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Pope greets pilgrims from the Ukrainian Eparchy of Mukachevo | 12 December 2019, 13:01 | Greece-catholic eparche of Mukachevo |
Religious and human rights activists will jointly oppose religious persecution in occupied Crimea and Donbass | 11 December 2019, 13:10 | Freedom of Conscience |
A new bishop of the RCC in Ukraine ordinated in Zakarpattia | 10 December 2019, 17:44 | Religious ceremonies and pilgrimage |
We ask for the President’s fortitude at the meeting in Normandy format”, - a joint prayer held in Kyiv
| 9 December 2019, 12:18 | National religious question |
UOC-MP secretly ordains a separatist bishop from occupied Crimea | 9 December 2019, 10:15 | Religion and policy |
Expert thought
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.
10 September 2019, 11:16 | Viktor Yelenskyi's column |
Interference impossible to ignore, or what should the state do with religious policy?
All states of the world have in place a policy regarding religion and associations that citizens set up based on this religion's ground. The atheistic government of China and theocratic government of Iran, the mighty United States and tiny Andorra – just every one of them.
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?
Pontifical Oriental Institute: a bridge between East and West
Church leaders from the different Eastern Catholic rites have been gathered in Rome this week to mark the centenary of the foundation of the Pontifical Oriental Institute and the Congregation for Eastern Churches. Pope Francis visited the Institute on Thursday and issued a mesage praising its "high achievements" and reminding it to be always attentive to the "enormous challenges facing Christians in the East".
In 1917, in the middle of the First World War, Pope Benedict XV established the Institute to be a bridge between East and West and to make the rich traditions of the Oriental Churches available to the entire Catholic world. A century on, the Institute maintains a world class reputation for its research, teaching and publishing on all issues of Eastern theology, liturgies, patristics, history, canon law, literature, spirituality, archeology, as well as questions of ecumenical and geopolitical importance.
Jesuit Father David Nazar, is the current rector of the Pontifical Oriental Institute. Born in Canada to a family of Ukrainian origin, he’s a former superior of the Society of Jesus in Ukraine and former Provincial of the Jesuits in the English Canada Province.
He explains that the ‘Orientale’ as it’s known, is a papal institute, entrusted to the Society of Jesus, to focus on matters concerning all of the Catholic and Orthodox Eastern Churches.
Eastern treasures available to all
Since many of the Eastern Churches are smaller and lacking the resources of Christians in the West, he says, the popes were concerned to make sure that the wealth of research on liturgy, ancient traditions, and original manuscripts could be made available to Christians across the globe.
World class library
Fr Nazar says that over the past century, the Jesuits have worked hard to establish a world class library, which was funded for a number of years by friends of Pope Pius XI. It remains second to none in the world, he notes, in the study of the ancient traditions and languages of the Eastern world.
Ancient rites and traditions
Much of this work has been significant for the West as well, he adds, such as the Second Vatican Council’s document on the importance of the Eastern Churches “which would have been unimaginable without the fifty years of research that had been done at the Orientale”.

Monitoring
CRIMEA: UN call to halt Cathedral eviction | 8 December 2019, 16:08 | Society-digest |
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World cannot overcome the current crisis by neglecting the destiny of Ukraine – Soviet dissident | 29 November 2019, 11:00 | Society-digest |
The Ecclesiastical Motherhood of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine | 25 November 2019, 15:16 | Society-digest |
Last comments
- 12 December 2019, 18:28
Защита людей, являющихся заложниками на оккупированных территориях Украины, благородное и справедливое дело, как отдельных лиц, так и организаций, включая международные.
| - 12 December 2019, 16:16
А де ви бачили в сім"ях гідну любов? Особливо у дуже набожних :) Одна показуха: так не роби! туди не ходи! отак не дивися на мене! не цілуй при людях! що ти одягнув на себе - на бомжа схожий!
| - 12 December 2019, 14:01
Й тому надалі старатимуся більше не звертати на цього (пардон) троля-збоченця та його примітивно-кумедні дописи ніякої уваги. :)
| - 12 December 2019, 13:55
Дякую, що долучилися. ---- Одначе нам тут, мабуть, все-таки не варто надто вже захоплюватися "полемікою" з цим (перепрошую) "набитим дурнем" - сексзбоченним ботом-тролем, засланим
| - 12 December 2019, 13:24
Бо ЛГБТ можуть щиро любити, а вони ні, лише по-фарисейськи!... Це такий жарт ??? Сміх та й годі...
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