Churches across Ukraine are urging Christians worldwide to join a “Day of Prayer for Ukraine” on Aug. 24, coinciding with the country’s 34th Independence Day. The Ukrainian Council of Churches and ...

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 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 ...

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk spoke with EWTN at the Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine of the Holy Family in Washington, D.C. Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv-Galicia is primate of ...

The 23 Eastern Catholic Churches all share one Code of Canon Law, separate from that of the Latin Church, Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk explained. Pope Francis embraces Major Archbishop ...

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 ...

One generation of Soviet refugees is welcoming another. Sergei Karpenko’s Chicago church is now almost entirely made up of refugees from the Russian war against Ukraine. Many of them aren’t from a ...

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.

In 2018, after the Unification Council in Kiev, the so-called Orthodox Church of Ukraine was created from two schismatic organizations, which later received autocephaly from Ecumenical Patriarch ...

MOSCOW, April 11. /TASS/. Authorities in Kiev said on Tuesday that Easter services would go virtual on Sunday. "[Easter] services at churches will be conducted online amid the curfew from midnight to ...

There were frightening moments during a Good Friday church service in South Troy. Members of St. Nicholas Ukrainian Orthodox Church at 3rd and Monroe streets were celebrating around 10 a.m., when ...