RISU: 10 July, 2014 Today the Ukrainian Orthodox Churches of the Kyiv and Moscow Patriarchates are close to unification. Ph.D. of religious science Yuriy Chornomorets expressed this opinion on air of BTB…
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PRAVMIR. July 8, 2014. Archpriest Roman Baranovsky, confessor of the St. Panteleimon Athonite metochion in Kiev, related how their church has been assisting refugees from the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. For several…
Ecumenical difficulties by Mathew Block, 7. 8. 14, First Things The outcome of the dialogue in Tallinn was sobering, as it is difficult to come closer on substantive issues. The question…
Andrei Malgin, Moscow Times, on Patriarch Kirill’s award to the leader of the Russian Communist Party, 8 July 2014 Not much in modern Russia surprises me anymore, but last week I got…
07/08/2014, by Nina Achmatova The Assembly of bishops is set to meet on 13 August. Moscow wants to prevent the proclamation of autocephaly and unity with the Orthodox Church of Kyiv. Ukrainian…
Moscow, July 4, Interfax – The share of Russian citizens considering themselves Orthodox grew from 52% in 1997 to 68% in 2014, sociologists of the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM) said citing a…
5 July 2014 On behalf of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Patriarch Svyatoslav (Shevchuk) extended his condolences to the UOC-MP in connection with the departure into eternity of Metropolitan Volodymyr (Sabodan). This…
05 July 2014 – Patriarchia.ru The monks of the Holy Transfiguration Valaam monastery have sheltered 116 refugees from Eastern Ukraine in their metochion in Priozersk. This was related by Vasily Rulinsky, press…
Most Russians (43%) would treat as quite favourable their close relative’s decision to enter a monastery. PRAVMIR. July 1, 2014. The All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) has reported what, according to…
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…