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...
Petro Poroshenko made autocephaly for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church a centerpiece of national strategy, used the power of the state to promote it by making it easier for parishes to shift from the Moscow church to the Ukrainian one, and...
Since the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) was formed and granted autocephaly by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople last year, both it and the Moscow Patriarchate’s exarchate in Ukraine agree that a number of churches have...
In the first 76 days since the autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine came into existence (December 15 to February 28), 417 parishes in Ukraine changed their allegiance from the Moscow church to that one, Bishop Grigory (Lurye) of the...
The so-called “Donetsk Peoples Republic” is preparing to liquidate all structures loyal to the autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine by expelling its priests and seizing their churches, exactly the kind of actions Donetsk...
In the month since Ukraine received autocephaly, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate has seen more than 300 of its parishes transfer their allegiance from Moscow to the Ukrainian autocephalous church, some 2.5 percent...
When the arsons began As early as at the night of 6 February 2019, unknown persons set fire to the temple of Oleksiy Karpatoruskyi, belonging to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the Moscow Patriarchate and located in Zaporizhzhia in...
Moves by the Russian occupation forces in Crimea to close down or transfer of all Ukrainian Orthodox Churches to the control of the Moscow Patriarchate have attracted considerable attention and even provoked suggestions that Kyiv should...
History weaponized Just as heavily armored “little green men” invaded and occupied Crimea, and Russian tanks entered eastern Ukraine to wage war against the Ukrainian Armed Forces, another silent front opened in the classrooms of...
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