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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:

On the 1020th Anniversary of the Baptism of Rus’-Ukraine
21.07.2008, [16:53] // Analysis & comments //
This year our Metropolitanate, the Kyivan, once the largest by territory, is celebrating 1020 years from the time of its official baptism. This is a holy day not only for Kyiv but for the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. The history of Ukrainian Christianity is long and fairly complicated, and not unambiguous from the historical point of view; not infrequently everything did not go as Constantinople and Kyiv would have liked. There were moments of misunderstanding, but never in its more than 1000-year history did our spiritual daughter, the Kyivan Metropolitanate, reject its connections with its Mother, the Patriarchate of Constantinople.

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“In regard to the last mayoral elections of Kyiv, when we speak about the victory of one candidate or another, it is very conditional.”
11.07.2008, [10:02] // Analysis & comments //
EVSTRATIJ (Zorya), bishop of Vasyliv, vicar of the Kyiv Eparchy, head of the Information-Publishing Department of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyivan Patriarchate

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Parliamentary Head’s Appearance at PACE: Anti-Semitism and Xenophobia in Ukraine
23.05.2008, [18:40] // Analysis & comments //
Maxim VASYN, executive director of the Institute of Religious Freedom (Kyiv), L.L.B.
Commentary on Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko’s appearance at the PACE conference, 16 April 2008.

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It is not the new religious trends that are booming but the journalists trying to write about them
03.04.2008, [11:00] // Analysis & comments //
Liudmyla FYLYPOVYCH, doctor of philosophy, head of the Department of Religious Processes in Ukraine at the Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, executive director of the Center of Religious Information and Freedom of the Ukrainian Association of Religious Studies Experts

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Church-state relations: What the new year has in store for us.
22.01.2008, [17:18] // Analysis & comments //
Volodymyr MARUSHCHENKO, national deputy of Ukraine, senior assistant head of the Christian Democratic Union

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• 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