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2015 News Items
Patriarch Kirill approves Russian
military actions
December 31, 2015
Leaflet war among Ukrainian
Orthodox
December 30, 2015
Diverse
ways that Jehovah's Witnesses violate Russian law
December 30, 2015
Chaplin
calls for making Ukraine a Christian state
December 30, 2015
Russian foreign ministry complains
about western inaction in Ukraine
December 29, 2015
Jehovah's Witnesses are special
target of restrictive legislation
December 29, 2015
Dispute erupts over use of
Ukrainian language in worship
December 29, 2015
Archpriest loses powerful position
December 29, 2015
Patriarch responds to criticism
from deposed spokesman
December 29, 2015
Commentary on personnel shakeup in
patriarchate
December 28, 2015
Ukrainian Orthodox church reports
abuses
December 28, 2015
Shakeup in patriarchate reveals
disputes within church
December 27, 2015
Chaplin's dismissal raises question
of who is a real conservative
December 26, 2015
Another Russian state burdens
religious evangelism
December 24, 2015
Prominent church spokesman stripped
of authority
December 24, 2015
Dismissed patriarchal spokesman
explains dispute with patriarch
December 24, 2015
Jehovah's Witness fined for
possession of extremist material
December 15, 2015
European court accepts complaint
from Russian pastor
December 14, 2015
Some Ukrainians seek to take
prominent Kiev monastery from Moscow
December 10, 2015
Russian parliament questions how to
deal with Jehovah's Witnesses
December 8, 2015
Moscow patriarchate fears
subversion by non-Russian religions
December 8, 2015
Europeans investigate church
conflicts in Ukraine
December 8, 2015
Russian governor threatens
Jehovah's Witnesses
December 7, 2015
Some Orthodox fear Catholic crusade
against Ukraine
December 7, 2015
Jehovah's Witnesses do not fit into
neo-stalinist Russia
December 4, 2015
Location of 2016 world meeting of
Orthodox churches in doubt (2)
December 1, 2015
Ukrainian Orthodox church building
damaged by fire
December 1, 2015
Another Orthodox church burned in
Ukraine
November 30, 2015
Orthodox church in Ukraine object
of dispute
November 30, 2015
Taganrog court finally delivers
verdict against Jehovah's Witnesses
November 30, 2015
Persecution of Ukrainian
protestants in rebel territories
November 30, 2015
Russian Orthodox observe "Little
Lent," or "Advent" in the West
November 28, 2015
Russian Jews mark quarter century
of freedom
November 27, 2015
Ukrainian Orthodox Church
succeeding in court
November 26, 2015
Location of 2016 world meeting of
Orthodox churches in doubt
November 25, 2015
UPTsMP parish in western Ukraine
retains possession of church building
November 25, 2015
Ukrainian nationalists' attempt to
Ukrainize east thwarted
November 25, 2015
Patriarch Kirill's book in Turkish
held up by international tensions
November 25, 2015
Russian church defends its place in
public education
November 25, 2015
Duma deputy defends Orthodox bishop
against Jehovah's Witnesses
November 24, 2015
Putin gets his law on sacred texts
November 24, 2015
Government newspaper states case
against Scientology
November 24, 2015
Vandalism blamed on Kiev
patriarchate
November 23, 2015
Orthodox clergy lament decline of
interest in studying religion in schools
November 23, 2015
Jehovah's Witnesses try to use
justice system against officials
November 23, 2015
Moscow court liquidates group of
Scientologists
November 23, 2015
Moscow patriarch is 69 years
old
November 21, 2015
Russian
Orthodox dealings with communists are complex
November 20, 2015
Rome corrects wrong impression made
by bishop in Crimea
November 19, 2015
Ukrainian churches resist
protection of homosexual rights
November 19, 2015
Orthodox stage pogrom in
evangelical church
November 19, 2015
New Russian law allows intrusion
into affairs of religious congregations
November 18, 2015
Russians arrested for possession of
Islamist booklets
November 18, 2015
Russian evangelical leader speaks
out on Paris massacre
November 14, 2015
Remains of Russian tsarist family
receiving considerable public attention
November 13, 2015
Russian prosecutor proposes new way
to inhibit Jehovah's Witnesses' activity
November 12, 2015
Tensions between Ukrainian Greek
Catholics and Moscow grow
November 12, 2015
Patriarch Kirill's comments about
Stalin stir a row
November 11, 2015
Patriarch Kirill rejects western
civilization for Russian people
November 10, 2015
Ukrainian religious leaders think
religion law contains soviet-like restriction
November 5, 2015
Provincial court overrules court
decision banning Muslim text
November 5, 2015
Russian lawmakers dispute
exemptions for religious texts
November 5, 2015
European Jehovah's Witnesses appeal
for acquittal of Russian colleagues
November 4, 2015
Censorship war in Russia and
Ukraine
October 30, 2015
Number of Ukrainian Orthodox
parishes changing jurisdictions triples
