20 February 2014, 15:30 | RISU The Holy Synod of the Kyiv Patriarchate today voted to suspend commemoration of the President and civil authorities of Ukraine during services in consequence of their use…
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While most Cardinals are in Rome for the Extraordinary Consistory on the Family, there are a few who are noticeably missing. As Ukraine deals with the country’s rising violence, Cardinals Marian Jaworski…
One of the two tent chapels in Independence Square, keeping the peace and hope alive (Courtesy of Aid to the Church in Need) Kiev, Ukraine, Feb 20, 2014 / 03:24 pm (CNA/EWTN…
“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…
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…
With acknowledgment to Risu, which remarks: To those who repeat that Ukraine is divided: This photo is taken inside the St Michael Monastery. The priest (probably Orthodox) and imam are from the Donetsk…
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…
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…
20 February 2014 Beloved children and friends in Ukraine and abroad, It is with heavy heart that we have been following the ongoing and, indeed, only escalating tragic circumstances in Ukraine over…