On August 20, 2024, the Parliament of Ukraine adopted the law “On the Protection of the Constitutional Order in the Field of Activities of Religious Organizations”, which is unofficially called “The Law on the Prohibition of the UOC”. Already on Read More …
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Texts on the church reconciliation in Ukraine are posted online
Several years after the volume “Strategies of Reconciliation. The Role of Churches in Ukraine” (2021) was published the topic of Church reconciliation still remains actual. Therefore, we place on our website seven articles written by Sergii Bortnyk, mostly translated into Read More …
Position of Renovabis: “To guarantee religious freedom and to punish specific misconduct”
On July 23, in the Parliament of Ukraine, one could observe a vivid campaign of self-promotion by opposition MPs who demanded to ban the “Moscow Church”. In the photos distributed by many news agencies, it can be seen that the Read More …
“Difficult dialogue in wartime: an inside look at the church life in Ukraine”
This is the title of Volodymyr Bureha’s interview for the Bulgarian magazine “Christianity and Culture”. The text in its Ukrainian version was agreed with Professor Bureha for publication on our website. Here are excerpts from this interview translated into English. Read More …
A new meeting of the Orthodox-Catholic dialogue on the highest level was held in Bari
On June 3-7, 2024, a meeting of the Coordinating Committee of the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church was held in Bari, Italy. Co-presidents of the Committee are Cardinal Kurt Koch, Read More …
Exhibition of the “Child Dignity Center” in Kyiv
On May 27, 2024, the presentation of the project “SAFEGUARDING. Child safety in the church environment” took place in the Kyiv art gallery “Lavra”. This project was created by the “Child Dignity Center”, which exists at the Ukrainian Catholic University. Read More …
UOC representative took part in peace conference in Bosnia and Herzegovina
From May 29 to June 1, 2024, Bohdan Mostovyi took part in a peace conference in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The event entitled “Bridging the Divide: Processes of healing wounded memory in former Yugoslavia” was held in the city of Trebinje Read More …
Ukrainian church policy – a view from Europe
For the last year and a half, namely from December 2022, one can observe a significant change in the church policy of Ukraine. First of all, it concerns the attitude of the Ukrainian state and the general public towards the Read More …
Representatives of the UOC took part in an ecumenical journey to Switzerland
From June 3. till 9., 2024, some elected fellows of the charitable church funds of Germany undertook a journey to the Ecumenical Institute in Bossey by the World Council of Churches. Among the participants there were two representatives of the Read More …
Sergii Bortnyk took part in meetings with the delegation of the Conference of European Churches
On April 9-10, 2024, a delegation of the Conference of European Churches visited Ukraine. The delegation was led by Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain, CEC President. In the delegation there were the recently elected Secretary General of the Read More …