October 29, 2015
Ukrainian Orthodox Church complains
about rights abuses
October 27, 2015
Contrast between Ukrainian and
Moscow point of view on current situation
October 27, 2015
Violence against supporters of
UPTsMP
October 27, 2015
Prospects for unity of Ukrainian
Orthodoxy
October 26, 2015
Rumors of anointing of Patriarch
Kirill's successor
October 24, 2015
Bitterness between Ukrainian
Catholics and Russian Orthodox
October 23, 2015
Ukrainian news agency reports
Moscow patriarchate's problems in relations with other
Orthodox churches
October 23, 2015
Failed attempt to commandeer church
building in Luhansk province
October 22, 2015
Russian news agency reports close
bond of Ukrainian president and patriarch
October 22, 2015
Number of Russian provinces
regulating evangelism by foreigners to grow
October 22, 2015
Ukrainian commandos attack church
in separatist territory
October 21, 2015
UPTsMP recovers church
commandeered by UPTsKP
October 20. 2015
Russian religious leaders
suggest changes in Putin's law on sacred scriptures
October 20, 2015
Orthodox, Muslim, and Jewish
leaders approve Putin's law
October 19, 2015
Church in Donetsk area subject of
controversy over jurisdiction
October 16, 2015
Varieties of reactions to
Putin's law from religious leaders
October 15, 2015
Provincial court to hear Chechen
leader's complaint
October 14, 2015
Putin intervenes to protect Quran
and other scriptures
October 14, 2015
Russian Pentecostals harassed over
meeting place
October 13, 2015
Moscow patriarchate presents
complaints against Ukrainian Orthodox bishops to all
Orthodox churches
October 13, 2015
Buddhists challenge lama's
expulsion in court
October 12, 2015
Reason for
deportation of Buddhist teacher unknown
October 9, 2015
Moscow patriarch alarmed
about approach of war to Russia
October 8, 2015
Ukraine
acknowledges right of conscientious objection
October 7, 2015
Arab Christians
reject Russian Christian justification of Putin's
military actions
October 7, 2015
Russian
government reacts to photos compromising
Patriarch Kirill
October 7, 2015
UPTsMP
patriotism questioned
October 7, 2015
Ukrainian rebel areas crack down on
protestants
October 7, 2015
Ukrainian
Orthodox appeal to OSCE monitors over church seizures
October 6, 2015
Russian rights advocates challenge
current system
October 5, 2015
Appeals against court's ruling
quotations from Quran extremist
October 5, 2015
Fewer
than thirty churches taken from Moscow church in
Ukraine
October 5, 2015
Splinter of
Ukrainian autocephalous church to join Greek Catholic
Church
October 5, 2015
Young Jehovah's
Witness avoids legal prosecution
October 2, 2015
Kidnapped Ukrainian
Pentecostal pastor set free
October 2, 2015
Kiev patriarchate claims double
the followers of Moscow patriarchate
October 1, 2015
Ukrainian separatists
threaten to drive protestants away
October 1, 2015
Ukrainian Orthodox church takes
case to OSCE
October 1, 2015
Charity
director fined for possession of Jehovah's Witnesses
literature
September 30, 2015
Tibetan lama threatened
with deportation from Russia
September 30, 2015
Religious leaders of Russia approve
air action in Syria
September 30, 2015
Russian parliament intervenes in
misuse of anti-extremism law against religious groups
September 30, 2015
Orthodox Church declares support
for military intervention in Syria
September 30, 2015
Kiev patriarch airs complaints
about other Orthodox churches
September 29, 2015
Ukrainian rebels kidnap protestant
clergyman
September 29, 2015
Ukrainian protestants harassed in
rebel zone
September 28, 2015
Ukrainian Orthodox continue to
report conflict over church buildings
September 28, 2015
Moscow police act against exotic
religious group
September 10, 2015
Constantinople patriarch asserts
leadership role
September 9, 2015
Vigilantism in art exhibit may yet
be punished
September 8, 2015
Vigilante action in Moscow exhibit
hall not subject to criminal proceedings
September 7, 2015
Ukrainian security service claims
that Orthodox priests support rebels
September 7, 2015
Moscow patriarch reiterates
standard Muscovite bias
September 6, 2015
Orthodox Church can afford
maintenance of architectural monument
September 4, 2015
Russian media repeat negative news
about Jehovah's Witnesses
September 4, 2015
Meeting of all bishops of
patriarchate of Constantinople looks at Ukraine
September 3, 2015
St. Petersburg engrossed in
controversy over use of big church
September 2, 2015
State Department official shows
American interest in Ukraine
September 2, 2015
Moscow church metropolitan reacts
to Kiev violence
September 1, 2015
Roman Catholic bishop in Ukraine
reacts to Kiev violence
September 1, 2015
Kiev patriarch reacts to Kiev
violence
September 1, 2015
Ukrainian Catholic leaders react to
Kiev violence
September 1, 2015
Ukrainian
Orthodox Church complains about coverage in media
August 28, 2015
Zealots attack sculpture in St.
