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UOC-KP Orthodox Head and President Pray for Holodomor (Famine) Victims
31.03.2005, [18:50] // Religious ceremony //
Kyiv– Patriarch Filaret (Denysenko), head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate (UOC-KP), served a panakhyda (memorial service) for the souls of the victims of the Ukrainian Holodomor (Stalin-engineered famine) of 1932 –3. The service took place on 26 March 2005 in the Patriarchal Cathedral of St. Volodymyr, with the participation of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, and other government representatives.

Committee for Protection of National Monuments Created in Ukraine
31.03.2005, [18:49] // Church-state relations //
Kyiv – The creation of a state committee on the protection of national monuments was declared by Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko in a meeting of the College of the Ministry of Education on 24 March 2005. According to the president, the number one issue for the committee to start working on is the problem of the historic Tithe Church in Kyiv.

Russian Orthodox Question Statement of Constantinople Representative
30.03.2005, [10:17] // Foreign relations //
Moscow – Archpriest Nikolai Balashov, official representative of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), said he questions reports about an alleged statement Archbishop Vsevolod (Majdanski), Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the USA (UOC USA) and a representative of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, made during a meeting of the official delegation of the Constantinople Patriarchate with Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko on. 24 March. Archbishop Vsevolod said that Constantinople does not accept the canonical legality of the Kyivan Metropolitanate’s subordination to the Moscow Patriarchate since 1686. Sedmitza.ru posted the news on 28 March 2005.

UOC-KP and UOC-MP Orthodox Leaders Comment on Jurisdiction of Russian Orthodox Church
28.03.2005, [13:11] // Foreign relations //
Kyiv—Metropolitan Volodymyr (Sabodan), head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), and Patriarch Filaret (Denysenko), head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate (UOC-MP), discussed the possibility of the UOC-MP becoming independent of the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church. The discussion was broadcast on TV Channel 5 in Kyiv on 27 March 2005. The text of the broadcast follows.

Autocephalous Orthodox Kharkiv and Poltava Sobor Proposes Constantinople Representation in Kyiv
28.03.2005, [13:08] // UAOC //
Kharkiv – The Church of St. Andrew in Kyiv should become a court of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. This was one of the proposals approved at the 16th Eparchial Sobor (Assembly) of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) eparchy of Kharkiv and Poltava, which took place in eastern Ukrainian Kharkiv on 24 March 2005. St. Andrew’s Church is presently under the jurisdiction of Metropolitan Mefodii (Kudriakov), head of the UAOC, who is not in communion with the church’s Kharkiv and Poltava eparchy.

Odesa’s Roman Catholics Repeatedly Denied Property Return
28.03.2005, [13:05] // Violation of rights //
Odesa– A letter from Ukraine’s Ministry of Transport and Communications was addressed to Bishop Bronislaw Bernacki of the Roman Catholic diocese of Odesa and Simferopol. The letter, signed by Deputy Minister Netudykhata, again rejects the Roman Catholic faithful’s requests for the return of their property in southern Ukrainian Odesa confiscated by the Soviet regime. The bishop does not see any active steps yet taken by the “fair government that we hoped for.” This news was posted on RISU’s Ukrainian-language site on 24 March 2005.

Kyiv Architects Forbid Church Construction in Park
28.03.2005, [13:04] // Church-state relations //
Kyiv– The City Construction Council of Kyiv did not allow the parish of Prince Volodymyr the Great, Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate, to carry out their project of a chapel construction on Honchar St. in the center of the Chkalov Park in Kyiv. The architects think that should religious services be held in the church, the parishioners will ruin the vegetation and orderliness of the park. The news was posted on RISU’s Ukrainian-language site on 24 March 2005.

Russian Orthodox Meets with Ukrainian Cossacks
28.03.2005, [13:01] // Foreign relations //
Moscow – Patriarch Alexis II, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, received a delegation of the Ukrainian Registered Cossacks civic organization in his patriarchal residence on 24 March 2005. Problems confronting the Orthodox Church in Ukraine were discussed, as well as issues related to strengthening friendly relations between the Orthodox peoples of Ukraine and Russia.

UOC–MP Orthodox Are Asked to Help Young Cancer Patients
28.03.2005, [12:57] // Charitable activities //
Kyiv – The Ukrainian Open Association of Organizations, which works with children who have cancer, has called the faithful of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church–Moscow Patriarchate (UOC – MP) to put as much effort as possible into helping the young patients. The UOC–MP press service reported this on 24 March 2005.

Constantinople Doesn’t Recognize Kyiv Church as under Moscow, Says Ukrainian Orthodox USA Archbishop
26.03.2005, [09:45] // Foreign relations //
New Jersey, USA— “The Moscow Patriarchate consists of that territory which it encompassed to the year 1686.” Archbishop Vsevolod (Majdanski) of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA (UOC USA), a representative of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, told this to Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko at a meeting on 24 March 2005. The archbishop added that Kyiv’s “subjugation” to the Russian Orthodox Church, starting that year and continuing to the present, was not ratified by Constantinople.

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