Together with informational and academic activities, the charitable foundation “Academic Initiative” continues its activities in the field of humanitarian aid. In the center of our attention are victims of the consequences of the Russian-Ukrainian war: forced migrants, people from the Read More …
Conference: “Strategies of reconciliation. The role of the Churches in Ukraine”
Sergii Bortnyk spoke at the General Assembly of the World Council of Churches
From August 31. to September 8., the regular 11th assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) was held in Karlsruhe, Germany. At the invitation of the organizers, Sergii Bortnyk took part in it and spoke at the plenary session. Read More …
Sergii Bortnyk took part at the seminar in the University of Oslo
On August 19.-20. 2022 the “Oslo Coalition on Freedom of Religion and Belief” organized an international seminar “Orthodoxy and Democracy”. It was supported by the University of Oslo and Norwegian Centre for Human Rights. On the invitation of the organizers Read More …
Sergii Bortnyk gave a presentation at the Virtual assembly of the Conference of European Churches
On June 30, 2022, the Assembly of the Conference of European Churches took place, this time online. At the invitation of the organizers, Sergii Bortnyk took part in the event as a representative of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. He spoke Read More …
Four months of the war: information activities of our Foundation
On February 24, 2022, the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against the Ukrainian state began. Among the arguments of the Russian leadership regarding the beginning of the war was protection of the faithful of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (in Read More …
Activities of our Foundation since the beginning of the war: humanitarian aid
On February 24, 2022, the war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine began. It has significantly changed the activities of our Foundation, namely added a component of assistance to war victims. With the help of our partners – Church organizations Read More …
A new mega IOTA conference will be held in Greece
IOTA is the English abbreviation for “International Orthodox Theological Association”. It plans to hold a second mega conference from January 10. to 15., 2023, this time in the city of Volos in Greece.Today, IOTA has 27 thematic groups, each of Read More …
Overestimated declared identity of the OCU faithful and unexpected tolerance of the UOC faithful: analysis of the Razumkov Center’s data
Some days ago a printed version of the brochure “Peculiarities of religious and Church-religious self-determination of the citizens of Ukraine: trends of 2000-2021” was presented. The electronic version of the brochure is in open access on the Center’s website — Read More …
The Austrian “Pro Oriente” Foundation has extended its consultant status for Sergii Bortnyk
At the end of 2021, in accordance with the decision of the Board of trustees of the Foundation “Pro Oriente” Sergii Bortnyk extended his mandate of the consultant of this Foundation for the next four years. The decision was approved Read More …
Ecumenical perspectives of the “Orthodox Church of Ukraine”
On the web-site of the “Orthodox Christian Studies Center” of the Fordham University which titles “Public Orthodoxy” there was published a text of Director of the Institute of ecumenical studies of the UCU Pavlo Smytsnyuk “The Orthodox Church of Ukraine: Read More …