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Bishops of UGCC and RCC of Ukraine Discuss Questions of Cooperation28.11.2008, [13:44] // UGCC //
Lviv—On 28 November, a joint meeting of the members of the Synod of Bishops of the Supreme Archbishopric of Kyiv and Halych of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and the Conference of Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church of Ukraine is being held in the western Ukrainian Lviv-Briukhovychi. The conferences are attended by all the Catholic bishops of Ukraine. The aim of the meeting is to show the unity of the faith despite the differences in culture and rite.
Kyivan Patriarchate Explains True Reason for Appearance of Address by Ex-Archbishop of Donetsk and Mariupol
28.11.2008, [13:40] // UOC-KP //
Kyiv—The press service of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kyivan Patriarchate published a statement in response to the address of Archbishop Yurii (Yurchyk) of Donetsk and Mariupol against Patriarch Filaret, for which the archbishop has recently been dismissed. The statement describes the true reason for the appearance of the mentioned address. RISU’s Ukrainian-language web page posted this story on 27 November.
UOC-MP Orthodox Metropolitanate in Kyiv Warns Against Attempts to Politicize Address of UOC Synod
28.11.2008, [13:37] // UOC-MP //
Kyiv—The website of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate posted, with the blessing of Metropolitan Volodymyr of Kyiv and All Ukraine, a statement of the chancellery of the Kyivan Metropolitanate “with regard to the attempts to politicize the Address of the Holy Synod of UOC and to interpret it incongruously with its content.” The statement is signed by the Secretary of the Head of UOC, Bishop Oleksandr (Drabynko) of Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi. RISU’s Ukrainian-language web page posted this story on 25 November.
Head of the Conference of Roman Catholic Bishops of Ukraine Calls Faithful of the Latin Rite to Remember Victims of Holodomor28.11.2008, [13:32] // RCC //
Vatican— Head of the Conference of Roman Catholic Bishops of Ukraine, Metropolitan Mechyslav Mokshytskyi called the faithful of the Latin Rite in his pastoral address to remember in prayers the victims of the Holodomor and to ask the Lord “to protect our country from such events in the future.” RISU’s Ukrainian-language web page posted this story on 24 November.
Kyivan Patriarchate Excludes Bishop of Donetsk and Mariupol from Episcopate
27.11.2008, [14:47] // UOC-KP //
Kyiv—On 26 November, a meeting of the Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kyivan Patriarchate was held. The synod considered the address of Archbishop Yurii (Yurchyk) of Donetsk and Mariupol to the episcopate of UOC-KP, in which he criticized the activity of Patriarch Filaret regarding the unification of the Ukrainian Orthodoxy and announced that the head of UOC-KP would not be mentioned in the services in the parishes of his eparchy. In view of the above, the Synod of UOC-KP decreed “to exclude Archbishop Yurii (Yurchyk) from the episcopate of UOC of Kyivan patriarchate and prohibit him to perform the ministry.”
Action on Occasion of St. Nicholas Day Unites Christian Churches of Ukraine
27.11.2008, [14:45] // Inter-Christian relations //
Lviv—Hierarchs of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kyivan Patriarchate and Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church gave their blessing for the organization of the All-Ukrainian ecumenical charitable action “St. Nicholas travels through Ukraine.” So reported www.zaxid.net. The organizers are waiting for responses of the hierarchs of the Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine, Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church and Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate. RISU’s Ukrainian-language web page posted this story on 25 November.
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of USA Participates in Special Program in UN Commemorating 75th Anniversary of Holodomor
27.11.2008, [14:38] // Foreign relations //
On Tuesday, November 25th, 2008, Protopriest Bazyl Zavierukha and Protopresbyter Frank Estocin, at the request of Archbishop Antony, Consistory President represented the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA at a special program held in the United Nations, commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Holodomor – 1932-3 Genocidal Famine in Ukraine.
Sponsored by the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the United Nations, the program was held in the Dig Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium, and featured a review of the political machinations of the Communist Regime, which resulted in the death by forced starvation of 10 million or more souls – men, women and children. Opening and concluding remarks were given by Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, the Honorable Yurii Serheiev. The position of Master of Ceremonies was held by Attorney Askold Lozynskyi, who presented recently discovered information pertaining to this, Ukraine’s darkest historical period.
Patriarch Filaret Challenged By Donetsk Archbishop
27.11.2008, [13:19] // UOC-KP //
Donetsk—On 25 November, 2008, the clergy and laity of Donetsk and Mariupol Eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kyivan Patriarchate gathered in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk. The meeting’s subject was unification of Ukrainian Orthodoxy and start of a negotiation process between the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. In addition, the meeting addressed support of President Yushchenko’s initiatives, aimed at overcoming the divisions in Ukrainian Orthodoxy. Archbishop Yurii criticized the activity of Patriarch Filaret regarding the unification and proposed an initiative to start the negotiation on the unification of the Ukrainian Orthodoxy into one local Orthodox Church himself.
Lutsenko Claims Involvement of Embassy of God Church in Activity of King’s Capital Financial Group
26.11.2008, [15:19] // Protestant //
Kyiv—According to UNIAN information agency, Yurii Lutsenko, Minister of Internal Affairs, has claimed at a press conference on 25 November that the religious organization of Sunday Adelaja Embassy of the Blessed Kingdom of God is involved in the activity of the King's Capital financial group.
Lviv Mayor Asks Ukraine’s President to Initiate Granting of “Repressed” Status to Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church26.11.2008, [15:16] // UGCC //
Lviv—In his address to Ukraine’s president, the Mayor of the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, Andrii Sadovyi noted that “numerous incidents of repressions against the faithful and ministers of the UGCC, including deportation to Siberia, the expropriation of property, and the destruction of churches or use thereof for non-intended purposes present evidence of purposeful activity aimed at the forced liquidation of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church as such.” Sadovyi stressed that it was for this purpose that “the regime of that time inspired the organization in March, 1946 of the Lviv pseudo sobor of UGCC, which proclaimed its annexation to the Russian Orthodox Church, despite the fact that none of the bishops of that Church participated in that gathering, as they were already arrested.” RISU’s Ukrainian-language web page posted this story on 24 November.
The mayor’s address includes a request that Victor Yushchenko “as the supreme official of the Ukrainian state, initiate granting the status of “repressed church” to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and let it be the subject of a legislative initiative to consider this issue in Ukraine’s Parliament, if the need arises.”
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