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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
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.
7 July 2017, 13:28 | Interview |
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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Monitoring
The Moscow "papacy"? | 20 September 2017, 19:01 | Society-digest |
Pilgrims return to abandoned coal town for worship and fellowship | 29 August 2017, 17:45 | Society-digest |
Pa. town just a memory, but thriving parish now a pilgrimage site | 25 August 2017, 15:26 | Society-digest
Ukraine and world
20 September 2017, 12:36 | Ukrainians outside of Ukraine |
The Hierarchs of the Church Met with the President of Ukraine
On Monday, September 18, 2017 His Eminence Metropolitan Antony and Archbishop Daniel participated in the meeting of the Ukrainian-American Community and the representatives of the Crimean Tatar organizations with the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and his wife Maryna at the Ukrainian Museum in New York City, NY.
6 September 2017, 14:44 | Protests and conflicts
UOC-MP files complaint with OSCE on persecutions of believers in Kotyuzhyny
A meeting of representatives of the religious community of the UOC-MP in the village of Kotyuzhyny in Ternopil region led by their pastor with the representatives of the OSCE monitoring mission in Ukraine, took place on September 5 on the premises of the village council of Velyky Viknyny, Zbarazhsky district.
4 September 2017, 11:10 | Religious intolerance and vandalism |
President Poroshenko calls to stop attacks on the Ukrainian Church in Crimea
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called unacceptable the attack on the Church of the Holy and Equal-to-the Apostles Prince Volodymyr and Olga of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kyiv Patriarchate in Simferopol in the occupied Crimea. The President’s press-service reports him as saying this during a meeting with the Heads of Churches and Heroes of Ukraine on September 2, 2017.
15 August 2017, 16:31 | Ukrainians outside of Ukraine
We thank our Lord God from the bottom of our hearts for this wonderful gift – an independent and sovereign state
11 August 2017, 10:44 | UGCC |
The newly ordained Bishop Andriy Rabiy will be formally welcomed in the Ukrainian Catholic Metropolia of Philadelphia with his celebrating a Hierarchical Divine Liturgy in the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Philadelphia on Sunday, September 24th, 2017 at 3 p.m.
8 August 2017, 14:51 | UGCC |
Ukranian archeparchy in Philadelphia gets a new auxiliary bishop
The date of his episcopal ordination has not yet been set, but is expected to be announced soon.
21 July 2017, 09:48 | Religion and policy |
Ruling Bishop of UOC MP Diocese of Luhansk met with OSCE representatives
On June 18, 2017, Metropolitan Mytrofan of Luhansk and Alchevsk met with Principal Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine and Deputy Coordinator of the OSCE Observer Group in the Lugansk region Almir Mehanovic at his work residence.
18 July 2017, 13:13 | Ukrainians outside of Ukraine |
Peel police investigate small suspicious fire at Ukrainian Catholic church in Canada
12 July 2017, 12:42 | International relations |
“We honor the victims, remembering the tragic events and the understanding of preventing the repetition of terrible events – fratricide. When there is a conflict between Ukraine and Poland, neither party will win,” Deshchytsia said.
10 July 2017, 16:19 | Ukrainians outside of Ukraine
70th anniversary of the Ukrainian settlement in Australia
Senior officials of Ukraine have congratulated Ukrainians of Australia on the 70th anniversary of the settlement on the Green Continent.
7 July 2017, 10:42 | Faith and weapon |
"Look closely at their faces" - Ukrainian art project at G20
In Hamburg, where the G-20 Summit will begin this Friday, the posters were placed featuring portraits of Ukrainian military, chaplains, volunteers, and doctors who resist Russian aggression in the ATO area. Among the sixty project participants we see the faces of three military chaplains of the UGCC: Fr. Igor Fedorishin, Fr. Taras Kotsyuba and Fr. Andriy Zelinsky.
6 July 2017, 16:28 | Ukrainians outside of Ukraine |
St. John the Baptist Parish in Australia celebrated 65th anniversary
Ukrainians in Australia are celebrating 70 years of Ukrainian immigration, while the Ukrainian Catholic Parish is celebrating 65 years of organized life.
5 July 2017, 17:09 | Ecumenical Patriarchate |
"We are close to you", - Ecumenical Patriarch to Ukrainian journalists
3 July 2017, 09:03 | Ukrainians outside of Ukraine |
UGCC Head visits the most distant parish of Arizona
This parish is the most distant in the Diocese of Chicago - more than 2,800 kilometers from Chicago.
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.
9 June 2017, 15:32 | International relations |
Chairman of Ukrainian Parliament met with Cardinal Pietro Parolin
On June 5, this year, Chairman of Ukrainian Parliament Andriy Parubiy met with Secretary of State of the Holy See (Head of Government) Cardinal Pietro Parolin.
9 June 2017, 10:24 | Ukrainians outside of Ukraine |
| Ukrainians built one of the biggest churches in Brazil
On June 4, the rite of consecration of the Holy Trinity Church for the Ukrainian community was held in the Brazilian municipality of Sao Jose dos Pinhais (Parana), Marcelino settlement. Local Ukrainians have been striving to do this for almost a century.
5 June 2017, 09:28 | UGCC |
Catholic University of America Mourns the Passing of Cardinal Lubomyr Husar
Cardinal Husar was a University alumnus and the recipient of an honorary degree in 2007.
18 May 2017, 10:44 | Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritance
Poles will restore Lviv Cathedral
In particular, it is referred to the Latin Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary costing about UAH 1.47 million; the Armenian Cathedral of the Assumption (the cost of this year's restoration work will be UAH 913,000).
17 May 2017, 09:19 | International relations
Russian religious foundations placed on sanction lists
Among the list of entities subject to the sanctions was Valeriy Kaurov, head of the “Union of Orthodox Citizens of Ukraine,” acting against the territorial integrity of Ukraine. He appears in hacked mail of Kirill Frolov, who planned civil disobedience in Ukraine.