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

On October 5, 2009, in Kyiv, took place the presentation of the book "Children's Gospel: Stories about Jesus." The book, which was issued by the publishing house "A-BA-BA-GA-LA-MA-HA," was presented by representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), the

In an interview for the Ukrainian service of BBC in London, which was aired on radio "Era" on September 28, 2009, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Patriarch Lubomyr welcomed the steps for the start or renewing of

TORONTO-KYIV — On September 26-29, 2009, the Wonderworking Pochayiv Icon of the Mother of God visited Toronto, Canada. The wonderworking icon stayed in the Church of Christ the Savior (Orthodox Church in America), having been brought from Montreal, where at

KYIV - President Viktor Yushchenko received the delegation of the Ecumenical Patriarchate: Metropolitan Emmanuel of France, Secretary General of the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople archimandrite Elpidoforos Lambriniadis, and priest Vasilius Papafanasius. The presidential press-service reported this story

KYIV — On October 5, 2009, the delegation of the Constantinople Patriarchate was received by the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), Metropolitan Volodymyr, in his residence in the Kyiv Monastery of the Caves. The delegation included Metropolitan

KYIV — On October 4, 2009, on the premises of the patriarchate of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC), the hierarchs of the UAOC met with the delegation of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. "We treat the Ecumenical Patriarch with great respect