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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
New Ukrainian village homestead honours all newcomers, says deputy premier | 14 August 2017, 15:55 | Society-digest
Sheptytsky Institute grounded in freedom | 14 August 2017, 15:44 | Society-digest
Ukrainian cathedral restored, ready after 2016 arson | 14 August 2017, 15:35 | Society-digest
Ukrainians outside of Ukraine
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.
18 July 2017, 13:13 | Ukrainians outside of Ukraine |
Peel police investigate small suspicious fire at Ukrainian Catholic church in Canada
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.
6 July 2017, 16:42 | 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.
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.
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.
15 May 2017, 13:17 | Ukrainians outside of Ukraine
Head of UGCC to lead a prayer for Ukraine in Italy
Patriarch will visit the grave of the servant of God Maria Teresa Carloni in Urbania, who was closely related to Patriarch Iosyp Slipyy during his Siberian imprisonment and after his release.
14 May 2017, 12:34 | Ukrainians outside of Ukraine
UOC KP establishes European Exarchates
According to the website, as of May 13, 2017 the UOC-KP in Europe incorporates 44 parishes: Netherlands – 2 parishes, Hungary – 1, Italy - 8 France – 6, Sweden - 5, Germany - 6, Spain - 3, Portugal - 5, Czech Republic - 1, United Kingdom - 1 Lithuania - 1 Finland - 1 Austria - 1 Slovenia - 1, Greece - 1 Switzerland - 1.
11 May 2017, 08:55 | UGCC
Ukrainian Catholic bishops of Canada and USA meet in Glen Cove, NY
The Ukrainian Catholic Bishops of Canada and USA held their annual meeting from May 2nd thru May 4th, 2017 in the Library Building of the Ukrainian Catholic Basilian Fathers at St. Josaphat Monastery located in Glen Cove, NY.
27 March 2017, 22:56 | UGCC
Pope receives Canadian Bishops in ad limina audience. Among them Greek Catholics
Four Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishops (Edmonton, New Westminster, Saskatoon, and Winnipeg)met with pope Francis in a context of ad limina Apostolorum visit of the Canadian bishops
21 March 2017, 10:26 | Ukrainians outside of Ukraine
Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Patriarch Sviatoslav Shevchuk, who is on a pastoral visit to the Argentine Republic, visited the Embassy of Ukraine in Argentina on March 18.
20 March 2017, 09:31 | Ukrainians outside of Ukraine
Head of the UGCC Patriarch Sviatoslav is making a pastoral visit to Argentina from March 17 through 28. According to the Information Department of UGCC, within the visit, the patriarch is to call to several communities in different areas of Argentina and Paraguay.
16 March 2017, 10:12 | Ukrainians outside of Ukraine
7 March 2017, 17:52 | International relations
Russia in the Hague accused of terror and discrimination in Crimea and funding terrorism in Donbas
7 March 2017, 08:56 | International relations