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…
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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…
A Ukrainian National Church — Ukraine’s hopes and Moscow’s traps
The letter that Patriarch Filaret, the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP), sent…
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 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…
“How to pray for Putin” 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…
Why does Moscow need religious processions in Ukraine?
Two processions organized by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate called the "All-Ukrainian Procession of the…
Orthodox procession in Ukraine ‘not a road to Kyiv but to Constantinople,’ Portnikov says
Many Ukrainians and their supporters have misunderstood the Orthodox procession organized by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Vitaly Portnikov…
Authorities ready to demolish only Ukrainian church in Russia
The City Court of Noginsk (Moscow region) has ruled to demolish the Orthodox Holy Trinity Church that is…
Orthodox world heading toward a new schism
The decisions of the Bulgarian, Serbian and Antioch Orthodox churches not to attend the Holy and Great Council…
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…