… the law does not pertain to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, the church to which the majority of Ukrainian Christians belong. Claims that Ukraine banned the Orthodox Church entirely or that it ...

A second vote on the bill is necessary before being presented to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for final approval as a law. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) is part of the greater Eastern Orthodox ...

Ukraine’s parliament moved forward on Tuesday with long-standing plans to ban the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC). A lopsided 265 votes to 29 were cast in favor of a bill that will shut down religious ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spravdi, the Centre for Strategic Communications under the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, has explained ...

Ukrainian Orthodox Christians, along with many other orthodox Christians across the world, are celebrating Christmas Saturday. But a local pastor with St. Andrew’s Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral said ...

Ukrainian lawmakers on August 20 approved a bill banning religious organizations linked to the Russian Orthodox Church, which Kyiv has criticized for being supportive of Moscow's full-scale invasion.

A council of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) on Friday resolved on its “full self-sufficiency and independence,” distancing the Church from Russian Orthodoxy. The decision comes ...

A coalition of bipartisan lawmakers introduced a bill Thursday to shed light on the alleged persecution of Christians and other religions by Russian forces in occupied Ukraine — but it leaves out one ...

LVIV, Ukraine (RNS) — On a recent Sunday, Ukrainian Orthodox Abbott Job Olshansky faced 50 stoic parishioners and presented his case for why the community should switch to the Gregorian liturgical ...

The Ukrainian community in New Britain is gearing up for a joyful holiday. Volunteers from St. Mary’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church have been preparing since Wednesday, baking traditional Easter food, ...

Patriarch Filaret of Kyiv — who worked for decades to establish an independent Ukrainian Orthodox church that was free from Moscow's religious authority, a schism that foreshadowed the Russia-Ukraine ...