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20. Dezember 2018
On December 20, 2018, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted bill number 5309, voted for by 240 MPs. MPs from the Opposition Bloc voted against it. Speaker of the Parliament Andriy Parubiy emphasizes that the bill was passed at the personal request of Patriarch Emeritus Filaret. The bill sponsored by MP Alexander Bryhintsev and a number of other MPs suggests amending the standard law entitled On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Organizations so that a religious organization whose ...
20. Dezember 2018
The All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations strongly opposes the use of law enforcement agencies by Ukrainian officials to propagate any ideologies (in particular, the gender ideology), for the purposes of censorship and restrictions of freedom of conscience, opinion, and expression. This is stated in the appeal of the AUCCRO addressed to the Prime Minister of Ukraine on December 11, the Institute of Religious Freedom reports. The reason for this appeal was the aggressi...
20. Dezember 2018
On December 12, 2018, the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church appealed to clergy, monastics and lay people with the message “God's Word and Catechism.” The message says that the whole Church is responsible for Christian upbringing of their faithful, but the faithful can also fulfill this mission by sharing faith in the resurrected Christ. Therefore, as the message says, the family is a home church, and the parents are the first educators of the faith. “Dear parents! You a...
13. Dezember 2018
Das Vereinigungskonzil zur Gründung einer autokephalen Ukrainischen Orthodoxen Kirche soll am 15. Dezember stattfinden. Das verkündete zumindest der ukrainische Präsident Petro Poroschenko, nachdem die Hl. Synode des Ökumenischen Patriarchats an ihrer letzten Sitzung kein Datum genannt hatte. In der Einladung zum Konzil, die Patriarch Bartholomaios an die ukrainischen Hierarchen gesandt hat, wird mitgeteilt, dass Metropolit Emmanuel (Adamakis) von Frankreich den Vorsitz der Versammlung haben ...
13. Dezember 2018
In Rivne in der Westukraine sind mehrere Priester der Ukrainischen Orthodoxen Kirche–Moskauer Patriarchat (UOK–MP) vom Sicherheitsdienst der Ukraine (SBU) verhört worden. Ihnen werden Staatsverrat und die Verletzung der Rechte von Bürgern aufgrund ihrer Rasse, Nationalität oder Religion vorgeworfen. Anscheinend geht es um die Verbreitung von russischer Propagandaliteratur durch Geistliche des Moskauer Patriarchats. Der SBU machte mit Verweis auf die laufende Untersuchung keine näheren Angaben...
13. Dezember 2018
His Eminence Metropolitan Agafangel of Odessa and Izmail has appealed to His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia to assist in ensuring the release and sending home of the Ukrainian sailors who were detained by the Russian border service in the Kerch Strait incident on November 25. “Only the Orthodox Church can become the sole link above the confrontation whose authoritative voice can be heard on both sides of the conflict,” His Eminence writes in his open letter that was publis...
13. Dezember 2018
During the 51st meeting of the Conference of the Roman Catholic Bishops in Ukraine, which was taking place in Bryukhovychi, Lviv region, from November 30 to December 1, a new chairman of the Conference was elected. This is reported by the Catholic Media Center. For the next five years, Bishop Bronislav Bernatsky, the Ordinary of the Odesa-Simferopol Diocese became chairman of the Conference of Roman Catholic Bishops in Ukraine. Metropolitan of Lviv Archbishop Mieczysław Mokrzycki was elected ...
30. November 2018
Die Hl. Synode des Ökumenischen Patriarchats hat ein weiteres Mal bestätigt, der Kirche in der Ukraine die Autokephalie zu verleihen. In Vorbereitung zur Verleihung des Autokephalie-Tomos sei an der jüngsten Sitzung der Hl. Synode vom 27. bis 29. November die Verfassungsurkunde der Ukrainischen Orthodoxen Kirche entworfen worden. Das Treffen des kirchlichen Leitungsgremiums war mit großer Spannung erwartet worden, weil im Vorfeld damit gerechnet worden war, dass die Hl. Synode ein konkretes D...
30. November 2018
The Pope for Ukraine Initiative was implemented in Europe to help victims of hostilities in the east of Ukraine on the initiative of Pope Francis. As Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti said at a press conference, the total amount of EUR 16 million was collected for the campaign, a Ukrinform journalist reports. “The Pope wanted that the manner in which this aid would be distributed was special. On Sunday, during the Angel of the Lord prayer, the Pope said from a window of his apostolic palace that...