A virtual tour of the Ukrainian Christian Tradition’s Mother Church in Kyiv. St. Sophia Cathedral was built in 1037AD and is loved by Catholics and Orthodox alike. Its iconography and structure have for the most…
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By Jonathan Luxmoore CNS on Thursday, 29 May 2014 A Catholic bishop in eastern Ukraine said church members are afraid to attend Mass in Donetsk and other towns after a priest from…
Moscow, May 28, Interfax – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has sharply criticized the Ukrainian Greek-Catholics Church. Once again, there is an enduring need to set the context for such remarks…
26 May 2014 On May 25 a group of armed members of the terrorist organization “People’s Republic of Luhansk” burst into two polling stations, threatening to injure the members of election commission,…
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…
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…
This is a most important interview to read, in conjunction with that on Al-Jazeera with Metropolitan Hilarion (in the next post on). Patriarch Sviatoslav emphasises that the relations between Ukrainian Catholics and…
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…
05/15/2014 10:24, by Nina Achmatova Moscow (AsiaNews ) – The refusal of entry to the Moscow Patriarchate’s “foreign minister”, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, has raised yet another diplomatic row between Kiev and…
May 14, 2014 – George Weigel, First Things When we first met in April 2011, what initially impressed me about Sviatoslav Shevchuk was his almost preternatural calm: which was striking, in that,…