Thousands rally in Kiev to protest autonomy plan for eastern Ukraine
Kiev, UkraineReuters Thousands of people gathered in Kiev’s main square on Sunday to protest against President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s deal with Moscow to grant autonomy to Ukraine’s pro-Russian rebel-held east as part of efforts to end a five-year conflict there. In the first breakthrough towards a possible peace deal in years, envoys from Moscow and Kiev […]
Rome synod aims to bolster identity of Ukrainian Greek Catholics amid conflict
Vatican CityRNS Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church are meeting at the Vatican for a synod aimed at strengthening the Byzantine Rite church’s ties with Rome while maintaining its identity in the ongoing tug of war between East and West. Ukrainian Greek Catholics, who make up the world’s largest Eastern church, are in full […]
Ukraine Baptist church closed by separatists
World Watch Monitor A Baptist church in Ukraine’s south-eastern town of Novoazovsk was forced to close by a separatist group last month, reports Oslo-based news service Forum 18. Novoazovsk is a seaside town in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, eastern Ukraine. The DPR, along with the Luhansk People’s Republic, both backed by Russia, declared independence from Ukraine in […]
Raids on ‘illegal’ worship meetings in rebel-held Ukraine
World Watch Monitor A Pentecostal church in the rebel-held Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine was raided by armed men on 6th August, the latest in a series of raids on religious communities, reports Oslo-based news service Forum 18. The raid took place during a worship meeting at the Grace Church of God Pentecostal church in Alchevsk. […]
ORTHODOX CHURCH: UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX SWITCH ALLEGIANCE FROM MOSCOW TO KIEV-LINKED CHURCHES
OLGA RUDENKO, of Religion News Service, reports…