As crisis deepens, churches harbor the injured and officials appeal for peace, freedom of citizens, writes Jonathan Luxmoore from Poland for OSV Newsweekly 5th March 2014 As the political situation in Ukraine’s…
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Bishop Borys is the President of the Ukrainian Catholic University, the only Catholic higher education institute in the former Soviet bloc, its founding Rector and now Bishop of the Eparchy of Ukrainian…
“We unequivocally affirm that responsibility for the current escalation rests solely on the government – personally Viktor Yanukovych and his “hawkish” command. Every case of escalation, each more striking in its complete…
Scarcely a few weeks ago, a professor of the Ukrainian Catholic University was hauled before the courts on trumped up traffic charges to intimidate him and harass UCU’s long standing commitment to anti-corruption…
We have received the following email from the Ukrainian Catholic University. It is important to read it in this context: Since the protests began following the government’s decision to reject association with…
Interview with SSJC Committee Member in Catholic World Report The Reverend Doctor Athanasius D. McVay specializes in the 20th-century history of Vatican diplomacy and of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. He co-edited…
The “brutal” crackdown on demonstrators in Ukraine is acting as a recruiting sergeant for the protest movement, according to a senior bishop, who described the country as engaged “in a battle for…
Ukrainian Orthodox priests and monks prayer for peace before both the protestors and police George Weigel writes: Last Thursday, in response to new and draconian laws that abridged their civil liberties, several…
The Ukrainian government of President Victor Yanukovych, who caused surprise a few months ago when he unilaterally withdrew Ukraine from a long-running process of effecting an “association” between with the European Union, in…
George Weigel writes: The Ukrainian popular uprising of late 2013 was not motivated by an unquenchable thirst for MTV and other expressions of western decadence. It was motivated by a deep yearning…