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Wonderworking Icon of the Mother of God of Bethlehem to Arrive to Kyiv | 15 March 2010, 13:56 | UOC (MP) |
Weekly Mirror Publishes Documents Regarding Liquidation of the UGCC in 1946 | 15 March 2010, 10:22 | UGCC |
Semynozhenko to Coordinate Church-State Relations | 15 March 2010, 09:45 | Church-state relations |
Crimean Tatars Indignant at New Minister of Internal Affairs | 12 March 2010, 14:16 | Protests and conflicts |
UGCC Head Will Remind President About Equality of Churches | 12 March 2010, 12:46 | Church-state relations |
State
15 March 2010, 09:45 | Church-state relations |
Semynozhenko to Coordinate Church-State Relations
On March 11, 2010, the Supreme Council of Ukraine appointed Volodymyr Semynozhenko as the Vice Prime Minister for Humanitarian Affairs.
12 March 2010, 14:16 | Protests and conflicts |
Crimean Tatars Indignant at New Minister of Internal Affairs
The Crimean Tatars Mejlis is preparing a statement to the Office of the Public Prosecutor General with a demand to initiate proceedings against the new Minister of Internal Affairs for anti-Tatar propaganda and humiliation of Islam.
12 March 2010, 12:46 | Church-state relations |
UGCC Head Will Remind President About Equality of Churches
In response to whether the influence of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate will grow under the new president, Patriarch Lubomyr said that he will remind the president about the equality of all the churches.
11 March 2010, 14:07 | UOC (MP)
On March 9, 2010, at the National Opera of Ukraine, with the participation of the president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, festivities dedicated to the 196th anniversary of the Great Kobzar were held.
11 March 2010, 13:42 | UGCC |
Patriarch Husar: There Should Be One State Language in Ukraine
During a press conference in Odesa on March 10, 2010, Patriarch Lubomyr (Husar), expressed his opinion on many questions regarding the political situation in the state and about introducing a second state language.
10 March 2010, 10:21 | Church-state relations |
Head of UGCC Meets Mayor of Odesa
On March 9, 2010, the head of the UGCC met with the mayor of Odesa, Eduard Hurvits. The parties discussed the participation of the UGCC in the spiritual development of the city and the allocation of land for the construction of a cathedral of the UGCC.
9 March 2010, 16:49 | State
Yanukovych Promised Medvedev to Take Away Rank of Hero of Ukraine from Bandera and Shukhevych
President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych promises that by Victory Day he will cancel decrees naming Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych Heroes of Ukraine.
9 March 2010, 15:47 | Religion and society |
Head of the UGCC Calls Faithful to Pray for the State throughout the Whole Year
Patriarch Lubomyr issued an address to the faithful of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) and to all people of good will with the appeal to pray for the state throughout the whole year.
9 March 2010, 10:50 | Religion and culture |
Metropolitan Volodymyr is going to donate a facsimile copy of the Peresopnytsia Gospels along with several rarities from his Shevchenko collection to the museum.
8 March 2010, 10:15 | Church-state relations |
Head of State Committee on Nationalities and Religions Awarded by Head of UOC-MP
On March 5, 2010, the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) held a meeting in his residence in the Kyiv Cave Monastery with the head of the State Committee on Nationalities and Religions, Yurii Reshetnikov.
6 March 2010, 13:06 | Legislation |
Ensuring Rights of Students of Spiritual Educational Institutions Proposed in Parliament
The Supreme Council of Ukraine has registered a bill on making alterations to the Law of Ukraine “On Freedom of Worship and Religious Organizations” as to the social support of students and teachers of spiritual institutions.
4 March 2010, 17:37 | Religion and society |
Gay Forum Addressed Ukraine President
Representatives of the gay movement ask Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych to ensure in Ukraine civil equality for sexual minorities.
4 March 2010, 14:52 | State
Rep of Tymoshenko’s Block Sees Ominous Sign in President’s Inauguration Blessing
A member of the Yulia Tymoshenko’s Motherland Faction, deputy Volodymyr Yavorivskyi, stresses that the first steps of Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych are aimed at “dismantling the Ukrainian state.”
4 March 2010, 14:49 | Church-state relations
Irregular Inauguration of Newly Elected President of Ukraine
The inauguration of the newly elected President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, was conducted irregularly as far as the participation of the church in inauguration events is concerned, reports the Institute of Religious Freedom.
4 March 2010, 10:59 | Faith and weapon |
Council on Pastoral Care of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Developed Joint Concept
The Council on Pastoral Care of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine made another considerable step toward establishing military chaplaincy in Ukraine.
3 March 2010, 09:10 | Church-state relations |
On February 25, 2010, a regular session of the Secretariat of the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations was held on the premises of Caritas-Spes.
2 March 2010, 12:41 | Temples, church property |
Reserve Reluctant to Pass Saint Sophia Cathedral to Church
Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv is one of the priority objects, which the Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate have asked President Yanukovych to return to the Church at its last synod.
26 February 2010, 23:17 | State
The web site of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate posted on February 26, 2010, Viktor Yanukovych’s address voiced at the service ahead of the inauguration.
26 February 2010, 18:11 | UOC (MP) |
UOC-MP Synod Addresses New President
On February 27, 2010, the web site of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate posted the address to Viktor Yanukovych, passed by its Synod on February 26.
26 February 2010, 10:12 | Temples, church property |
Ukrainian People’s Party Proposes Alternate Services in Pochayiv Monastery
The Ukrainian People’s Party (UPP) proposes to introduce alternate services of representatives of different denominations, reported the press service of UPP to UNIAN.
