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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.

byYuri Zoria

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Latest news Ukraine

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,…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

The charter issued by Jeremias II, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (c. 1536–1595), confirming the Lviv Dormition Brotherhood's right to run a press and a school. (Credit: EncyclopediaofUkraine.com)

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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,…

byPaul A. Goble

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“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…

byChristine Chraibi

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History of Ukraine

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…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

L-R: Metropolitan Epiphany and Archbishop Svyatoslav

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

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Opinion

“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…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

A monument to Volodymyr The Great, the king of Kyivan Rus from 980 to 1015 who baptized it in 988 and became a Christian saint, stands above the Dnieper River in Kyiv. (Photo: social media)

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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…

byWorld Media

Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church's Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ (Image: vifbs.in.ua)

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

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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…

byUkrainian media sources

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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…

byUkrainian media sources

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Ukrainian politics

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…

byRadio Liberty

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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…

byRadio Liberty