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…
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19 March 2014, 11:52 Crimean Catholics following the referendum, in which the people expressed their desire to secede from Ukraine and join the Russian Federation, will feel fear and anxiety. Following the…
19.03.2014 In a conversation about Russian Orthodoxy some dozen years ago, that famous source who can only be quoted off-the-record, the Senior Vatican Official, said to me, “They only know how to…
We have just received this message: “Archbishop Klyment reports that Kyiv Patriarchate parishes have been visited by representatives of the Moscow Patriarchate and told that Moscow will take over their buildings as…
Kyiv, Ukraine, Mar 18, 2014 / 04:10 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- As the Russian president signed a bill to annex Crimea Tuesday, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the peninsula has been experiencing…
Like countless others both in Ukraine and around the world, I have been transfixed by events as they have unfolded over these last weeks and months. The world’s cameras and spotlights have…
17 March 2014, 13:52 On March 17 in Luhansk, the Ukrainian Orthodox Churches of the Moscow Patriarchate and the Kyivan Patriarchate were called to dialogue. With a proposal to create a committee…
Meeting Follows Yesterday’s Referendum in Crimea Vatican City, March 17, 2014 (Zenit.org) Pope Francis today received in private audience His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, major archbishop of Kyiv-Halyc in Ukraine. The meeting followed…
14/03/2014 10:48 pm All eyes are on Ukraine this weekend as voters in Crimea take part in a referendum to decide whether the region should stay part of Ukraine or join…
Pope Francis welcomed the major archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, Patriarch Sviatoslav Shevchuk, on Monday morning. The Patriarch thanked the Pope for his support and solidarity during the mass demonstrations these…