Please follow this link to see more remarkable photographs of the Ukrainian Church, Catholic and Orthodox, united in blessing the people and praying down peace on the armed police and military who have…
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In the land where the Greek Church of the Roman Byzantine empire once brought the Gospel of Christ, the Prince of Peace, to the peoples who are now the Ukrainian, Belarussian and Russian…
Thursday, 20 February 2014 After a night of violent confrontations between protesters and police and the deaths of more than two dozen people, Pope Francis and Ukrainian church leaders spoke out on…
Politics aside, it’s hard to deny that the images beamed to the world from the opening of the Sochi Games were anything short of stunning. Of course, removing the Olympics from political…
As the President of Ukraine continues to assault his own people, constrict their peaceable civil rights and threatens the liberty of the Church, Her Majesty’s Government warns him: “President Yanukovych should be…
Representatives of various denominations take turns in celebrating Mass on Kiev’s Independence Square, the heart of anti-government demonstrations. They were invited by the leaders of the opposition. Churches condemn the streets on…
Please note that the lecture Wednesday 12th February is cancelled, owing to floods and suspended transport. The next lecture will be: Language, identity and inculturation in the Ukrainian Catholic Church – Wednesday,…
Congratulations to our friend Fr James Siemens in Wales, who has set up a chaplaincy for Eastern Christian students in the Welsh capital. A Ukrainian Catholic priest, he is Catholic chaplain at…
While the UK’s Catholic press remains largely indifferent, and the UK press and media in general are unable to analyse what is going on – and the dangers for all Europe: Written by…
Patriarch Sviatoslav (right, Ukrainian Catholic leader) and Patriarch Filaret (left, Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Kievan Patriarchate) together went to Canada and the USA to raise awareness in the West of the crisis for justice…