Tag: Ukraine

Patriarch Kirill’s appeal for the OSCE observers held in Ukraine

OCP- June 29, 2014

June 2014 The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church has made the following appeal to help release the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s ... Read More

Patriarch Kirill on the beginning of negotiations to settle the crisis in Ukraine

OCP- June 29, 2014

June 2014 On June 24, the press service of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia published the following statement His Holiness made ... Read More

Metropolitan Hilarion:“The voice of many millions of Orthodox believers should be heard and taken into account”

OCP- June 28, 2014

Address by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk to the 1st Inter-parliamentary Assembly of Orthodoxy. On June 26, the opening of the 21st Inter-parliamentary Assembly of Orthodoxy ... Read More

The Russian Orthodox Church Slams Greek-Catholics for anti-Russian outbursts and proselytism

OCP- June 27, 2014

27/6/14 It is no secret that the main moving force of the Kiev events were residents of the Western Ukraine where the major part of ... Read More

Icons start myrrh-streaming in Ukraine

OCP- June 27, 2014

June 2014 Several icons in Ukraine have begun giving myrrh since last months of the last year.   Moscow, June 26, Interfax – Several icons ... Read More

Ukrainian Orthodox Church asks Poroshenko to stop war in southeastern Ukraine

OCP- June 23, 2014

Moscow, June 20, Interfax - The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate has called on Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko to stop the military actions ... Read More

Regular session of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s Synod takes place in Kiev

OCP- June 21, 2014

June 2014 On 19 June 2014, a session of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church took place in the Synodal Hall of the ... Read More

Metropolitan Hilarion Slams UNIATES for causing damage in Ukraine and to the Orthodox-Roman Catholic dialogue

OCP- June 5, 2014

6/5/14 Metropolitan Hilarion: Actions of the Uniates have caused great damage not only to the Ukraine and her citizens, but also to the Orthodox-Catholic dialogue ... Read More

The Donetsk and Gorlovskij Diocese Announces a Strict Fast

OCP- June 3, 2014

June 2014 The faithful are called to intensify their prayers for peace and the cessation of military confrontation. According to an ancient Church tradition, the Donbass ... Read More

Patriarch Kirill wishes Poroshenko reconciliation of Ukrainian people

OCP- June 3, 2014

May - June 2014 Moscow, May 27, Interfax - Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Russia said he congratulated Petr Poroshenko with being elected Ukrainian ... Read More

Russian Orthodox Church has conciliatory stance on Ukraine – Legoyda

OCP- June 2, 2014

St. Petersburg, June 2, Interfax - The Russian Orthodox Church has a conciliatory stance regarding Ukraine, Moscow Patriarchate Information Department head Vladimir Legoyda said. “The ... Read More

Metropolitan Amfilohije: “The spirit of neofascism is sowing seeds of discord”

OCP- May 27, 2014

May 2014 Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro and the Littoral has stated that the revived spirit of neofascism is sowing seeds of discord, “trying to cause ... Read More

Moscow Patriarchate official: Church has no intention of intervening in conflict in Ukraine

OCP- May 22, 2014

May 2014 Moscow, May 21, Interfax - Vladimir Legoyda, the head of the Information Department of the Moscow Patriarchate, said said attempts are being made ... Read More

Statement by Moscow Patriarchate Synodal Information Department on Ukraine’s entry ban for Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk

OCP- May 20, 2014

May 2014 The Synodal Information Department of the Moscow Patriarchate has issued an official statement on Ukraine’s entry ban for Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman ... Read More

Crisis in Ukraine: Truth is the First Casualty

OCP- May 10, 2014

JIM FOREST - MAY 2014 Not only in Ukraine and Russia but in every Orthodox jurisdiction, national identity often influences our sense of self and ... Read More

Bishop seeks intl protection of Orthodox community in Ukraine

OCP- May 9, 2014

May 2014 A wave of attacks on priests of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church and attempts to occupy Orthodox churches has rolled through Ukraine. Moscow, ... Read More

Metropolitan Onufry: No political idea is worth of bloodshed

OCP- May 9, 2014

May 2014 Locum Tenens of the Metropolitan See of Kiev, Metropolitan Onufry of Chernovtsy and Bukovina, has issued the following message on the recent tragic ... Read More

Metropolitan Onuphrius: Let us pray and not quarrel

OCP- May 6, 2014

May 2014 I ask the people of Ukraine, regardless of their ethnicity and religion, to be wise and not to succumb to provocations. The locum ... Read More

Patriarch Kirill blames radical politicians for deaths in Odessa

OCP- May 4, 2014

May 2014 The Russian Orthodox Church is in deep grief over the new bloodshed in Ukraine as political radicals are trying to assert their convictions ... Read More

The Tortuous Path of Western Religion in the Global World

OCP- April 29, 2014

Orthodox England - 29/4/14 This April’s canonization of two twentieth-century Popes of Rome has only served to underline the gulf between the Church and Roman ... Read More

Russian Patriarch Kirill prays for Ukraine together with hundreds of parishioners

OCP- April 20, 2014

20/4/14 On the eve of Easter, Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill prayed for  Ukraine together with hundreds of parishioners of the Cathedral of ... Read More