Orthodox Church of Ukraine won’t be a state church, Poroshenko says
On the day of the enthronement of the metropolitan of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), President Petro…
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Majority of Orthodox believers in Ukraine identify with Ukrainian church, new poll shows
A new poll conducted by the SOCIS Center, the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology and the Razumkov Centre…
Ukrainian Orthodox Church and Orthodox Church of Ukraine are now legal synonyms
Yesterday, the Ukrainian justice ministry officially registered the religious organization, “the Kyiv Metropolitanate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church…
FSB, SVR divide control of Moscow Patriarchate church at home and abroad, Ukrainian intelligence official says
The Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (ROC MP) at the present time is “99 percent controlled”…
Ukrainian autocephaly a defeat for Putin but a victory for a future Free Russia, Illarionov says
Many commentators have suggested that the grant of autocephaly to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine is a great…
Now-independent Ukrainian Orthodox church set to be major player internationally, Illarionov says
Russian commentator Andrey Illarionov has carefully compared the status of Ukrainian Orthodoxy in terms of 25 basic issues…
Ukrainian Orthodox Church head says Russian Orthodox Church will remain in Ukraine as many want it and he’s not against that
To hear Moscow propagandists talk, you would think that the new Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) in combination…
Are the Uniates about to make common cause with newly autocephalous Ukrainian Orthodox?
With the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) receiving the tomos of autocephaly from the Universal Patriarch Bartholomew, the…
Ukrainian autocephaly destroys ideological foundation of Russian empire, Espresso says
Many are saying Ukraine’s receipt of autocephaly from the Universal Patriarch is for Russia an act equivalent to…
‘A church without Putin, without Kirill, and without prayers for the aggressor’
The unification council of the Ukrainian Orthodox has ended with the election of a new metropolitan and promises…
Moscow organizing provocations in Ukraine to disrupt Church Unification Council, SBU says
The Russian special services and the "DNR" officials they control are organizing church marches in Kyiv, Odesa, Kharkiv,…
Draft tomos gives Ukrainian Church less autonomy than it hopes to obtain
Ukrainian media have obtained a copy of a draft tomos that the Universal Patriarchate has prepared for delivery…
For Putin, Ukrainian autocephaly is as bad for Russia as USSR’s disintegration and something he won’t tolerate, Illarionov says
Vladimir Putin views autocephaly for the Ukrainian Orthodox as having an equally fateful and negative impact on Russia…
Moscow Patriarchate’s Church in Ukraine will survive autocephaly, but as marginal force, Yurash says
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC MP) will remain in existence after Ukraine forms its…
Moscow laying groundwork for alternative patriarchate in Muslim Turkey
The Moscow Patriarchate is taking its battle against the Universal Patriarchate over Ukrainian autocephaly to a new level:…
More fallout from Ukrainian autocephaly: Russians learn Moscow Orthodox hierarchs were KGB officers
Specialists on religion in the Soviet Union have known for decades that many of the most senior hierarchs…
Constantinople: Moscow could be stripped of autocephaly, while Belarus could gain it
If Moscow continues to interfere with the march of Ukraine’s Orthodox to autocephaly, it could lose not only…
Chekist Operation Trust — model for Putin’s approach to Russian Church and Russian nationalism, Khazanov-Pashkovsky says
The Trust, as a Chekist operation directed at and designed to disorder the anti-Bolshevik White emigration at the…
Fight over subordination of Orthodox hierarchies spreads to Moldova
Despite the fact that Ukraine’s Orthodox church is about to be granted autocephaly and ever more people in…
Does Estonia’s history with two Orthodox churches have lessons for Ukraine?
Constantinople’s gift of autocephaly to Ukraine’s Orthodox church could have a very different outcome than the violent clashes…