On the day of the Protection Veil in the Nativity of the Mother of God Church of the city Lisbon a meeting of Ukrainian chaplains who minister in Portugal was held. Celebrating the Divine Liturgy, which was led by Fr.

CHERNIVTSI — The leader of the Party of Regions, Viktor Yanukovych, is convinced that the leadership of the state should not interfere in the process of establishing one Ukrainian national Orthodox church. According to a UNIAN report, he stated these

KYIV — Interfax reported on October 14, 2009, with a reference to the Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's personal website, that Yulia Tymoshenko is going to visit the Vatican on October 16. In addition, she plans to make a pilgrimage

KYIV — On October 12, 2009, in the Kyiv Monastery of the Caves at the residence of the primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Volodymyr met with Father Leonid Kishkovsky, deputy head of the Office of External Affairs

KYIV — According to the web site of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), on Sunday, October 11, 2009, the participants of the 1st All-Ukraine Orthodox Mass Media and Cinema Festival of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church visited the Kyiv Monastery

KYIV — On October 9, 2009, the 7th International Festival of Orthodox Cinema and Mass Media "Pokrov" was launched in Kyiv under the motto "On unity and agreement." The main event of the festival was the all-Ukrainian night showing of

ZHYTOMYR — After his archpastoral visit of October 7, 2009, to the Diocese of Chernihiv, where he was first enthroned as a ruling bishop, the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), Metropolitan Volodymyr, on October 8—the commemoration day

On October 8, 2009, in the city of Kolomyia there was an attempt to bring the Ukrainian Christian spirit and Ukrainian national flavor to the Euro-2012 soccer tournament. The specially painted icon of the Mother of God and the Child

The Consistory Office of Public Relations of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA recently published a press release on the activity of St. Andrew's Society, a philanthropic and charitable organization of faithful of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the

A Special Session of the Standing Conference of the Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas (SCOBA) met on September 25, 2009 from 10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., hosted by the Chairman of SCOBA, Archbishop Demetrios of America, at the headquarters

Interview with Bishop MAKARII (Meletych), Archbishop of Lviv of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, on the affairs of the UAOC, its relations with the Ecumenical Patriarchate, and inter-Orthodox relations in Ukraine.

The first Catholic Social Days of Europe are taking place this weekend, October 8-11, 2009, in Gdansk, Poland. The delegate of the meeting from the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the head of the Commission of UGCC for assistance of unity

KYIV-MOSCOW — By the invitation of the chair of the Synodal Information Department of the Russian Orthodox Church Volodymyr Legoyda and with the blessing of the primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate, the chair of the Synodal Department for

KYIV — On October 8, 2009, on the premises of the patriarchate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate (UOC-KP), a ceremony of passing archive materials about church buildings, which formerly belonged to the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church and were confiscated

LVIV — As part of the Ecumenical Social Week dedicated to themes of social responsibility, on the premises of the Lviv Regional Council took place a round table discussion "Policy of the neighborhood: support of social initiatives by the EU."

КYIV — During a meeting with the delegation of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko noted that she supports the idea of opening in Kyiv a permanent representative office of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and expressed her conviction that

KYIV — At a press conference "Unification of the Ukrainian Orthodox" on the results of the recent meeting between representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP), the head of the synodal department

MOSCOW — Interfax reported on October 7, 2009, that the head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk has denied reports that Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia might visit the Vatican in

From October 1 to 4, 2009, an annual plenary meeting of the Council of Episcopal Conferences of Europe (Consilium Conferentiarum Episcoporum Europae (CCEE)) was held in France, in which the heads and official representatives of the 34 national Episcopal conferences