Petersburg also
August 27, 2015
Ukrainian political leaders involve
Constantinople patriarch in Ukrainian situation
August 27, 2015
Jehovah's Witnesses accused of
extremism in talk of Armageddon
August 26, 2015
Devotees of Krishna in Moscow
criticized
August 25, 2015
Ukrainian church disputes report of
defection of monastery in western Ukraine
August 25, 2015
Ukrainian political and religious
leaders mark Independence Day in Hagia Sophia
August 24, 2015
UPTsMP service disrupted outside
Kiev
August 23, 2015
Summaries of testimony of Jehovah's
Witnesses on trial in Taganrog
August 22, 2015
Orthodox Church casts doubt on news
reports of incident in Manezh
August 22, 2015
Jehovah's Witnesses literature
seized
August 21, 2015
Whether to open criminal case in
pogrom yet to be decided
August 21, 2015
Defection of Moscow monastery in
western Ukraine
August 21, 2015
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Possible hint of increased pressure
on nontraditional religions
August 20, 2015
Orthodox vigilantes frighten heads
of museums
August 19, 2015
Vigilantism incident not going away
quietly
August 18, 2015
Conflict rages over vigilantism in
Moscow
August 17, 2015
Vigilantism in Moscow exhibition
hall
August 14, 2015
Ukrainian Orthodox Church restates
position on divisions
August 13, 2015
Ukrainian Christian leaders prevail
upon authorities to halt gay-pride parade
August 13, 2015
Ukrainian priest identified as
member of rebel battalion
August 12, 2015
Ukrainian clergy unite against
public defense of gay rights
August 12, 2015
Ukrainian bureaucrat active in
helping religious organizations
August 11, 2015
Orthodox Church expands teaching of
religion in public schools
August 11, 2015
Jehovah's Witnesses state their
position on child's attendance at meetings
August 7, 2015
Jehovah's Witness fined for taking
ten-year-old to church
August 6, 2015
Moscow church in Ukraine besieged
August 6, 2015
Jehovah's Witnesses rebuffed by
Russian Supreme Court
August 5, 2015
Orthodox churches in Crimea have
complicated status
August 5, 2015
Opponents of church construction in
Moscow arrested
August 3, 2015
Moscow Orthodox church fends off
Constantinople's role in Ukraine
August 3, 2015
Dispute over building a church
leads to brawl
August 3, 2015
Moscow church irritated by
Ukrainian president's actions
July 30, 2015
Evangelical minister appeals to
European court against Russian violation of rights
July 29, 2015
Ukrainian Orthodox priest and nun
killed
July 29, 2015
Ukrainian president injects himself
into church unity cause
July 29, 2015
Moscow and Kiev compete in
celebrating rise of Orthodoxy
July 28, 2015
Kiev patriarchate begs
Constantinople for support
July 28, 2015
Kiev patriarchate slams door on
Orthodox unity
July 28, 2015
Unjust legal proceedings deny
Jehovah's Witnesses access to website
July 27, 2015
Church property restored for
Orthodox university
July 27, 2015
Patriarch protests against charges
of too close relations of church and state
July 27, 2015
Moscow patriarch blames Ukraine's
problems on Greek Catholics
July 26, 2015
Russian Orthodox Church formalizes
ties with government
July 24, 2015
Russian officials suspect Quran is
extremist literature
July 23, 2015
Ukrainian Orthodox leader tries to
claim independence from Moscow
July 21, 2015
Crimean Muslims denied right to
assemble for traditional ritual
July 21, 2015
Jehovah's Witnesses' account of
event differs from officials' story
July 21, 2015
Moscow citizens' court case against
church construction unsuccessful
July 20, 2015
National forces intervene when
local officials fail to stop Jehovah's Witnesses rally
