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