News

Ukraine’s new law banning religious organizations with ties to the Russian Orthodox Church is overly broad and could have far-reaching consequences for Ukrainians’ right to religious freedom.
The Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations, which represents the various Christian, Jewish and Muslim ...
Ukraine's Orthodox Church split from its Russian parent when Vladimir Putin first invaded Ukraine eight years ago. And now religion's role in the conflict is front and center. Here is Nick Schifrin.
In Ukraine, a 71 year old artist who's too old to serve in the military is making his contribution to the war effort by ...
Certainly, Ukraine and Russia share a religious heritage dating back to the 10th century when the kingdom of Kievan Rus adopted Christianity as the state religion.
FILE - People pray next to the body of Ukrainian Army captain Anton Sydorov, 35, killed in eastern Ukraine, during his funeral in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022.
As of March, almost 570 Ukrainian religious buildings have come under fire, Nikiforov said. Roughly one-fourth of these have been destroyed or damaged beyond repair, ...
If Ukraine is truly committed to human rights, it must uphold its freedom of religion by William W. Burke-White, opinion contributor - 10/19/23 1:00 PM ET ...
Ukrainian families in the United States are profoundly worried about their relatives as well as Ukraine itself. Advertisement Communication, however, has been difficult or blocked.
Away from the frontlines, Ukraine is waging a different battle against Russia as it seeks to remove Moscow’s influence from religious institutions. President Volodymyr Zelensky signed into law a ...
Putin’s Ukraine scheme included leveraging the potential religious soft power of the Moscow-aligned Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate.According to the Orthodox Times, Russia used ...
Modern Ukraine was invented by the Bolsheviks, Putin said, and should never have become independent of Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Putin put his tirade in religious as well as ...