Expert thought
7 November 2018, 10:27 | Andrew Sorokowski's column |
Archimandrite Robert F. Taft, SJ: critic and defender of the christian east
If Christianity is to survive as a viable lifestyle attractive to modern men and women, it will not be as an obscurantist, anti-intellectual culture of folklore and ritualism, sustained by the rejection of modernity and change…. – Archimandrite Robert F. Taft, SJ
3 November 2018, 13:26 | Open theme |
Ukrainian autocephaly. What next? The role of Patriarch Bartholomew
From what is being reported from Ukraine there seems certain misunderstandings as to what is to be done next.
Religious Studies
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?
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.
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Monitoring
Ukraine's Muslims gathered aid for over 150 foreigners and stateless in the Volyn temporary stay center | 16 November 2018, 08:16 | Monitoring
Canada: Holy Spirit Ukrainian Catholic Seminary moves to Edmonton | 15 November 2018, 13:04 | Monitoring
Ukraine church head, 89, ready to rise above Russia rift | 12 November 2018, 19:11 | Monitoring
Church-state relations
20 October 2016, 11:43 | Faith and weapon |
Clergymen and parliamentarians discuss bill on military chaplaincy
At the initiative of the Parliamentary Committee on Culture and Spirituality, a meeting on the legislative regulation of military chaplaincy was held.
19 October 2016, 18:15 | Legislation |
Pro-Russian MPs and representatives of the UOC (MP) oppose the bill amending jurisdiction change
Fundamental human right to freedom of religion implies a free change of jurisdiction of areligious community in respect of which there is no clear mechanism for transition.
12 October 2016, 10:30 | Legislation |
Parliament registers bill on special status of religious organizations of aggressor country
Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on culture and spirituality, MP of People's Front Mykola Knyazhytskyy has proposed to Parliament to approve the draft law on the special status of religious organizations, whose senior centers are located in the state recognized as aggressor country by Ukraine’s Parliament.
7 October 2016, 13:54 | Christians of Evangelical Faith |
Delegates from 16 countries attend Second World Congress of Churches of Evangelical Christians
Over 2 thousand bishops, leaders of missionary ministries and international charitable organizations from 16 countries came to the Second World Congress of Churches of Evangelical Christians, opened on October 6 in Lviv, in the Church “Golgotha.”
6 October 2016, 19:51 | Legislation |
Parliament exempts charitable activities of religious organizations from taxation
The bill supplemented the definition of non-profit organization in the Tax Code, according to which religious organizations are now considered non-profit if engaged in non-profit activities (including implementation of humanitarian aid, charity, philanthropy, charity, etc.).
6 October 2016, 14:56 | Legislation |
Parliamentary Committee supports granting special status to UOC-MP
The Committee on Culture and Spirituality recommended the Parliament to adopt in the first reading Bill 4511 on the special status of religious organizations having their governing centers in Russia as the aggressor State.
3 October 2016, 11:02 | Religion and society |
| Family is a union of man and woman, - Zaporizhya holds second March for Life
On October 2, thousands of people walked in the columns of "March for Life" along the main street of Zaporizhya. This is the second march in the city, organized by the Spiritual Council of Christian Churches of Zaporizhya.
26 September 2016, 11:27 | Church-state relations |
Lukashenko in favor of more active involvement of church in social processes
The church should be more actively involved in social processes, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said at the meeting with the Synod of the Belarusian Orthodox Church on 22 September, BelTA has learned.
23 September 2016, 16:02 | Announcements |
Migration - the main topic of Ecumenical Social Week in Lviv
Traditionally during the autumn season the representatives of various faiths, religious organizations, education, authorities, business, public sector, media and all people of good will gather and share their experience and work out solutions towards social problems.
22 September 2016, 10:02 | Legislation |
Charity endangered: AUCCRO calls parliamentarians to adjust Tax Code
All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations calls on Parliament to support draft law 5050, which eliminates a number of inaccuracies in the Tax Code regarding the non-profit status of religious organizations.
12 September 2016, 12:38 | Church-state relations
Poroshenko congratulated Ukrainian Muslims on Eid al-Adha
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has congratulated Ukrainian Muslims on Eid al-Adha. The text of congratulations has been published on the official website of the President.
9 September 2016, 11:07 | Church-state relations |
Former Presidents of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk and Victor Yushchenko were negotiating with the Ecumenical Patriarch on Ukrainian church issue, and the possible granting of autocephaly.
6 September 2016, 12:27 | Church-state relations |
President Petro Poroshenko thanked MPs for their appeal to Patriarch Bartholomew to grant autocephalous status to the Orthodox Church in Ukraine. He was reported as saying this in his annual address to parliament.
26 August 2016, 21:57 | Church-state relations |
President signs decree on celebrating 500th anniversary of Reformation in Ukraine
The President welcomed the forum and stressed the importance of the decree, which must demonstrate the government’s positing regarding the support of the Protestant religious organizations.
21 August 2016, 10:40 | Faith and weapon |
UAOC hierarch appointed counsellor on religious matters for Ukraine’s Defense Minister
Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine for European Integration Ihor Dolgov met on August 17 with the newly appointed counsellor to Ukraine’s Minister of Defense on religious matters (civic volunteer) a hierarch of Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, Bishop Volodymyr (Cherpak) of Vyshgorod and Podol.
17 August 2016, 19:50 | Freedom of Conscience |
The Ministry of Culture alleges the breach of the rights of religious and ethnic communities in Crimea by occupation authorities of the Russian Federation.
9 August 2016, 10:25 | Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritance |
“Investment and Construction Group” Company refuses to demolish two floors of new buildings on Honchar street, 17-23, according to the Cabinet’s decision. It is fraught with the exception of St Sophia of Kyiv from UNESCO World Heritage Site.
29 July 2016, 11:13 | Church-state relations |
President Poroshenko held meeting with Representative of Ecumenical Patriarchate
President of Ukraine had a meeting with Representative of the Ecumenical Patriarchate Archbishop Job Getcha of Telmessos.
26 July 2016, 12:27 | Church-state relations |
Police to block Orthodox procession in Kyiv to avoid terrorist attacks
Ukrainian minister of internal affairs Arsen Avakov ordered the police and national guard to block the passage of the religious procession organized by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate in Kyiv to avoid the terrorist threats.
1 July 2016, 10:08 | Legislation |
Amendments to law on freedom of conscience evoke discussions among religious figures
Amendments to the Law of Ukraine "On freedom of conscience and religious organizations" were controversially perceived by the religious community. Some religious representatives have significant concerns about the nature of amendments and the procedure of their review.