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11 August, 2021Breaking news
Reintegration Ministry drafts sanctions package against persecutors of Ukrainian Orthodox Church
Another sanctions package against persons persecuting the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in the occupied Crimea
18 February, 2019Breaking news
Russian Intelligence Services Plan To Attack 20 UOC Churches
The Security Service of Ukraine believes that Ukrainian citizens recruited by Russian intelligence services are planning to attack 20 churches of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)
14 February, 2019Breaking news
Ukraine deports Russia-aligned priest, strips citizenship, in church rift
Ukraine has taken the extraordinary step of deporting a senior cleric of the Moscow-aligned Orthodox Church and stripping him of his citizenship
3 February, 2019Breaking news
Ukrainian Orthodox Church enthrones Epifaniy as leader
The new Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) has installed its first metropolitan, Epifaniy, at a ceremony in Kyiv on February 3, in a process that further establishes the new church body's independence
1 February, 2019Society
Chain reaction
Social and political implications of the emergence of independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church
21 January, 2019Breaking news
Some 100 parishes of former UOC-MP join new Orthodox Church of Ukraine
The communities of the former Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in Vinnytsia region were most active in joining the OCU
14 January, 2019World
Hell hath no fury
How Moscow can respond to the provision of the tomos for the Orthodox Church of Ukraine
6 January, 2019Breaking news
Ukrainian Orthodox Church officially gains independence from Russian Church
Bartholomew I signs the Tomos of Autocephaly, marking the formal independence of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church at the Patriarchal Church of St. George in Istanbul
19 December, 2018
Resilience before the Assembly
The significance and challenges of autocephaly for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
16 December, 2018
The unification council of the Ukrainian Orthodox churches was held at Kyiv's St. Sophia Cathedral
On December 15, the unifying Sobor or Assembly was took place. It declared autocephaly for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, adopt the Church Charter and elect its leader. Bishop of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate, Metropolitan of Pereiaslav and Bila Tserkva Epifaniy (Serhiy Dumenko) has been elected head of the local Orthodox Church in Ukraine.
15 December, 2018Breaking news
Ukraine Orthodox leaders approve break with Russian church
Ukrainian Orthodox leaders on Saturday approved the creation of a unified church independent of the Moscow Patriarchate and elected a leader to head the new church, officials said
14 December, 2018Politics
An act of spiritual independence
On Ukraine’s first steps towards its national Orthodox Church
13 December, 2018Politics
Holy politics
How religious are Ukrainian politicians?
15 November, 2018Breaking news
Kyiv St. Andrew's Church comes under attempted arson attack
The perpetrators assaulted a priest, the report says
13 November, 2018Breaking news
Serbian church 'doesn't recognize' Ukrainian churches
The Serbian Orthodox Church says it will not recognize a decision by the leadership of Orthodox Christianity to rehabilitate the leaders of two Ukrainian Orthodox churches breaking away from Moscow
26 October, 2018Politics
After autocephaly
What to expect after the Ukrainian Orthodox Church receives autonomy
15 September, 2018Breaking news
Russia's Church freezes ties with Constantinople over Ukraine
Russia’s Orthodox Church said on Friday it would no longer participate in structures chaired by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
17 August, 2018Society
The irreversible path
How close is Ukraine to autocephaly for its Orthodox Church?
26 February, 2018Society
Priests and politicians
Compared to many other countries in Europe, Ukraine’s religious life is very active, although there is no state religion. So how do politics and religion work together here?
31 March, 2016Society
Patriarch Filaret: "Almost all Orthodox Churches believe that Ukraine should have its own Church"
Patriarch Filaret of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate on church canonicity and manipulations around it, and independence of Ukrainian Church
23 July, 2015History
The Many Faces of Tradition
How Ukrainians have developed tolerance for other religions
16 July, 2015Society
Freedom of Belief No More
Believers in Eastern Ukraine faced brutal intolerance, repression and murder
8 November, 2012History
Freeing Ukraine from Spiritual Dependence
The creation of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kyiv Patriarchate) 20 years ago was as resolute a step as proclaiming the independence of the Ukrainian state
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Is it possible to separate Pushkin from Putin?
The culture of 'Muscovite Rus' came to form from two heterogeneous sources. The seed of the religious and artistic culture reached Muscovy from southeastern Europe (Byzantium, the Balkans) through Kyiv. On the other hand, the foundation of the political and legal culture came to Muscovy from 'Ulus Jöchi', better known as the Golden Horde. As a result, the Russian "spiritual culture" took the shape of a familiar European facade, behind which a non-European state infrastructure hid.
7 April, ,
Russia says Kyiv ‘changing mind’ in peace talks as Putin warned against chemical weapons
German chancellor Olaf Scholz says Putin’s comments on US biological weapons seemed like an ‘implicit threat’
23 March, ,
In the hands of criminals, history is a deadly weapon
It is us, Ukrainians, and all the citizens of this country, who must keep studying our own history. To defend our land and our country, we must know it better.
20 March, ,
Survey says 86.6% of Russians support the armed invasion of Russia in other European countries
86.6% of Russians tolerate and support the potential assault on the territory of the European Union, including: Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and others as evidenced by the results of the sociological survey conducted by “Active Group”
18 March, ,
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