July 20, 2015
Moscow patriarch stresses primacy
of Russian language
July 20, 2015
Rome aims to make Ukrainian
national hero a saint
July 18, 2015
Moscow citizens oppose building
churches
July 17, 2015
Orthodox believers reject
appointment of alleged gay bishop
July 16, 2015
Russian officials treat Bible as
extremist literature
July 16, 2015
Russian law enforcement targets
protestant addiction rehab network
July 16, 2015
Russian court applies Supreme Court
ruling in Jehovah's Witnesses' favor
July 15, 2015
Kiev honors Ukrainian Greek
Catholic hero
July 15, 2015
Charges traded in aftermath of
failure of Ukrainian church unity
July 14, 2015
Jehovah's Witnesses face police
brutality
July 14, 2015
Jehovah's Witness fined for
literature demeaning human dignity
July 13, 2015
Moscow church mocks Ukrainian
Orthodox
July 11, 2015
Jehovah's Witnesses' distribution
of literature punished as illegal picketing
July 10, 2015
Metropolitan Makary denies
receiving bribe
July 10, 2015
UPTsKP appears to slam door on
UAPTs bishops
July 10, 2015
Ukrainian autocephalists balk at
suggestions from Kiev patriarchate
July 10, 2015
Open conflict in Moscow over
building church in park
July 9, 2015
Baptists in Crimea split over
whether to join Russian union
July 9, 2015
Appeals court defends Jehovah's
Witness
July 9, 2015
Ukrainian Orthodox claim that
officials ignore their complaints
July 9, 2015
Ukrainian church leader challenges
Moscow
July 8, 2015
City residents obstruct church
construction in St. Petersburg
July 7, 2015
Russian newspaper alarmed about new
religion law
July 6, 2015
Things turn bad for Jehovah's
Witnesses in Crimea
July 6, 2015
Late Ukrainian primate's secretary
discusses his legacy
July 4, 2015
Rights organization underscores
chief problems of Russian religious liberty
July 3, 2015
Russia gets revised religion law
July 3, 2015
Russian Orthodox Church uses
liturgical prayer for political purposes
July 3, 2015
Jehovah's Witness given harsh
prison term
July 2, 2015
Russian artist raises security
alarm over Jehovah's Witnesses
July 1, 2015
Foot-dragging on Ukrainian Orthodox
unity process
June 30,2015
Ukrainian clergy support Russian
dominion in Crimea
June 26, 2015
Competition over honoring Vladimir
or Dzerzhinsky on Moscow square
June 26, 2015
Ukrainian Orthodox leader tentative
about prospects for unity council
June 26, 2015
Ukrainian Orthodox Church offers
dialogue to UAPTs
June 25, 2015
Jehovah's Witnesses' literature
confiscated in Jewish region
June 24, 2015
Ukraine respects Jehovah's
Witnesses' right to conscientious objection
June 24, 2015
Moscow-oriented Ukrainian church
aids Russian assimilation of Crimea
June 24, 2015
Leading pro-Moscow bishop supports
Ukrainian fighters
June 23, 2015
Ukrainian security police round up
pro-Russian Catholic sect
June 23, 2015
Church in eastern Ukraine changes
jurisdiction
June 22, 2015
Ukrainian religious
communities cooperate on public actions
June 22, 2015
Weakened Ukrainian bishop hints at
anti-Russian view
June 22, 2015
Fines do not stop
Jehovah's Witnesses
June 21, 2015
Rebel official implicates Orthodox
Church in separatist action
June 19, 2015
UPTsKP moves forward in
preparing unity council
June 19, 2015
Moscow Ukrainian church rebuts
reports about new UAPTs diocese
June 18, 2015
Siberian press against Jehovah's
Witnesses
June 17, 2015
Proposed law alarms religious
studies expert
June 17, 2015
Patriarch Filaret optimistic about
unification sobor
June 17, 2015
Disagreements cast doubt over
Ukrainian Orthodox unification
June 16, 2015
What do Pope Francis and President
Putin have in common?
