Rome, May 20, 2014 (Zenit.org) A Ukrainian Orthodox priest has been killed in the eastern part of Ukraine, another casualty in the country’s ongoing crisis. According to a report by the Religious…
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A few notes before reading this fair-minded Reuters report. 1. The Byzantine Church of what is now Ukraine belonged to the Patriarchate of Constantinople and is not intrinsically Russian or dependent on…
Orthodox priests picking their way through the battlements in Ukraine is a symbol of how this church is caught in the middle of an unholy conflict. The majority of people on both…
Please note that we post this only for information about a significant statesman’s perspective on Eastern Christianity. Please see the item on line (below) to read various responses. From the report, setting to one side his…
27 March 2014 On March 22, 2014, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, who hosts the Church and World talk-show on Russia-24 TV channel, had as his guest the editor-in-chief of the Religion and…
The positioning of the Moscow Patriarchate speaks for itself, except to say that it is calculated to provoke the Ukrainian Catholic Church, in directing its “grievance” to Rome, by treating it as a mere…
by Vladimir Rozanskij, Asia News, 21 march 2014 Kirill not present for Putin’s great speech to the Duma. While Russia follows in the footsteps of the empire of Ivan the Terrible, the…
The Kyivan Patriarchal Church of Ukraine is not currently recognised by other Orthodox Churches as canonical at the insistence of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate from which it seceded…
The Moscow Times, Mar. 20 2014 Priests from the Moscow-based Orthodox Church have threatened to seize property belonging to a rival denomination in Crimea Priests from the Moscow-based Orthodox Church accompanied by…
19 March 2014, 12:34 Minister of Culture of Ukraine Yevhen Nyshchuk called on Crimeans to maintain interreligious peace and tolerance. “The Maidan showed how various denominations can coexist peacefully. The whole world…