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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National religious question
21 February 2020, 09:47 | National religious question |
On February, 20 at 19:00, bells in the temples of the UGCC remembered great sacrifice of the Heroes of the Maidan in the struggle for the freedom and independence of Ukraine. Such an order was issued by His Beatitude Sviatoslav in response to requests from the families of the Heroes of Heavenly Hundred.
18 February 2020, 12:39 | National religious question |
Ukraine pays tribute to Heavenly Hundred’s heroes with prayer services and processions
On this day, 6 years ago, the most tragic stage of the Revolution of Dignity began in Ukraine. In the period from February 18-20, 2014, about a hundred people died in the center of Kyiv, dozens were missing, more than a thousand were injured, and hundreds were arrested antortured.
29 January 2020, 10:25 | National religious question |
Ukraine commemorates decisive 1918 battle of Kruty against russian bolsheviks
Today Ukraine commemorates the heroes of the Battle of Kruty. The battle took place on Jan. 29, 1918, when a 400 soldiers unit of the Ukrainian forces (300 of them were students) briefly halted the advance of a 4.000 Red Army marching towards Kyiv.
22 January 2020, 10:09 | National religious question |
Ukraine marks the Day of Unity on January 22, the day when the Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR) and the Western Ukrainian People's Republic (WUPR) signed a Unification Act in 1919.
20 January 2020, 11:26 | National religious question |
Holodomor is not a tragedy but genocide, - Zelensky
For Ukraine, the Holodomor of 1932-1933 is genocide, not a social or economic tragedy, as someone tries to present it.
9 December 2019, 12:18 | National religious question |
Today, on the day of the meeting in the Normandy format, representatives of Churches and religious organizations gathered in the "Ukrainian House" in the center of Kyiv. The goal is a common prayer for a just peace in Ukraine.
25 November 2019, 10:02 | Ecumenical Patriarchate |
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| Ecumenical Patriarch served a memorial service for Holodomor victims
In Istanbul, a Divine Liturgy and a memorial service were served for the victims of the Holodomor of 1932-33 in Ukraine with the participation of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew.
23 November 2019, 18:57 | National religious question |
Leaders of Churches and religious organizations of Ukraine, representatives of the authorities and the diplomatic corps today held a funeral procession to the sculpture "Bitter Memory of Childhood" on the territory of the National Museum of the Holodomor-genocide in Kyiv.
23 November 2019, 08:24 | National religious question |
Ukrainians commemorate Holodomor victims
Ukraine commemorates today the victims of the Holodomor famines - millions of innocently murdered Ukrainians destroyed by the totalitarian communist regime. The Holodomor Victims Remembrance Day is marked annually on the fourth Saturday of November under the presidential decrees of 1998 and 2007.
8 November 2019, 19:39 | National religious question |
“Course of history cannot be stopped! To be continued!” Petro Poroshenko about the OCU recognition
The fifth President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, stressed in his video address that the recognition of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine by the Patriarchate of Alexandria, which is one of the oldest in the world, continues the process of becoming of the independent Ukrainian Church and makes it stronger.
27 August 2019, 09:28 | National religious question |
Poroshenko says attempts being made to attack army, language and faith
Ukraine's fifth president Petro Poroshenko has stated that currently attempts are being made to carry out attacks on the information space, in particular, attacks on the army, church and language.
24 August 2019, 14:53 | National religious question |
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree on marking the Day of Remembrance of the Defenders of Ukraine fallen in the struggle for independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine on August 29. The Head of State announced this during the Independence Day festivities.
24 August 2019, 13:48 | National religious question |
Ukrainians pray for peace and independent Ukraine
In all churches of Ukraine, prayer services for the Homeland are dedicated to the 28th anniversary of Independence. The main prayer, as previously reported, was held in St Sofia of Kyiv where leaders of all Churches and religious organizations prayed for peace and prosperity in Ukraine.
24 August 2019, 12:52 | National religious question |
On August 24, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the First Lady Olena Zelenska took part in festivities on the occasion of the 28th anniversary of Independence of Ukraine.
22 August 2019, 08:57 | National religious question |
In Sambir, Lviv region on August 21, the ceremony of unveiling of the 'Remember' memorial complex that commemorates the victims of the Second World War in Ukraine was held. A memorial cross for the OUN–UPA soldiers victims of Nazism was blessed at a former Jewish cemetery.
19 August 2019, 09:54 | National religious question |
On August 31, at 13.00, the architectural andsculptural composition "Bell of Remembrance will be unveiled and blessed at the Memorial of victims of political repression of the Communist regime in Ukraine, which is located at the Yanovsky cemetery, August 31. Thousands of Ukrainians who were innocently killed in 1839-1941 will be also honored. It was reported by the LMR press-service.
26 July 2019, 13:34 | National religious question |
Religious and public figures, human rights defenders and relatives of hostages and prisoners agreed to cooperate together to release Ukrainian citizens who are illegally detained in Russia and in occupied Crimea and Donbas as a result of Russian aggression against Ukraine.
17 July 2019, 10:02 | National religious question |
Head of OCU greets Ukrainians on entry into force of the law on language
Primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Metropolitan Epifaniy of Kyiv and all Ukraine greeted Ukrainians on the entry into force of the law on the state language in Ukraine.
19 May 2019, 11:49 | National religious question |
Ukrainians honor victims of political repressions
On May 19, Ukraine commemorates victims of political repressions. This day, the victims of Soviet policy in the 1920s-1980s are remembered, Gazeta ua reports.
13 May 2019, 08:41 | National religious question |
Kyiv remembers deported Crimean Tatars
Commemoration of the victims of the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people is necessary in order to prevent such catastrophes from being repeated. This was stated by the head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, MP of Ukraine Refat Chubarov during an event in Kyiv arranged to commemorate the victims of the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people in 1944, Ukrinform reports.
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