June 16, 2015
Russian government again seeks to
tighten auditing of religious organizations
June 16, 2015
Tentative steps toward harmony
between Moscow Orthodox and Vatican
June 16, 2015
Divine justice grinds slowly in
Georgia
June 15, 2015
UPTsMP repeats standard account of
alleged attempt to seize church
June 15, 2015
Russia sponsors education to combat
Islamist influence
June 15, 2015
New diocese of UAPTs organized
with 12 parishes from UPTsMP
June 11, 2015
Ukrainian Baptists repressed in
rebel areas
June 11, 2015
Presses of Russia and Ukraine have
differing takes on Putin's meeting with pope
June 11, 2015
Government harasses Jehovah's
Witnesses but does not abolish them
June 10, 2015
Reactions to prospect of
unification of Ukrainian Orthodox churches
June 10, 2015
Two Ukrainian Orthodox churches
agree to hold unity council
June 9, 2015
Ukrainians in Crimea suffer
discrimination
June 8, 2015
Ukrainian Orthodox churches damaged
near Kiev
June 8, 2015
Censored UPTsMP cleric transfers
into UAPTs
June 8, 2015
Smallest Ukrainian Orthodox church
invites intrusion in Ukraine by Constantinople
June 7, 2015
Ukrainian Orthodox parishes
dispute affiliation
June 5, 2015
Ukrainian Orthodox
churches talk merger
June 5, 2015
Jehovah's Witnesses in north
Caucasus subjected to unreasonable search and seizure
June 5, 2015
Ukrainian legislators plan reforms
to benefit religious believers
June 5, 2015
Smallest
Orthodox church of Ukraine holds national council
June 4, 2015
Moscow finally submits to European
court's decision in Jehovah's Witnesses' favor
June 3, 2015
Patriarch Kirill passes on
opportunity to meet Pope Francis
June 3, 2015
Law on religion prepared for
Crimea
June 3, 2015
Orthodox of UPTsMP summarize
instances of church seizures
June 3, 2015
Jehovah's Witnesses keep
distributing banned literature
June 2, 2015
Ukrainian Greek
Catholic leader received by head of government
June 2, 2015
Officials and Jewish
community dispute over parochial school
June 1, 2015
Moscow-oriented Ukrainian Orthodox
appeal to president of Ukraine
June 1, 2015
Ukrainian Orthodox church damaged
by artillery fire despite ceasefire
June 1, 2015
Kiev Orthodox leader repeats his
straddle
May 29, 2015
Struggle within UPTsMP over future
with Moscow (2)
May 29, 2015
Muslims not persecuted like many
Christians in Ukrainian rebel regions
May 28, 2015
Struggle within UPTsMP over future
with Moscow
May 27, 2015
Tatarstan leader promotes
assimilation of Crimean Tatars in Russia
May 27, 2015
International gathering in Kiev to
analyze state-confessional relations
May 26, 2015
Ukrainian and Russian Orthodox
leaders get together
May 26, 2015
Jehovah's Witnesses trial to
continue at least two more weeks
May 26, 2015
New Russian law poses threat to
minority religions
May 25, 2015
Ukrainian Orthodox priest thrown
out of his village
May 25, 2015
Crimea slipping away from Ukrainian
Orthodox Church
May 25, 2015
Sunday name-calling in Moscow and
Kiev
May 24, 2015
Arson to UPTsMP church in
westernmost Ukrainian province
May 24, 2015
Question of polygamy resonating in
Russia
May 22, 2015
UPTsMP bishop in western Ukraine
sets idiosyncratic course
May 22, 2015
Rural Ukrainian village debates
jurisdiction of Orthodox parish
May 22, 2015
International forum pits
information about Ukraine against Russian propaganda
May 22, 2015
Jehovah's Witnesses prosecuted in
south of Russia
May 20, 2015
Ukrainian Orthodox criticize
metropolitan's protest
May 19, 2015
Kiev hosts Crimean Tatars prevented
from observing anniversary of deportation
May 19, 2015
Muslims in Crimea have difficulties
recovering rights
May 18, 2015
Jehovah's Witnesses in far south of
Russia framed by planted evidence
May 16, 2015
Jehovah's Witnesses win legal
recognition in Crimea
May 15, 2015
Ukrainians honor millennium of
martyrdom of Princes Boris and Gleb
May 14, 2015
Ukrainian pro-Moscow clergy serve
in separatist region
May 13, 2015
Russian news source defends
Ukrainian metropolitan's protest
May 13, 2015
UPTsKP criticizes UPTsMP response
to Russian action in eastern Ukraine
May 12, 2015
UPTsKP accepts UAPTs offer to
discuss merger
May 12, 2015
Ukrainian lawmakers call for
investigation of metropolitan's protest
May 12, 2015
Suburb of Donetsk finally gets
UPTsKP parish
May 11, 2015
Ukrainian president finesses
question about metropolitan's protest
May 11, 2015
Controversy over metropolitan's
protest continues
