims celebrate Uraza Bayram today
The Feast of the Breaking of Fast or Uraza Bayram is one of the most important events in the Islamic world, whose celebration begins after the sunset on the last day of the Ramadan and lasts for three days.
4 June 2019, 13:06 | Religious holidays and traditions |
Zelensky greets Ukrainian Muslims on Uraza Bayram
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky congratulated the Muslims of the country on the holiday of Uraza-Bairam, which concludes Ramadan. It is reported by Interfax-Ukraine.
31 May 2019, 15:50 | Freedom of Conscience |
As of April, 57 Muslims arrested in Crimea
In April, the total number of people deprived of liberty in the case of Crimean Muslims was 57 people. The Monitoring overview of the human rights situation in Crimea in April of the Crimean Human Rights Group (KPG) has reported this, according to UNN.
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