The Secretariat of the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations is drafting a memorandum on the interaction with the Conference of European Churches. The representatives of Ukrainian denominations discussed this issue during a meeting on October 18, under the chairmanship of Sheikh Ahmed Tamim, Chairman of the Religious Administration of Muslims of Ukraine, the Institute of Religious Freedom report. Earlier the AUCCRO already appealed to foreign inter-church associations to...
The Ministry of Justice will distribute its clarifications among the territorial justice administrations regarding the peculiarities of state registration of religious organizations. This was agreed by the participants of the Working Group, the regular meeting of which was held at the Ministry on October 6 with the participation of representatives of the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations, reports the Institute of Religious Freedom. The explanation, which will be...
As part of the plenary session of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, held in these days in the Vatican, Patriarch Sviatoslav delivered a presentation on the ecumenical mission of the Eastern Catholic Churches. “The experience of the last two centuries clearly shows that in restoring the unity or communion of the Churches, Christians have fallen into two categories: those who seek unity and those who oppose it,” the Head of the UGCC stressed, summarizing up his appeal to the...
The leadership of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the USA (Patriarchate of Constantinople) Metropolitan Anthony (Scherba) and Archbishop Daniel proclaimed the year of 2018 to be the 100th anniversary of the UOC-USA, Religion in Ukraine reports. During the celebration of the anniversary, all the hierarchs, clergy, monastics and faithful will be honored “who lived before us and sacrificed themselves to build the Kingdom of God on this land much more than most of us do 100 years later,” according...
Im Zentrum der ukrainischen Hauptstadt Kiew haben Aktivisten einen Marsch mit dem Titel „Gemeinsam für Frieden, gegen Gewalt“ organisiert, mit dem sie ein Zeichen gegen häusliche Gewalt setzen wollten. Sie begannen die Demonstration in der Nähe des Ministerkabinetts und forderten von der Regierung, ein Netzwerk spezialisierter Institutionen für die Opfer häuslicher Gewalt auf lokaler Ebene einzurichten. Später verlangten die Protestierenden vor dem Parlamentsgebäude die Ratifizierung der...
Obwohl die Ukraine mehrheitlich orthodox ist, wird auch dort das Reformationsjubiläum gefeiert. So organisierte die Universität von Odessa Ende September eine Konferenz zum Thema „Reformation und die moderne Welt (Philosophie, Theologie, Wissenschaft)“. Die Teilnehmer diskutierten dabei über interkonfessionellen Dialog, Toleranz, Ökumene, das Verhältnis von Wissenschaft und Religion, den Einfluss der Reformation auf die moderne Gesellschaft und die Teilnahme religiöser Organisationen am...
On Wednesday, September 20, a roundtable discussion was held dedicated to "Peculiarities of the legal status of religious organizations in the legal framework of Ukraine: non-profit statu"”. The event was organized by the Department of Foreign Relations of the Patriarchal Curia of the UGCC in Ukraine. Opening the meeting, the head of the Department, Olexa Petriv, noted that the purpose of the round table was to discuss changes to the Tax Code of Ukraine, which compel religious organizations to...
