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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.
17 February 2017, 18:33 | Events & people |
Heroes of our time. A story of a missionary from Avdiyivka
How does it feel - to abandon ambitions or favorite work and go to the east of Ukraine, in the thick of war at the age of 20-22?
21 December 2016, 14:35 | Kaleidoscope |
| Ternopil amateur gives second life to rundown churches
The craftsman has also made architectural models, recreating the original appearance of the temples that have survived altered, and his plans include the creation of a museum of architectural models.
14 December 2016, 11:55 | Reports |
Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti about Vatican diplomacy, Ukraine and Syria
The Vatican’s international relations have their own unique history of diplomacy and influence the course of events. The special status of a mini-state, its uniqueness often allows exerting influence in places and in ways that are inaccessible to secular diplomats.
Expert thought
5 October 2017, 14:29 | James Siemens' column |
As a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church living in Cardiff, Wales, I am faced by the challenge of identifying myself on a regular basis.
16 August 2017, 09:23 | Andrew Sorokowski's column |
Ukrainian autocephaly is a threat to the Moscow Patriarchate’s control of East Slavic Orthodoxy. And the Moscow Patriarchate’s ecclesiastical control over Orthodoxy in Ukraine and Belarus is an important element of the Kremlin’s political control over those countries.
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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Memorial Service for reposed Patriarch Lubomyr Husar in the Patriachal Cathedral in Kyiv
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Have courage, pray fervently, pope tells churches facing persecution | 13 October 2017, 11:38 | Society-digest
Pontifical Oriental Institute: a bridge between East and West | 13 October 2017, 11:21 | Society-digest |
Priest who secretly ministered under Soviet rule moves closer to sainthood | 11 October 2017, 17:32 | Society-digest |
National religious question
9 October 2017, 13:31 | National religious question |
Various forms of national memory should be united in Babyn Yar
“When it comes to a general memorial, for example, I have been saying, for example, for almost 15 years, that I would like to see not a common memorial, but an architectural and landscape ensemble where each group can insert its monument. But they will all be united by a single idea,” says co-founder of the Association of Jewish Community Organizations and Communities of Ukraine.
22 September 2017, 10:02 | National religious question |
Poroshenko calls on UN member states to recognize the Holodomor of 1932-1933 as genocide
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko called on UN member states to recognize the Holodomor in Ukraine in 1932-1933 as an act of genocide, Radio Liberty reports.
29 August 2017, 09:14 | National religious question |
| Victims of Ilovaisk cauldron remembered in prayers in Kyiv
As reported, the main tragic events near Ilovaisk occurred these days in 2014, when the Ukrainian troops suffered the greatest losses. The encircled soldiers were shot dead during an open humanitarian border, which became a turning point in the course of hostilities in eastern Ukraine
24 August 2017, 11:34 | Religion and society |
In his speech to the Parade on the occasion of the 26th anniversary of the Independence of Ukraine, President Petro Poroshenko cited the words of Archbishop Lubomyr Husar of the UGCC.
28 July 2017, 11:45 | National religious question |
Poroshenko asks Constantinople to recognize autocephaly of the Ukrainian Church
Note that July 28 marks the Day of the Baptism of Kyivan Rus - Ukraine. This day the tribute is paid to memory of the Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Volodymyr - who baptized Rus in 988.
13 June 2017, 11:18 | National religious question |
On the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the Vistula Operation Patriarch Sviatoslav (Shevchuk) has issued the message in which urged to remember the innocent victims of the forced deportation and denounce the evils perpetrated against the Church.
19 May 2017, 09:33 | National religious question
Protestants Initiating National Day Of Prayer For Ukraine
The prayer of many-thousand Christians of different confessions and denominations will be held on May 27 at the Palace of Sports in the city of Kyiv, according to the website of the Church of Christians of Evangelical Faith.
15 May 2017, 13:40 | International relations
9 May 2017, 10:23 | National religious question
Interdenominational prayer for victims of the World War II held in Odesa
Orthodox, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and representatives of other religions gathered at the monument to the Unknown sailor in Odesa Shevchenko park. It is reported by Radio Liberty.
3 May 2017, 10:55 | National religious question
28 April 2017, 10:57 | National religious question
This was stated in the Message of the hierarchs of the UGCC in Poland to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Operation Vistula, as reported by the Information Department of the UGCC.
27 April 2017, 09:33 | National religious question
All churches of the UOC-KP pray for victims of deportation during Operation “Vistula”
On Sunday, April 30, all churches of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate will hold funeral prayers for the repose of the victims of the deportation of ethnic Ukrainian population from borderline areas, carried out by the communist authorities in Poland in agreement with the Soviet Union during Operation “Vistula”.
26 April 2017, 13:24 | National religious question
Ukraine remembers in prayers Chornobyl veterans
Today Ukraine remembers one of the largest man-made disasters in the world - the Chornobyl accident. Sorrowful events dedicated to the commemoration of the deceased and injured liquidators were held in each locality.
24 April 2017, 09:41 | National religious question |
Wall of remembrance for those fallen for Ukraine inaugurated in Kyiv
On April 23, 2017, the governor of St Michael’s Monastery, Archbishop Agapit (Humenyuk) celebrated All-Ukrainian prayer service for the fallen defenders and performed the rite of blessing at the Wall of Remembrance for those fallen for Ukraine in 2014-2017, which is placed on the walls of St Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery of Kyiv.
11 April 2017, 14:07 | National religious question |
Exhibition about Josyph Slipyy’s life open at Ukrainian Parliament
On Tuesday, April 11, the exhibition devoted to the life and ministry of Patriarch Josyp Slipyy of the UGCC entitled “Patriarch Josyph Slipyy: Be yourself” was opened in the sidelines of the Ukrainian Parliament.
3 April 2017, 09:44 | National religious question |
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Prayer service for peace in Ukraine held at Sofia square in Kyiv. And in many Ukrainian cities
17 March 2017, 15:00 | National religious question |
Patriarch Filaret and Cardinal Lubomyr Husar addressed Ukrainian parliament
His Holiness, the Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus’ - Ukraine of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kyiv Patriarchate Filaret and Archbishop Emeritus of the Greek Catholic Church, Lubomyr Huzar addressed the assembly.
28 February 2017, 09:45 | National religious question
UGCC Head for the beginning of Lent: the greatest defeat of Ukrainians will be hatred of our enemies
Heroes are born by love – the love for one’s homeland, one’s native land, one’s people,” said the patriarch.
27 February 2017, 10:04 | National religious question
Patriarch Filaret blessed the monument to Olena Teliha - Ukrainian poetess killed in Babyn Yar
Patriarch Filaret blessed the monument and stressed that Ukrainians, when honoring the memory of poetess Olena Teliha, simultaneously pay homage to all the fighters for the independence of our country.
20 February 2017, 15:11 | Church-state relations
President Petro Poroshenko together with his wife Maryna and families of the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred took part in the memorial service for the fallen activists of Maidan in St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery.