Constantinople decision on Ukrainian Church truly has global consequences
Although the Universal Patriarch in Constantinople has not yet given the tomos of autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox…
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The next domino – Belarusian Orthodox hope for autocephaly
Archbishop Sviatoslau Lohin, head of the émigré Belarusian Autocephalous Church, says that his denomination supports autocephaly for Ukrainian…
Moscow having failed to block Ukrainian autocephaly now attempting to exploit it
The Kremlin and the Moscow Patriarchate remain totally opposed to autocephaly for the Ukrainian church, but in recognition…
Constantinople could grant autocephaly to Belarusian Orthodox Church next, Gorbik says
Ukrainian Archpriest Sergey Gorbik says that Constantinople could grant autocephaly to the Belarusian Orthodox Church in the near…
Constantinople moves to grant autocephaly to Ukrainian Church, outraging Moscow
Yesterday, the Ecumenical Patriarchate announced that it has appointed as its exarchs in Kyiv an archbishop from the…
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…
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…
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…
8 reasons why Russian Communism and Russian Orthodoxy are so interchangeable
Many people are surprised and others are alarmed that Russian Orthodoxy and Communism are so “easily interchangeable,” but…
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…
Russia, other former Soviet republics persecuting Christians, new Notre Dame report says
Vladimir Putin has proudly claimed and all too many in the West accept at face value that he…
Moscow archpriest calls for new death squads to destroy ‘traitor-emigres’
Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, former head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for relations between church and society, has called…
“Kremlin views Trump as ‘stupid, un-strategic, and manipulable,'” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Religious affairs in Russia now under control of security services, Lunkin says
Roman Lunkin, president of the Russian Experts Guild on Religion and Law, says that “religious policy in Russia…