Simon Shuster / Simferopol @shustry March 15, 2014 Archbishop Kliment, in Simferopol, Ukraine, March 2, 2014. Yuri Kozyrev—NOOR for TIME Archbishop Kliment of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church -Kyivan Patriarchate became a national…
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It is clear that the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is being targeted by the Russian occupying forces in Crimea. In January, the Ukrainian Catholic Church was threatened by the then President of Ukraine,…
March 14, 2014 – The announced 2016 council of Eastern Orthodox Churches is historic, but expectations should be modest – Fr. Cyril Hovorun An Assembly (Synaxis) of the Primates of the local…
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…
March 13 at 3:29 pm, The Washington Post The following is a guest post by Mara Kozelsky, a historian at the University of South Alabama who studies Crimea in the Russian Empire.…
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.…
A wonderworking Athonite icon of the Theotokos, with the epithet “Joy and Consolation”, which was considered lost, was found in a monastery in the region of Ryazan and will be returned to…
Bishop Borys Gudziak says the ouster of President Yanukovych was a step towards a freer country and could lead to a new spiritual reality, but Ukraine’s journey from ‘fear to dignity’ is…
Analysis/comment via Reuters and the Chicago Tribune. The other view is that Patriarch Kirill is not an arm of the Russian state, still less Putin’s regime, but a pre-eminent influential body in national…
By Phil Lawler (bio – articles ) | March 06, 2014 5:47 PM Pay close attention to the latest news about the effort to convene a meeting of all the patriarchs of…