The Kyivan Patriarchal Church of Ukraine is not currently recognised by other Orthodox Churches as canonical at the insistence of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate from which it seceded…
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19 March 2014, 12:34 Minister of Culture of Ukraine Yevhen Nyshchuk called on Crimeans to maintain interreligious peace and tolerance. “The Maidan showed how various denominations can coexist peacefully. The whole world…
We have just received this message: “Archbishop Klyment reports that Kyiv Patriarchate parishes have been visited by representatives of the Moscow Patriarchate and told that Moscow will take over their buildings as…
17 March 2014, 13:52 On March 17 in Luhansk, the Ukrainian Orthodox Churches of the Moscow Patriarchate and the Kyivan Patriarchate were called to dialogue. With a proposal to create a committee…
By Sophia Kishkovsky | Religion News Service, Published: March 14 MOSCOW — As Russian troops massed on Ukraine’s border and a controversial secession vote in Crimea approaches Sunday (March 16), Patriarch Kirill…
Speaking at the Ukraine Crisis Media Center on March 13, Patriarch Filaret, the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kyiv, condemned the Russian occupation of Crimea. Filaret said, “Russia has embarked…
by Gabriel S. Sanchez, 14 March 2014 Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium, raised eyebrows within and beyond the Catholic world for what the Sovereign Pontiff had to say on things economic.…
March 14, 2014 The announced 2016 council of Eastern Orthodox Churches is historic, but expectations should be modest Fr. Cyril Hovorun, Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) An Assembly (Synaxis) of the Primates…
11 March 2014 – The Council of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate (UOC-KP) adopted and issued a statement today on the results of the Synaxis – a gathering of the Primates of…
Would Like Persecuted Christians, Cult of Consumption, and Destruction of Morals to Be on Agenda Moscow, March 11, 2014 (Zenit.org) Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has said preparations for the…