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…
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Patriarch Sviatoslav with Orthodox and Protestant Church leaders (with the Armenian and Latin archbishops to his left) meeting President Yanukovich to repeat his pleas for peace, justice and democracy on Friday. According to…
While the Vatican, and UK and Ireland Conferences wait for the moment to speak in solidarity with fellow Catholics of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church: The Most Reverend Paul-André Durocher, Archbishop of…
The Archbishop of New York supports the EuroMaidan movement for peace, justice and democracy in Ukraine – in view of the attempt last week to suppress the Ukrainian Catholic Church and inhibit…
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…
(Vatican Radio) The head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, Major Archbishop Sviatoslav (Shevchuk) is calling on Ukrainians to join in prayers for peace and unity as they celebrate the Divine Liturgy on…
There are many reasons to be hopeful about the direction of Catholic-Orthodox dialogue but it is threatened by tensions emerging within the Orthodox Church. As the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity…
See the posts below for the letter from the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture and news comment The reason for such a reaction by the government office is religious activity, allegedly carried out by…
The Ukrainian Government’s Attempted Repression of the Ukrainian Catholic Church The religious dimension of the EuroMaidan protests in Ukraine these past two months has gone largely unremarked. Yet in Kiev and elsewhere,…