At a meeting of a Moscow conference on “World Orthodoxy: Primacy and Collegiality in the Light of Orthodox Doctrine,” the Russian church leader extended his criticism of Bartholomew ever since the latter granted autocephaly to the...
Now, a poll of 5,000 Ukrainians by the Ukrainian Institute of the Future and the New Image Marketing Group provides a more accurate measure of the real size of the two churches in Ukraine. The survey found that 72 percent of Ukrainians...
Religious affairs specialist Milena Faustova says that “the closer the August 24 date of the visit of Bartholomew I of Constantinople, the Universal Patriarch, to Ukraine approaches, “the more often in the Russian Orthodox Church and...
Over the last 18 months, the number of Orthodox parishes in Ukraine which have voted to change their affiliation from the Russian Orthodox Church to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has slowed. Indeed, since January 2020, the Ukrainian church...
130,000 Ukrainians visited churches for Orthodox Easter this Sunday, on 19 April. This is much less than last year, when 7 million people participated in Easter celebrations, Ukrainian Police reported – 2% to be exact. But this could...
For as long as official cases of COVID-19 have remained manageable inside the Russian Federation, Moscow was able to exploit the global coronavirus pandemic to try to pursue various foreign policy goals (see EDM, April 13). This activism,...
Easter as a COVID-19 hazard Metropolitan Onufriy, the primate of the UOC MP, at publication time was reportedly hospitalized with COVID-19. But the UOC MP’s plans remain unchanged: those ill with COVID-19 may remain home and watch...
The harsh even hysterical reaction of the Moscow Patriarchate to the decision of the Greek Orthodox Church to recognize the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church reflects the fact that the Greek move may be a bigger defeat for the...
In the first three months after the Orthodox Church of Ukraine became autocephalous, approximately 300 parishes shifted their allegiance from the Moscow church to the Ukrainian one; now, in the last four months, another 230 have done so,...
A new poll shows that 48.8 percent of Ukrainians identify with the Orthodox Church of Ukraine while only 14.2 percent say they are followers of the Moscow Patriarchate Church in Ukraine. 16.3 percent say they’re Orthodox without...
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia Van Voren: Of course, you have a number of Lithuanians who managed quite cleverly to gather wealth and become the upper layer in society. But the extremes you see in Ukraine or Russia is something that didn’t...
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