May 10, 2015
Ukrainian Orthodox leader tries to
overcome PR problem
May 9, 2015
Russian Justice Ministry faults
Pentecostals, Methodists, and Lutherans
May 8, 2015
Report about repression of religion
in Ukraine issued
May 8, 2015
Church plays role in high-level
Sino-Russian diplomacy
May 8, 2015
Head of Ukrainian Orthodox Church
makes a sit-down protest against war
May 8, 2015
Lackey of patriarchate states
pro-Moscow slant
May 6, 2015
International sympathy for Ukraine
May 5, 2015
Holy Synod of RPTs holds one-day
meeting
May 5, 2015
Petition drive to remove Dvorkin
from expert analysis committee
May 4, 2015
Russian Supreme Court says
Jehovah's Witnesses may worship without notifying
authorities
May 1, 2015
Text of amendments to religion law
proposed to Russian parliament
April 30, 2015
Russian religious and political
leaders gather to rebury cousin of last tsar
April 30, 2015
Russian State Duma adopts
amendments to religion law
April 29, 2015
Report of Ukrainian Orthodox
parishes changing affiliation challenged
April 28, 2015
Jehovah's Witnesses' plan to build
Kingdom Hall in center of town resisted
April 28, 2015
Proposed law makes churches
"foreign agents"
April 28, 2015
Ukrainian Pentecostals concerned
for fellow believers in Russia
April 28, 2015
Conflicting accounts of reason for
transfer of jurisdiction by Ukrainian Orthodox parish
April 28, 2015
Ukrainian Orthodox Church (MP)
takes case to Council of Europe
April 28, 2015
Smallest Ukrainian Orthodox church
points way to Orthodox unity
April 24, 2015
Jehovah's Witnesses distributing
leaflets classed as picketing
April 23, 2015
Moscow patriarch approves Ukrainian
rebels
April 23, 2015
Arson against Orthodox church near
Kiev
April 22, 2015
Kiev patriarchate presses goal of
church merger
April 22, 2015
Few Baptist churches commandeered
in rebel territory
April 22, 2015
Patriarch Kirill conducts patriotic
liturgy in Moscow
April 21, 2015
Mormon church seized by Ukrainian
rebels
April 21, 2015
Ukrainian parliament moves on
favorable religious legislation
April 21, 2015
Ukrainian Orthodox churches trade
accusations regarding church seizures
April 20, 2015
Mormon teenagers arrested for
missionary work in security-sensitive area
April 17, 2015
Crimean protestants treated like
aliens
April 16, 2015
Four criminal cases against
Jehovah's Witnesses being pursued in Rostov province
April 15, 2015
Russian Baptist propagandist defies
restrictions
April 14, 2015
Crackdown on Jehovah's Witnesses
reaches breakaway Georgian region
April 14, 2015
Ukrainian church leaders talking
about merger of churches
April 13, 2015
Kiev patriarchate receives parishes
from other Orthodox churches
April 12, 2015
Ukrainian and Russian politicians
attend Easter Vigil services
April 12, 2015
Survey depicts Christian population
of Ukraine
April 10, 2015
Greek premier recalls traditional
religious bonds between Russia and Greece
April 10, 2015
Provincial education ministry
surveys effects of religious studies course
April 9, 2015
Russian Jewish minority community
gains recognition
April 9, 2015
Conflict over church building in
western Ukraine simmers
April 9, 2015
Jehovah's Witnesses congregation
may be closed for evangelistic tracts
April 8, 2015
Ukrainian parliament moves toward
tax privileges for religious organizations
April 7, 2015
Muslim cleric punished for
extremism
April 7, 2015
Orthodox church near Kiev damaged
by unidentified men
April 6, 2015
Putin signs law amending religion
law
April 6, 2015
Moscow patriarchate stirs up
property clashes in Ukraine
April 2, 2015
Culture minister stands by
censorship of opera
April 2, 2015
Crimean religious organizations
slow to register under Russian law
April 1, 2015
Trial of 16 Jehovah's Witnesses
drags on
April 1, 2015
Jehovah's Witnesses harassed while
witnessing
April 1, 2015
Orthodox church attacked in Donetsk
province
March 30, 2015
Church triumphs over opera
March 30, 2015
Russian anti-sectarian crusaders
suffer loss of leverage
March 27, 2015
Propaganda war between Kiev
patriarch and Russia media
March 27, 2015
Catholics and Orthodox compete for
Ukrainian village church
March 26, 2015
Patriarch of Moscow proposes
teaching religion in schools in eight grades
March 25, 2015
Kremlin official says church should
not use legal system to settle dispute with opera
March 25, 2015
Russian evangelical leader
disillusioned with President Putin
March 24, 2015
