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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.
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14 June 2018, 08:38 | Andrew Sorokowski's column |
Five Objections to a Patriarchate – and Five Responses
… in view of the prospect of an autocephalous Ukrainian Orthodox patriarchate … recognition of a UGCC patriarchate may be timely.
1 June 2018, 13:26 | Analysis |
All roads lead to Rome. Thoughts following the meeting between the Pope and Metropolitan Hilarion
Rome certainly is the universal See of the Church, even if some do not admit this outright or unequivocally. All roads lead to Rome, even for those who think that they go opposite direction or their own “special way”.
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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Why is Rome sidelining the Ukrainian Catholics? | 19 June 2018, 19:33 | Society-digest |
Ambassador Gingrich accuses Russia of persecuting minorities | 19 June 2018, 17:42 | Society-digest |
Ukraine’s Greek Catholic chief sees ‘no choice’ but dialogue with Russia | 19 June 2018, 17:38 | Society-digest |
National religious question
18 June 2018, 13:44 | National religious question |
Memorial to four church ministers killed by the DNR militants unveiled in Slovyansk
In Slovyansk, Donetsk region, a memorial was opened to commemorate the four servants of the local Protestant church “Transfiguration of the Lord”, whom the Russian mercenaries had abducted, tortured and killed four years ago.
26 May 2018, 23:58 | International relations |
Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Andriy Parubiy, while in Georgia on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the First Republic of Georgia, noted that the restoration of autocephaly is keeping step with the restoration of statehood. At a briefing, he said he would discuss the issue of supporting autocephaly of Ukraine and with the President of Georgia, with the Head of Parliament and with His Holiness Patriarch Ilia II, because "the support of the Georgian Orthodox Church is highly important for Ukrainian autocephaly.” This is reported by the official website of the Ukrainian Parliament.
16 May 2018, 10:38 | National religious question |
President prayed for the future and unity of Ukraine in the Cathedral of Vyshhorod
President Petro Poroshenko took part in the divine service for the future and unity of Ukraine during a working visit to Kyiv region.
11 May 2018, 10:42 | National religious question |
UGCC proclaimed the year of prayer for honest elections of 2019
This is stated in the Address of the Synod of Bishops of the Kyiv-Galicia Major Archeparchy of the UGCC to the faithful, Ukrainian politicians and all people of goodwill concerning the electoral process in Ukraine, reports the Information Department of the UGCC.
9 May 2018, 09:11 | National religious question |
Authorities and heads of Ukrainian Churches participate in “First Minutes of Peace” action
On May 8, 23:00, the memorial complex “National Museum of Ukrainian History in the Second World War”, hosted the event "First Minute of Peace.”
8 May 2018, 09:40 | National religious question |
“For 20 years, a generation has grown up that took weapons against their state, and to a large extent it was done through the church, people with the icons stopped our columns of armored vehicles and tanks in Donbas, the priests were running with rifles and racking up polling stations,” he says.
2 May 2018, 12:57 | National religious question |
Patriarch Filaret prayed for Ukraine in the European Parliament
Patriarch Filaret will also visit Ukrainian servicemen who undergo rehabilitation at a military hospital in Brussels and will meet with the Ukrainian community in Belgium.
27 February 2018, 12:04 | National religious question |
The concept of freedom includes two components: freedom from oppression, enslavement, exile and deprivation of liberty, as well as freedom to self-determination, the free choice of one's own path of development, the unimpeded implementation of the gifts and talents of individuals and of society as a whole.
18 February 2018, 10:56 | National religious question |
Ukraine pays tribute to Heavenly Hundred
From 18 to 20 February, a series of memorable events, dedicated for this date, are to be held at Kyivan Maidan - the Independence Square.
7 February 2018, 13:05 | International relations |
Bill on recognition of Holodomor in Ukraine as genocide submitted to Israeli Knesset
An explanatory note to the draft law says that the Holodomor was planned by "the Soviet authorities to strike at the Ukrainian nation and Ukrainian national identity"
29 January 2018, 11:03 | National religious question |
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| Ukraine remembers 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 2018, 10:54 | National religious question |
Ukrainians celebrate 100 years of the Independence, the Unity Day, and form "human chain" in Kyiv
12 January 2018, 10:31 | National religious question |
The Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk joined the IV international flash mob «United Ukraine» before the Day of Unity of Ukraine, January 22, UGCC press office informs.
28 November 2017, 08:04 | National religious question |
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew calls to stop the war and aggression in eastern Ukraine
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew called to put an end to the war and aggression in eastern Ukraine. This is stated in the message of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on the occasion of the 84th anniversary of the Holodomor in Ukraine.
27 November 2017, 09:56 | National religious question |
On November 25, in memory of the Holodomor in Ukraine, in his Sunday sermon and a special message Patriarch Bartholomew commented on the atrocities towards the Ukrainian people which involved the organized famine during the first half of the twentieth century.
25 November 2017, 18:18 | National religious question |
The President has stressed that non-recognition of the Holodomor is as immoral as the denial of the Holocaust.
25 November 2017, 13:54 | National religious question |
25 November 2017, 10:31 | National religious question |
| Ukrainians commemorate Holodomor victims
At 16.00, candles of memory will be lit in each home and office to observe a nationwide minute of silence.
22 November 2017, 11:08 | National religious question |
A concept of Babyn Yar Memorial Center for the Holocaust presented in Kyiv
On November 21, Shevchenko Kyiv University hosted a public discussion of the concept of the Holocaust Memorial Center Babyn Yar, according to ‘Yevreyski Novyny’ (Jewish news).
20 November 2017, 12:13 | National religious question |
Chaly: It’s time for US to officially recognize Holodomor as genocide
Kyiv intends to seek from the U.S. the recognition of the Holodomor of 1932-1933 as genocide of the Ukrainian people, Ukrainian ambassador to Washington Valeriy Chaly has said.