Month: February 15, 2019 9:32 am

The regime Vladimir Putin has created in Russia is an “existential” enemy of the West and an international system intended to limit the use of violence by one state against others, commentator Aleksandr Skobov, a historian, says. Thus, Mr. Putin’s aggression against Ukraine is far more than an attack on that country – it is an attack on the West as such.

Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov says Moscow will not recognize the Donbas republics because to do so would be “to lose all the rest of Ukraine and leave it to the Nazis” – a clear indication from “Putin’s Ribbentrop” that the Kremlin wants to control all of Ukraine and not just part of it, Vitaly Portnikov says.

The creation of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) …is a seismic event in world Christian history that could also have significant geopolitical repercussions. …

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During the Christmas holidays of 2018-2019, the United Ukrainian Relief Committee (UUARC), with the help of St. Nicholas, delivered Christmas presents to 1,240 children in Ukraine. These were the children of refugees, children without permanent shelters, children of soldiers who died or were wounded, and children of servicemen and contractors who served and are still serving in the east. The children received sweets, hygiene products, socks, gloves, blouses, shirts and other clothing items.

A “new Orthodoxy” – isn’t that an oxymoron? The very word, with either an upper-case or a lower-case “o,” connotes conservatism. And Church “Orthodoxy,” which means “right teaching” or “right belief,” suggests dogmatism. Moreover, the Russian Orthodox Church, which is the bearer of the kind of Orthodoxy with which most Ukrainians are familiar, is well-known for its conservative approach to matters both theological and political. 

During the war in Ukraine, conditions for carrying out excavations in Baturyn, Chernihiv Oblast, have remained difficult. Nonetheless, the historical and archaeological research of the town has progressed well in 2017-2018. 

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NORTH PORT, Fla. – The Ukrainian community of Southwest Florida marked the 100th anniversary of Ukraine’s Day of Unity ( January 22, 1919) on January 26 at St. Andrew’s Ukrainian Religious and Cultural Center in North Port, Fla., with a special program. 

SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N.J. – Following the hierarchical divine liturgy celebrated by Archbishop Daniel of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. (UOC-U.S.A.) on Sunday, February 10, nearly 100 parishioners and visitors filled Pokrova Sisterhood Social Hall, adjacent to St. Andrew Memorial Church, to enjoy the soups prepared by the Ukrainian Orthodox League (UOL) chapter of the St. Sophia Ukrainian Orthodox Theological Seminary. The Souper Bowl Sunday event raised nearly $1,600 for soup kitchens in Ukraine, under the patronage of the St. Andrew Society. Other chapters of the UOL held similar events on February 3.

KYIV – Ongoing efforts to overhaul the country’s defective and corrupt health-care system took a serious blow on February 5 when a Kyiv administrative circuit court issued an injunction that barred its chief implementer – Dr. Ulana Suprun – from performing her duties as acting health minister of Ukraine.

KYIV – The new Orthodox Church of Ukraine has installed its first metropolitan, Epifaniy, at a ceremony in Kyiv on February 3, in a process that further establishes the new church body’s independence.

PARSIPPANY, N.J. – A virtual Town Hall meeting, “Ukraine Autocephaly: An Issue So Critical,” was hosted on January 26 by the Order of St. Andrew the Apostle, Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. The meeting was held via conference call, with listeners able to ask questions (written in advance and posed during the call as it happened), and attracted an audience from across North America and likely beyond.