Mormons accused of being American
spies
March 24, 2015
Baptists in rebel republic get
their church back
March 24, 2015
Controversy over church's objection
to opera is not going away
March 23, 2015
Brawl in west Ukraine over seized
church
March 23, 2015
Russia hosts European extreme right
March 23, 2015
Sociological survey finds high
trust for Ukrainian churches
March 22, 2015
World Council of Churches wants to
help Ukraine
March 20, 2015
Church not satisfied with changes
in controversial opera
March 20, 2015
Moscow patriarch repeats Russian
messianic view
March 19, 2015
Russian culture ministry threatens
controversial opera
March 19, 2015
Ukrainian parliament looks to
reverse Kiev city soviet's punishment of Orthodox Church
March 19, 2015
Ecumenical agreement on dislike of
modernized opera
March 17, 2015
Ukrainian news service faults
reporting by Kiev church
March 17, 2015
Ecumenical Christian leaders tilt
toward Ukraine by visit
March 17, 2015
Moscow patriarch repeats Russian
imperialistic message
March 16, 2015
Conservative anti-soviet
dissident writer dies
March 15, 2015
Ukrainian clergy tilts to Russian
occupiers
March 14, 2015
Russian Muslim leaders feel
neglected in nationalistic surge
March 13, 2015
Siberian prosecutor not letting go
of alleged blasphemy case
March 13, 2015
Kiev's punishment of Orthodox
Church takes effect
March 13, 2015
Ukrainian church tries to amend the
record on Crimea
March 12, 2015
Russian Pentecostals befriend
Ukrainian rebels
March 12, 2015
Moscow church denies claims of
capitulation to Russia
March 11, 2015
Ukrainian news service keeps
question of Crimean dioceses open
March 11, 2015
Ukrainian lawmaker speculates about
Russia's "Orthodox card"
March 11, 2015
Kremlin spokesman cites offense
against Orthodox church in Ukraine
March 10, 2015
Court-ordered analysis clears opera
of alleged blasphemy
March 10, 2015
Moscow Ukrainian church denies
surrender to Russia
March 8, 2015
Moscow reports another church
attack in Ukraine
March 6, 2015
North American Ukrainian Orthodox
leaders consult
March 6, 2015
Statistics testify to increase in
religious organizations in post-soviet Russia
March 5, 2015
Moscow patriarchate contends with
zeal of provincial clergy against classical art
March 5, 2015
Ukrainian rebels seize Baptist
house of worship
March 5, 2015
Court in Krasnodar dissolves
Jehovah's Witnesses congregation
March 4, 2015
Jehovah's Witnesses in Ukrainian
war zone deprived of houses of worship
March 4, 2015
Explosives found in Ukrainian
synagogue
March 4, 2015
UPTsMP claims Ukrainian radicals
targeted church
March 2, 2015
Ukrainian Catholic leader talks
with Poroshenko about pope's possible visit
March 1, 2015
Right of Ukrainian Jehovah's
Witness as conscientious objector recognized
February 27, 2015
Late head of Ukrainian Orthodox
community replaced
February 27, 2015
2000 Crimean religious
organizations face imminent elimination
February 25, 2015
Patriarch Filaret uses death of
counterpart to call for unity
February 25, 2015
Pope deals with Ukrainian Catholics
in war
February 24, 2015
Ukrainian president favors Kiev
Orthodox patriarchate
February 23, 2015
Debate over teaching religion in
Russia heats up
February 22, 2015
Mormons who fixed safety problems
should not have been kept from meeting
February 20, 2015
Constantinople patriarchate sends
message to Ukrainian president
February 20, 2015
St. Petersburg legislator calls for
investigation of Scientology
February 19, 2015
Proposed laws on religion reviewed
in presidential administration
February 18, 2015
Ukraine eliminates censorship
agency
February 18, 2015
Greek Catholics seek support from
Rome for Ukraine
February 18, 2015
Ukrainian separatists mistreat
military cleric
February 18, 2015
Local laws prepared for regulating
evangelistic preaching
February 17, 2015
Pro-Kremlin youth demonstrate
against Mormons
February 17, 2015
Ukrainian religious leaders state
concerns to head of state
February 17, 2015
Loyalty of Ukrainian church
questioned
February 16, 2015
Crimean Pentecostals abetting
annexation
February 16, 2015
Moscow claims church seizures in
Ukraine violate ceasefire
February 15, 2015
Apocalyptic Orthodox cleric subject
of criminal case
February 15, 2015
Nationalist militants pressure
Orthodox to join Kiev patriarchate
February 13, 2015
Pentecostals persecuted in
Ukrainian rebel areas
February 13, 2015
Muslim leadership and Putin differ
