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Religion and Society

In various ways the Churches and other religious organizations of Ukraine influence their society and society likewise exerts its own influence on religion.

Articles on social themes:

• Religious Freedom in Ukraine: The Current Context
• Canonical territory of the Moscow Patriarchate. An analysis of contempory Russian Orthodox thought — pdf-format — Fr. J. Buciora of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada
• Memory on the Pope
• The Destiny of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church at the Beginning of the 21st Century
• Interreligious relations
• Church Strength in Ukraine and How Religious is Ukraine? Results of Survey Research
• Interconfessional Intolerance in Ukraine
• The Need for Reform in Orthodoxy
• The Processes of Institutional Religion in Ukraine
  An analysis of the official government statistics from 2001 regarding religious groups in Ukraine (Statistics given in our Resources section)
• Protestants in the Former Soviet Union: What Survey Findings Reveal
• Religious Freedom Report on Ukraine (U.S. State Department), released on 31 March 2003
• Religious Freedom Report on Ukraine (U.S. State Department), released on October 26, 2001
• Religious Mass Media in Ukraine
• Social Problems in Ukraine and the Response of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church to the Challenges of the Times
• Ukraine responds to the Papal Visit
  Brief articles on how Pope John Paul II's visit to Ukraine in June 2001 was received by different groups, secular and religious