As Patriarch Kirill and Metropolitan Hilarion heighten tensions and estrangement by truthlessly saying the Ukrainian Catholic Church incited violence in Kyiv and Western Ukraine, the Swiss praise the Moscow patriarchate for its noble…
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2 July 2014 In recent years, relations between the UOC (MP) and the UOC-KP have improved, but after Metropolitan Volodymyr’s withdrawal from active governance of the Church there have been tendencies towards…
2 July 2014, RISU The Churches of World Orthodoxy are affected by the situation in Ukraine. Therefore the way to the Pan-Orthodox council to which many Christians are looking forward will to…
30 June 2014 On June 26, 2014 the Bishops’ Council of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church met in a session in Kyiv. The meeting was chaired by Primate of the UAOC Methodius…
Moscow, June 30, Interfax – On Sunday, Ukrainian army shelled residential districts of Slavyansk again, St. Alexander Cathedral was under fire. “The shelling started in 10:00 a.m. during the Liturgy. People started…
Sloviansk, June 30, 2014 On June 29, in spite of the cease-fire agreement, the Ukrainian troops again shelled residential districts of Sloviansk. The St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral was shelled once more,…
Through the looking glass: June 27, 2014 The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has awarded Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov with an order for “glory and honor.” Patriarch Kirill gave the…
27 June 2014, By Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service Crimean officials deny that a decree which will lead to a substantial rise in the rent the Kiev Patriarchate Ukrainian Orthodox Church…
25.06.2014, Arabinform, Pavel Gusterin, Center for Asia and the Middle East of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies With the election of Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad…
Paul Goble June 25, 2014 Staunton, June 25 – There is no question that the Moscow Patriarchate has alienated many Ukrainians because of its support for Kremlin policy, but a Kyiv analyst…