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The Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations, which represents the varied Christian, Jewish, and Muslim bodies of Ukraine, categorically CONDEMNS the terrorist attacks of the Russian Federation carried out, once again, on December 29, 2023, against Ukrainian cities, civil infrastructure, and civilians.  The Ukrainian Council of Churches CALLS UPON all states of the world that declare respect for the value of human life and international law to condemn the actions of the R…

The head of the commission of the Ministry of Culture for the acceptance and transfer of state property sites of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, Mariana Tomin, stated on a national telethon that three objects of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra are still barricaded by unknown individuals.This was reported by Censor.NET. "We returned the property to the state and transferred all these sites to the reserve, but as of today, there are three facilities (buildings 54, 57, and 58) where unknown individuals barricad…

On 26 December, the final meeting of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in 2023 was held at Saint Panteleimon Convent at Feofaniia, Kyiv, and was chaired by the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufriy of Kyiv and All Ukraine. The UOC Information and Education Department publishes the results of the meeting. Having considered the reports of diocesan bishops, the Holy Synod approved the appointment of the abbot of Saint Panteleimon Monastery of t…

A group of far-right activists on 10. January surrounded the house of an activist accused of painting over a controversial icon, after Georgia’s interior ministry launched an investigation into the act on charges of hooliganism. On 9. January, activist Nata Peradze published a video on Facebook showing blue paint on an icon of St. Matrona that depicts the 20th century saint in the company of a man resembling the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. The icon is in the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi…

A handful of clerics of the Georgian Orthodox Church have burned the flag of the European Union in protest of the nation’s bid to join the international movement. In this way, they also showed their solidarity with Lasha Sharukhia, who was sentenced to pre-trial detention for taking down and burning the EU flag at Mtskheta City Hall, writes Georgian News. According to the source, the priests Genadi Gogilashvili and Iakob Mestvirishvili and the deacons Spyridon Tskipurishvili and Basil Akhvledi…

On Thursday, December 28, the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem gathered under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem. According to the Synodal report, “His Beatitude and the Holy Synod exchanged messages with His Beatitude John X, Patriarch of Antioch, regarding the restoration of ecclesiastical communion with the Patriarchate of Jerusalem.” The Antiochian Synod broke communion with the Church of Jerusalem on April 29, 2014, over a dispute concerning…

Der Leiter des Präsidialamtes der Ukraine, Andrij Jermak, hat mit dem Friedensbeauftragten des Papstes telefoniert. Jermak habe Kardinal Matteo Zuppi über Russlands jüngste Raketenangriffe auf die Ukraine unterrichtet, teilte die ukrainische Botschaft beim Heiligen Stuhl am 8. Januar mit. Weiteres Thema sei die Teilnahme eines Vatikan-Vertreters beim bevorstehenden Treffen der Nationalen Sicherheitsberater zur Ukraine im schweizerischen Davos gewesen. Dort sei auch eine Sitzung zu humanitären F…

Metropolitan Epifaniy (Dumenko) believes that in some time the Pochayiv Lavra will definitely pass to the OCU. Just as it happened with the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. He stated this in an interview with Suspilne. "This is a gradual and long process, similar to the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. We want this process to take place calmly and peacefully. That is, without any confrontations. Therefore, we need time. Over two years, more than two thousand religious communities have joined us. This gradualness also…

In der aktuellen Sterbehilfe-Debatte in Ungarn hat sich Bischof János Székely für die Bewahrung einer Kultur der Lebensbejahung ausgesprochen und vor den Folgen einer Freigabe von assistiertem Suizid für die Gesellschaft gewarnt. Das Leben mit seinem unendlichen Wert sei ein Geschenk, das „nach endlichen und nach menschlichen Maßstäben nicht abgewogen werden kann“, sagte der Bischof von Szombathely auf Anfrage der Nachrichtenagentur Kathpress. Ausdrücklich warnte Székely davor, dass bei einer F…