Three signs Moscow Patriarch Kirill knows he’s lost on Ukrainian autocephaly
The Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC MP) continues to assert that it will be able…
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Ecumenical Patriarch to grant Ukrainian Orthodox autocephaly, Greek Church source says
The Ecumenical Patriarch of the Orthodox Church, Bartholomew I of Constantinople, has decided to grant autocephaly to the…
Implicitly conceding Ukrainian autocephaly, Moscow makes plans to split Orthodoxy and dominate one part of it, analysts say
Now that it has become clear that autocephaly for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is only a question of…
Ukrainian autocephaly just as inevitable as restoration of USSR is impossible
Some were disappointed that the Constantinople Patriarchate did not make the Ukrainian church autocephalous at its meeting on…
Moscow Patriarchate takes lead in prisoner exchange to its benefit in Ukraine
The Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church, virtually “the last acceptable mediator between Moscow and Kyiv,” played…
Moscow Patriarchate’s moves strengthen Russia’s hand in Ukraine, Kryuchkov says
The decision of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC MP) to allow the Ukrainian Orthodox…
Moscow Patriarchate hasn’t ‘freed’ Ukrainian Orthodox Church but rather imposed new limits
The amendments to the rules governing the Russian Orthodox Church have been presented as giving the Ukrainian Orthodox…
The Black Hundreds of 1917 have returned to Russia
In a classical example of Russian suggestions that “everything new is the well-forgotten old,” Nakanune commentator Elena Kiryakova…
Ukrainian church’s gains could be reversed if Kyiv bans Moscow Patriarchal Church in Ukraine, Greek Catholic priest says
Ukrainian churches have been gaining in recent years as ever more people have chosen to leave the parishes…
In fighting Russia, Ukraine must not become like it, Ukrainian churchman says
One of the gravest dangers -- and potentially most serious defeats --any country combating an authoritarian aggressor is…
“Moscow’s appropriation of Ukrainian history not limited to Queen Anna Yaroslavna” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Moscow Patriarchate still has more parishes in Ukraine than its Kyiv counterpart but fewer followers
The Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church routinely says that it has more parishes in Ukraine than…
Ukrainian legislation about religion will finalize divorce between Kyiv and Moscow
Two pieces of draft legislation about religious organizations in Ukraine scheduled to be taken up by the Verkhovna…
Moscow Patriarchate taking control over property of its parishes in Ukraine to block them from leaving
Faced with a rising tide of parishes in Ukraine whose members have voted to transfer their allegiance to…
“Syrian strikes transform Trump from ‘ours’ to ‘another Hillary’”and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Three religious developments in Eurasia with more than religious implications
A Ukrainian bill that would make it easier for congregations to shift from the Moscow patriarchate to the…
Russian court orders demolition of Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kyiv Patriarchate) in Moscow Oblast
The Moscow Regional Court has ruled that the Holy Trinity Church of the Bohorodsk Eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox…
Scholar: Russian Orthodox Church Moscow Patriarchate supports repressions, militarism
It would be comforting to believe that Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin was speaking only for himself when he suggested…
Chaplin, ‘a Zhirinovsky from the Orthodox Church,’ says mass repressions necessary and reasonable
Mass repressions don’t just start; the groundwork has to be laid in advance. And that task is being…
War and the Moscow Patriarchate: three processions to Kyiv
The other day I remembered school history lessons from the Soviet era when we studied the 1905 revolution.…