Expert: Authorities must give top-down order to stop persecution of UOC
Elena Dyachenko believes that by revising the laws against the UOC adopted under Poroshenko, the authorities will give the top-down order to end the persecution. The top-down…
UOC spokesman: Believers are ready to take to streets to defend the Church
The UOC is holding back parishioners from mass street protests, but people are determined to take a decisive action to protect their Church, Father Nikolai said. Archpriest…
Party leader: Servants of the People will not support Poroshenko’s bill
“Servants” in the Rada are preparing an alternative bill on “collaborators”, which does not mention religious organizations, said the party leader Kornienko. MPs of the Verkhovna Rada…
Vatican: Mother of God unites Christianity and Islam
The Mother of God corresponds to “genetic codes of Judaism, Christianity and Islam,” therefore She can become a bridge between multicultural worlds, said the RCC priest. On February…
Filaret: Tomos prohibits transfer of UOC-KP communities in U.S. to Dumenko
Filaret Denisenko on the conference of the UOC-KP vicariate in the United States, which declared its subordination to the OCU: Tomos prohibits parishes outside Ukraine. The head of…
Russian Church recalls stance of new Serbian Patriarch on Ukrainian issue
The Deputy Head of the MP DECR said that the Primate of the Serbian Church had previously expressed support for the UOC and declared his rejection of…
UOC hierarch: Phanar wants to speak in EU on behalf of World Orthodoxy
Phanar is trying to position itself in the EU as a leader of all Orthodox Christians worldwide, which causes disagreement on the part of other Local Churches. Bishop…
Expert: Poroshenko’s bill will turn millions of UOC faithful against power
The authorities are unlikely to accept Poroshenko-initiated bill without provoking mass protests from believers and clergy of the UOC, believes Konstantin Bondarenko. It is unlikely that the majority representing…