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 …
Conference: “Strategies of reconciliation. The role of the Churches in Ukraine”
Зі сторони української держави хотілося б очікувати обмеження прагнення інструменталізувати Церкву в своїх інтересах
Сергій Бортник, БФ «Академічна ініціатива», Київ
Impossibility for the Kyivan Church Study Group to conduct its activities in Kyiv itself and in Ukraine in general, called into question relevance of its continued existence
Sergii Bortnyk, CF “Academic initiative”, Kyiv
В Німеччині модель співпраці між Церквою та державою базується на свободі віросповідання громадян, світоглядному нейтралітеті держави та рівноправності всіх релігійних спільнот
Дагмар Хеллер,
Бенсхайм, Німеччина
In the consciousness of our citizens the Church has a large potential but in its activity it should avoid close cooperation with the state in building ideology – both of nationalistic and imperial forms
Sergii Bortnyk, CF “Academic initiative”, Kyiv
У свідомості наших громадян Церква має значний потенціал, але у своїй діяльності вона повинна уникати тісної співпраці з державою в побудові ідеології – як в націоналістичній, так і в імперській формах
Сергій Бортник, БФ «Академічна ініціатива», Київ
Саме на основі ідеї соціального служіння та активної соціальної позиції Церкви України можуть знаходити шляхи взаємодії та компромісу
Михайло Міщенко, Центр Разумкова, Київ
Спільний лист єпископів України та Польщі звертається до нашої складної історії, а також наголошує на важливості християнства, що виростає з латинської традиції в Польщі та візантійської традиції в Україні
Зігфрід Ґлезер, Університет Ополє, Польща
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 …
Sergii Bortnyk took part at the webinar on synodality and unity in the global Church
On January 21., 2022 a webinar “Synodality in the Catholic Church and the endangered unity of the Orthodox Church” took place in Zoom platform with an opportunity to watch this in youtube. The webinar was organized by the “Center of Read More …
With assistance of the Foundation the Almanac of Latin Patristics was published
In early November, the book “Almanac of Latin Patristics” was published in Kyiv. It includes translations of Latin texts of holy fathers and Christian writers of the 4th and 5th centuries. The book presents selected exegetical and theological works of the authors of the golden age of patristics — the treatises Read More …
A conference on Orthodox-Catholic dialogue was held in Kyiv
On October 26., 2021, the international conference “Catholic-Orthodox documents and their reception in Ukraine” took place in the national reserve “Sophia of Kyiv”. The reason for its holding was publication of the collection “Catholic-Orthodox Dialogue. Documents”, published in September this year. At the conference there were a number Read More …
How can the Churches contribute to a prosperous social life?
Concluding part of the paper that Sergii Bortnyk hold at the congress of Renovabis in Berlin, 15.09.2021. See the links to the full version in German and Ukrainian below. … After these considerations on the subject, I would like to Read More …
Sergii Bortnyk took part at the Renovabis-congress in Germany
On September 15-16, 2021, the Catholic Academy of Berlin hosted the 25th anniversary congress of the Renovabis Foundation, which supports church initiatives in Central and Eastern Europe. This year’s theme of the congress was “All shall be one. Ecumenism in Read More …