Vatican has no mediator role between Ukraine and Russia, says Ukrainian Catholic leader
Archbishop Sviatoslav said that in response to a question about Pope Francis's controversial statements on the Russo-Ukrainian war.
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Russia destroying churches, persecuting clergy in occupied Ukraine, church leader warns
Russia's full-scale Ukraine invasion extinguishing religious freedom through church destruction, clergy arrests/killings, prompting church leader's appeal for unblocked US aid.
Historical decision: Ukrainian Greek Catholics to mark Christmas on 25 December in symbolic break with Russia
A reform of the Church calendar in Ukraine was announced by Sviatoslav Shevchuk, leader of Ukraine’s second-largest church,…
Ancient Ukrainian church brotherhoods as forerunner of nation’s civil society today, Horyevoy says
Many are investigating why civil societies have emerged in some countries but not in others; but their research,…
“Here I see God”: Omelian Kovch, the Ukrainian priest who saved hundreds of Jews & died in Majdanek concentration camp
On January 9, 1999, the Jewish Council of Ukraine proclaimed Omelian Kovch a “Righteous of Ukraine”. Until his…
The Man and the Nation nobody expected: Andrei Sheptytskyi and Ukraine
History knows providential people. History remembers people, who correspond with their very nature to what a nation and…
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…
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…
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…
“You are strong when you wish well.” 12 quotes from Ukraine’s moral compass Lyubomyr Husar everyone should read
On 31 May 2017, Ukraine lost its moral compass. Lyubomyr Husar, the ex-leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic…
Inside Ukraine’s appeal for Church autocephaly
On the eve of the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Churches, Ukraine’s Parliament approved and issued…
Moscow worried about emergence of a new Ukrainian national church
Since 1991, the Kremlin and the Moscow Patriarchate have been worried about the emergence of a Ukrainian Orthodox…
Ukrainian bishops issue urgent appeal to the politicians and people of Ukraine
Address of the Synod of Bishops of the Kyiv-Galician Major Archbishopric of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church to…
Rally in occupied Donetsk against “CIA-linked sect”
A rally was held in occupied Donetsk to protest against the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church of the Intercession…
Russia will not succeed in inciting inter-religious conflict in Ukraine, believes head of Greek Catholic Church
Head of the UGCC Stvyatoslav Shevchuk thinks that there is understanding between the churches and religious organizations which…
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Primate fears his church may be liquidated in Crimea
The Ukrainian Greek Catholics in Crimea may be left without a church, Major Archbiship Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the head…
