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In various ways the Churches and other religious organizations of Ukraine influence their society and society likewise exerts its own influence on religion.
Articles on social themes:
A Council without Conciliarity or Rebellion in Odessa
01.04.2009, [13:17] // Analysis & comments //
Yaroslav CHMELNYTSKYI, UOC-KP priest
(Notes of a witness to a local council meeting of the UOC)
It was at a meeting of Ukrainian Orthodox Church delegates in Kyiv on 17 January, which was officially presented as a forward to the Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, that I saw for myself that such things happen. The main event of the forthcoming nation wide council in Moscow is the election of a new patriarch. The council’s agenda should also include the status of the UOC, whose bishops asked for autocephaly in 1991, and many other things. Indeed, Ukrainian delegates had much to talk about.
The Market for Church Services
10.11.2008, [08:26] // Analysis & comments //
Artem HOLUBENKO, Orthodox, economist-marketing specialist, lives in Makiivka, in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Region, one of the authors of the resource „Khata - a portal of Ukrainians of the Donetsk region” (hatanm.org.ua)
The Long Road in Church Sand-drifts
05.08.2008, [12:56] // Analysis & comments //
By Myroslav MARYNOVYCH, vice-rector of Ukrainian Catholic University, president of Religion and Society Institute
We are losing! … The Positions of the Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine Look Losing under Any Scenario of the Celebration of the 1020th Anniversary of the Baptism of Kyivan Rus
23.07.2008, [17:51] // Analysis & comments //
Oleksandr SOLDATOV, Portal-credo.ru, 15 July 2008 (original in the Russian language)
One year after the judgment Svato-Mykhaylivska Parafiya [St. Michael’s Parish] v. Ukraine: Background and consequences
23.07.2008, [17:48] // Analysis & comments //
Hennadii DRUZENKO, vice-president of the Institute for European Integration, legal adviser for Ukrainian Parliamentary Committee on European Integration
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01.04.2009, [13:17] // Analysis & comments //
Yaroslav CHMELNYTSKYI, UOC-KP priest
(Notes of a witness to a local council meeting of the UOC)
It was at a meeting of Ukrainian Orthodox Church delegates in Kyiv on 17 January, which was officially presented as a forward to the Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, that I saw for myself that such things happen. The main event of the forthcoming nation wide council in Moscow is the election of a new patriarch. The council’s agenda should also include the status of the UOC, whose bishops asked for autocephaly in 1991, and many other things. Indeed, Ukrainian delegates had much to talk about.
The Market for Church Services
10.11.2008, [08:26] // Analysis & comments //
Artem HOLUBENKO, Orthodox, economist-marketing specialist, lives in Makiivka, in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Region, one of the authors of the resource „Khata - a portal of Ukrainians of the Donetsk region” (hatanm.org.ua)
The Long Road in Church Sand-drifts
05.08.2008, [12:56] // Analysis & comments //
By Myroslav MARYNOVYCH, vice-rector of Ukrainian Catholic University, president of Religion and Society Institute
We are losing! … The Positions of the Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine Look Losing under Any Scenario of the Celebration of the 1020th Anniversary of the Baptism of Kyivan Rus
23.07.2008, [17:51] // Analysis & comments //
Oleksandr SOLDATOV, Portal-credo.ru, 15 July 2008 (original in the Russian language)
One year after the judgment Svato-Mykhaylivska Parafiya [St. Michael’s Parish] v. Ukraine: Background and consequences
23.07.2008, [17:48] // Analysis & comments //
Hennadii DRUZENKO, vice-president of the Institute for European Integration, legal adviser for Ukrainian Parliamentary Committee on European Integration
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- Religious Freedom in Ukraine: The Current Context
- Canonical territory of the Moscow Patriarchate. An analysis of contempory Russian Orthodox thought — pdf-format — Fr. J. Buciora of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada
- Memory on the Pope
- The Destiny of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church at the Beginning of the 21st Century
- Interreligious relations
- Church Strength in Ukraine and How Religious is Ukraine? Results of Survey Research
- Interconfessional Intolerance in Ukraine
- The Need for Reform in Orthodoxy
- The Processes of Institutional Religion in Ukraine
An analysis of the official government statistics from 2001 regarding religious groups in Ukraine (Statistics given in our Resources section) - Protestants in the Former Soviet Union: What Survey Findings Reveal
- Religious Freedom Report on Ukraine (U.S. State Department), released on 31 March 2003
- Religious Freedom Report on Ukraine (U.S. State Department), released on October 26, 2001
- Religious Mass Media in Ukraine
- Social Problems in Ukraine and the Response of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church to the Challenges of the Times
- Ukraine responds to the Papal Visit
Brief articles on how Pope John Paul II's visit to Ukraine in June 2001 was received by different groups, secular and religious
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“I would like in ten years for Ukraine to already have a unified national church!”13.10.2009 // interview //
Interview with Bishop MAKARII (Meletych), Archbishop of Lviv of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, on the affairs of the UAOC, its relations with the Ecumenical Patriarchate, and inter-Orthodox relations in Ukraine.
“The Argument that Autocephaly in Ukraine is Impossible Because Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus Constitute One Indivisible Spiritual Space Is Powerless if We Take into Account the History and Modern System of the Orthodox Church”16.09.2009 // interview //
Interview with Archimandrite Job (Getcha), Doctor of Theology, clergyman of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, on the significance of the primacy of Constantinople, world inter-Orthodox relations, and the issue of Ukraine
“The patriarch gave the Ukrainian society one of the strongest reintegration messages in all of the history of independent Ukraine”17.08.2009 // interview //
Interview with Viktor YELENSKYJ, prof. of philosophy, religious studies, publicist, member of expert council of RISU
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Address of the Head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate on the Day of Remembrance of Political Repressions and Holodomor Victims
07.12.2009, [10:14]
Website of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate, 30 November, 2009
Address of the Holy Synod to the Faithful Children of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
01.12.2009, [21:27]
Archbishop Mytrofan of Bila Tserkva and Bohuslav : "The aim of the dialogue is restoration of the church unity"
28.10.2009, [10:19]
07.12.2009, [10:14]
Website of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate, 30 November, 2009
Address of the Holy Synod to the Faithful Children of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
01.12.2009, [21:27]
Archbishop Mytrofan of Bila Tserkva and Bohuslav : "The aim of the dialogue is restoration of the church unity"
28.10.2009, [10:19]
