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Socialist Can Save Ukraine by Leaving Speaker Post, Says Pagan Leader21.07.2006, [17:21] // Church-state relations //
Kyiv — Oleksandr Moroz, leader of the Socialist Party of Ukraine (SPU), can save the country by leaving his post as speaker of Parliament. So said Volodymyr Kurovskyi, high wizard of the Family Fire of the Native Orthodox Faith, on 20 July 2006.
Thousands of UOC-MP Orthodox in Kharkiv Process “to Defend Shrines”21.07.2006, [16:59] // UOC-MP //
Kharkiv — Thousands of faithful led by Bishop Onufrii (Lehkyi), vicar of the eastern Ukrainian Kharkiv Eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), on 19 July 2006 processed through Kharkiv. Their goal was “to defend the Orthodox shrines of the city from the claims of the Greek Catholics and schismatics of the so-called ‘Kyivan Patriarchate.’”
Numerous Orthodox Organizations in Ukraine Support Anti-crisis Coalition
21.07.2006, [16:58] // Church-state relations //
Kyiv — A number of Orthodox civic associations have come out in support of the parliamentary coalition created by the Party of Regions and the Socialist and Communist parties. interfax-religion.ru posted the news on 17 July 2006.
Miraculous Healing Occurs through Icon in Ivano-Frankivsk21.07.2006, [16:55] // UOC-MP //
Ivano-Frankivsk — Archbishop Mykolai (Hrokh) of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyia of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) visited a church in Verkhovyna, Ivano-Frankivsk Region, western Ukraine, on 16 July 2006 to celebrate the miraculous healing of a parishioner by a copy of the Pochaiv Mother of God icon.
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Synod Calls for Prayer, Work for Common Good21.07.2006, [14:36] // UGCC //
Lviv — The Synod of Bishops of the Kyiv-Halych Metropolitanate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) on 12 June released an address encouraging all members of the church to prayer and diligent work for the sake of a better future for the Ukrainian state. Patriarch Lubomyr (Husar), head of the UGCC, spoke about the document at a press-conference on 18 July 2006.
Russian Orthodox Form Commission on ROC Abroad Parishes in Ukraine21.07.2006, [14:25] // Orthodox //
Moscow-Kyiv — The Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) has decided to set up a special commission to solve questions of the parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (ROCA) in Ukraine and Moldova. The session, at which permanent member Metropolitan Volodymyr (Sabodan), head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), participated, was held in Moscow on 17 July 2006.
UOC-MP Orthodox Oppose New Head of Ukraine Parliament Spirituality Committee21.07.2006, [10:07] // UOC-MP //
Kyiv — Volodymyr Yavorivskyi of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc will most probably become the new head of the Ukrainian Parliament’s Committee on Matters of Culture and Spirituality. In this connection, in its information report “Headship of a committee of Parliament is again given to Uniates,” the press service of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) expressed its dissatisfaction. pravoslavye.org.ua posted the news on 18 July 2006.
Chernihiv Civic Leader Demands Church Transfers be Reviewed20.07.2006, [18:31] // Conflict //
Chernihiv — Vasyl Chepurnyi, head of the Enlightenment organization in northern Ukrainian Chernivhiv, released a statement in which he demands that the legality of the transfer of the city’s churches of the Savior and the Trinity be evaluated. The statement is in response to the continuing blockade of the local St. Catherine’s Cathedral by political parties and faithful of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP). blagovest-info.ru posted the news on 20 July 2006.
Christian Democrats in Lviv Encourage Tolerance
20.07.2006, [18:30] // Church-state relations //
Lviv — The Christian-Democratic Union of Youth (CDUY) had a congress in western Ukrainian Krekhiv, Zhovkva District, Lviv Region, from 16-19 July 2006. Approximately 40 representatives from all Ukraine assembled there under the slogan “Let’s build a temple together.” “The main task of the congress was working for and strengthening interdenominational tolerance among the members of the union, which has representatives not only from various denominations but from [various] religions, and also the forming of educational activities of the organization,” said Eduard Elin, head of CDUY.
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Exarch for Monastics Presented20.07.2006, [18:28] // UGCC //
Lviv — Patriarch Lubomyr (Husar), head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), meeting with all eight heads of men’s and women’s monastic communities of the UGCC, presented Bishop Hlib Lonchyna as exarchate in matters of monastic life. The meeting occurred in western Ukrainian Lviv on 18 July 2006.
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