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 …
The text about the UOC’ ban as a possible impetus for church reconciliation in Ukraine was published in six languages
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 …
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 …