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Zelenskyy hints at the upcoming decision to limit Moscow’s influence in Ukraine through Kremlin-controlled church

The decision should balance security issues and freedom of religion, while several oppositional MPs in Ukraine demand the adoption of the law banning the Moscow church in Ukraine.

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Moscow-backed Ukrainian Orthodox Church hires US lobbyist for $1400 per Hour

UOC-MP is paying a hefty price to promote the idea of ongoing "religious persecution" in Ukraine

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Ukrainian politics

Ukraine makes first step to ban Russian-backed church

Ukraine moved closer to cracking down on a Ukrainian Orthodox Church aligned with Russia, with parliament approving a law to ban the religious body.

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Ukraine Moscow Patriarchate’s dioceses are forcefully integrated into Russian Orthodox Church – ISW

Zaporizhzhia Oblast occupation official Vladimir Rogov claimed that the Russian Bishop of Bronnitsky, Luka, held the first liturgy…

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Analysis

Anatomy of treason: how the Ukrainian Orthodox Church sold its soul to the “Russian world”

Church matters are heating up in Ukraine. After years of getting priority treatment from the government, the Ukrainian…

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Moscow-backed Ukrainian Orthodox Church leader, 20 other hierarchs are Russian citizens, media claims; church denies

The head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC MP), Metropolitan Onufriy (Orest Berezovsky), and…

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Russian Aggression

More parishes leave Moscow-backed Ukrainian Orthodox Church amid growing pressure, anger, and chaos

While the standoff around the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, a major UOC MP monastery in the Ukrainian capital that defies…

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Analysis

Passions in the Lavra: why the Ukrainian state broke its patience with the Moscow-aligned Orthodox Church

“Let me tell you, Mr. President, and all of your entourage, that our tears will not fall to…

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Ukraine

SBU charges Moscow-linked Kyiv monastery abbot with inciting religious hatred and denying Russian aggression

Dubbed by Ukrainian media as “Pasha Mercedes” for his fondness for luxury cars and regular violations of traffic…

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Ukraine

Moscow-backed Ukrainian Orthodox Church still linked to Russia despite claims – expert committee

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the Moscow Patriarchy (UOC MP) that in May 2022 claimed to sever ties…

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Hierarch of Moscow-linked Ukrainian Orthodox Church to be tried for encouraging Russian invasion

Ukraine’s Security Service has announced that it gathered indisputable evidence of the guilt of Ionafan, a hierarch of the…

SBU raids a monastery of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church

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Ukraine

Ukraine edges closer to banning Moscow-backed Orthodox Church

Ukraine has moved closer to banning the Moscow-backed Ukrainian Orthodox Church after a series of Security Service raids…

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2024

SBU raids Moscow Patriarchate-controlled Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery complex in Ukrainian capital (updated)

On the morning of 22 November 2022, the Security Service of Ukraine reported on Telegram that it was…

Moscow Patriarch Kirill speaking on October 18, 2019. Photo: novayagazeta.ru

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Greek acceptance of Ukrainian autocephaly – bigger defeat for Moscow than Constantinople grant, Soldatov says

The harsh even hysterical reaction of the Moscow Patriarchate to the decision of the Greek Orthodox Church to…

byPaul A. Goble

The tomos of autocephaly of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine on display at St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv. January 7, 2019. The cathedral was founded in 1011, under the reign King Volodymyr the Great, who ruled Kyivan Rus from 980 to 1015. (Photo: pomisna.info)

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Half of Ukrainians identify with Orthodox Church of Ukraine; only one in seven with Moscow’s exarchate

A new poll shows that 48.8 percent of Ukrainians identify with the Orthodox Church of Ukraine while only…

byPaul A. Goble

Vladimir Putin and Moscow Patriarch Kirill presiding over a meeting with the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate on July 27, 2013 in Kyiv, Ukraine, less than a year before the Russian annexation of Crimea and the occupation of the Donbas. The head of this Moscow exarchate in Ukraine, Metropolitan Onufriy, is seated in the middle of the front row. (Photo: kremlin.ru)

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Implementation of Ukrainian autocephaly may be first flashpoint in Zelenskyi era

Petro Poroshenko made autocephaly for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church a centerpiece of national strategy, used the power of…

byPaul A. Goble

A view of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra also known as the Kyiv Monastery of the Caves in Kyiv, Ukraine, photographed circa 1890-1900. It was founded as a cave monastery in 1051. (Photo: Detroit Publishing Company via the Library of Congress)

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Orthodox parishes in Ukraine shifting from Moscow to Kyiv at ever-increasing rate

In the first 76 days since the autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine came into existence (December 15 to…

byPaul A. Goble

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Ukraine

New independent church and Moscow Patriarchate vie for parishes in Ukraine

On 15 December 2018, bishops from the three disunited Orthodox Churches in Ukraine convened to elect the Primate…

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Ukraine

Old wine in new bottles: how bad habits derailed Ukrainian Church unification – interview with Cyril Hovorun

The Unification Council just took place. What is your appraisal of this event? Generally speaking, it is certainly…

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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‘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…

byPaul A. Goble