At the end of September 2024 in Paderborn, Germany took place a meeting of the St. Irenaeus Joint Orthodox-Catholic Working Group. The theme of this year’s meeting was “Schisms as an intra-church phenomenon: on the way to a typology”. It Read More …
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The document “Bishop of Rome” and its discussion
In July 2024, in Rome there was a presentation of a new, landmark document for the Roman Catholic Church with the title “Bishop of Rome”. Later various discussions of the document took place in different places. In particular, on October Read More …
Sergii Bortnyk took part at the conference in Estonia
On November 6-7, 2024, the international conference “The Orthodox Church in Estonia – independence: opportunities for development, risks, consequences” was held in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. On the invitation of the organizers of the conference, Sergii Bortnyk, the head Read More …
Sergii Bortnyk took part in a webinar on the law banning religious organizations in Ukraine
On October 29, 2024, a webinar “Ukraine’s Banning Russian Orthodox Church and Affiliated Organizations: Legal and Juridical Aspects” was held. On the invitation of the organizers, the head of the “Academic Initiative” Foundation Sergii Bortnyk spoke at the panel “Bottom-up Read More …
More than 200,000 euros to help the needy: the humanitarian component of our foundation’s activity
After the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine in February 2022, the “Academic Initiative” charitable foundation expanded its activities. Since then, humanitarian assistance to the needy has become an essential component of Read More …
The search for ways to autocephaly and criticism of the “Russian world” ideology became the central topics at the conference of the Kyiv Theological Academy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
On October 17, the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Spiritual and Secular Education: History of Relations – Modernity – Perspectives” was held at the Kyiv Theological Academy. It has been held for the sixteenth year in a row, and the Read More …
Young theologians from the UOC took part in a summer ecumenical course from the Austrian foundation “Pro Oriente”
From September 2 to 5, 2024, an English-language summer course for young scholars in the field of theology and related disciplines was held in Vienna. Several people from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church participated in it, in particular Bohdan Mostovyi, a Read More …
Refusal to use “Filioque” – a proposal within the framework of the Orthodox-Lutheran dialogue
In early May 2024, the 18th plenary session of the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Lutheran World Federation and the Orthodox Church was held in Cairo, Egypt. The main result of this session was “Common statement on Read More …
The “Academic Initiative” Foundation took an active part in mutual visits of professors of theology from Leipzig and Kyiv
On September 15-17, Professor Frank M. Luetze, head of the chair of Religious Pedagogy and Didactics of Religion’s Teaching at the Theological University of Leipzig, Germany, was in Kyiv on an academic visit. On Monday, September 16, he gave a Read More …
The school “Child’s Dignity as an Unconditional Value” was held in Lviv
On September 11-12, 2024, the school “Child’s dignity as an unconditional value” was held in Lviv. It was organized by the Child Dignity Center operating at the Ukrainian Catholic University and gathered over 60 participants representing various Christian denominations of Read More …