on Supreme Court's decision
February 12, 2015
Russian Supreme Court confirms
right of local government to ban religious clothing
February 11, 2015
Another church in Rovno switches
jurisdictions
February 11, 2015
Moscow charges American spies
working inside Orthodox church
February 10, 2015
Both sides seeking international
support in alleged persecution in Ukraine
February 9, 2015
Ukrainian official disputes Moscow
patriarch's charge
February 9, 2015
Harassment of Mormons in Saratov
due to US sanctions on Russia
February 5, 2015
Provincial governor accuses Russian
Lutherans of being foreign agents
February 5, 2015
Christian churches call for general
participation in war effort
February 5, 2015
Russian Bishops' Conference
expresses concern for Ukraine
February 4, 2015
Ukrainian Orthodox parish transfers
from Moscow to Kiev patriarchates
February 4, 2015
Ukrainian scholar mocks Moscow
patriarch's alarm
February 4, 2015
Orthodox Ukrainian leader in USA to
request weapons
February 4, 2015
Pentecostal leader content with
Russian policy
February 4, 2015
Russian parliament to get legal
crackdown on religious organizations
February 3, 2015
Another conflict over Orthodox
building in Ukraine
February 3, 2015
Moscow church head claims
opponents' actions have intensified
February 3, 2015
Moscow patriarch criticizes Greek
Catholics but courts Roman Catholics
February 3, 2015
Moscow Orthodox leader complains
about Ukrainian conditions
February 2, 2015
Belarus objects to Polish Catholic
priests
February 2, 2015
Soup kitchen in cathedral in war
zone shut down
February 2, 2015
Kiev council's punishment of
Orthodox church illegal
February 2, 2015
Ukrainian rebels act in favor of
Moscow Orthodoxy
January 29, 2015
Kiev lawmakers punish
Moscow-oriented church
January 28, 2015
Moscow patriarchate claims attacks
on Ukrainian churches
January 27 2015
Churches respond to renewed armed
conflict in Donbass
January 25, 2015
Moscow patriarch lectures lower
house of Russian parliament
January 22, 2015
Reports about fighting priest a
hoax
January 22, 2015
Roman Catholic parishes in Crimea
adapting to new conditions
January 22, 2015
Controversial film gets nod from
bishop of where it was made
January 21, 2015
Moscow church philanthropists
finance Ukrainian rebels
January 21, 2015
St. Petersburg priest challenges
rules against combat activity
January 20, 2015
Interview: Actor in "Leviathan"
January 19, 2015
Film depicting Russian church-state
collaboration under attack
January 19, 2015
Moscow rally against cartoons lacks
support of religious leaders
January 19, 2015
Heads of Ukrainian churches speak
out against terrorism
January 18, 2015
Demonstrations
against Charlie Hebdo planned for several Russian
cities
January 17, 2015
Actions
against offensive publications in Russia
January 16, 2015
Internationally acclaimed Russian
film upsets Orthodox activists
January 15, 2015
Moscow Muslim leaders want Charlie
Hebdo banned in Russia
January 15, 2015
Moscow religious spokesmen refuse
to support free speech for French "Charlie"
January 14, 2015
Mine
explosion in Anti-Terrorism Operation hits priest
January 14, 2015
Document: Patriarch Filaret
denounces terrorism of pro-Russian rebels
January 13, 2015
Diverse confessions unite against
damage to mosque
January 13, 2015
Latvian
Orthodox refute official's charge of Moscow's
influence
January 13, 2015
Latvian
official sees role of Moscow patriarchate in Russian
foreign policy
January 12, 2015
Ukrainian Orthodox take church
building dispute to court
January 12, 2015
Vandals attack Moscow mosque
January 12, 2015
Ukrainian
government leaders meet with regional leaders of
religious communities
January 11, 2015
Moscow patriarch regrets division
of Ukraine
January 9, 2015
Kiev patriarchate building
destroyed by fire
January 9, 2015
Moscow patriarch cites historical
importance of Crimea
January 7, 2015
Russian president attends rural
church on Christmas Eve
January 7, 2015
Poroshenko
marks Christmas in monastery of Kiev patriarchate
January 7, 2015
Long Interview: Orthodox metropolitan describes
ministry in battle zone
January 6, 2015
Ukrainian Christians observe
Christmas in a state of civil war
January 6, 2015
Apostolic
Orthodox Church aims to make Gleb Yakunin a saint
January 3, 2015
Summary of Ukrainian evangelicals
persecuted by Donetsk rebels
January 2, 2015
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