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Conference in Odessa Deals with Role of Catholic Church in Formation of Ukrainian Intelligentsia
03.11.2008 08:23
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Odessa—On 30 October, a scholarly-practical conference “Ukraine and the Vatican in the Development of Higher Education” was held in The Christian Humanitarian and Economic University in Odessa. In particular, a report by Yurii Reshetnikov a candidate of Philosophic Sciences, dealt with the question of interaction of the Church with the state in the area of education in the context of harmonization of state-church relations. He described the legal basis of the law in place in the questions of religious education and noted that today, the rights of believers to education are very impaired as compared to other categories of citizens. Y. Reshetnikov informed the audience about deputies’ initiatives to remedy the situation. Y. Reshetnikov described the decision of the education minister, I. Vakarchuk to support a number of alterations to the law, as positive and instrumental in changing the situation. The minister announced this at the session of the extended collegium of the Ministry of Education with the participation of representatives from the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations on 26 June of this year.
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Automobile Religious Procession Conducted in Ukraine
03.11.2008 08:23
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Lviv—An automobile religious procession around Ukraine with an icon of the Mother of God was launched in Lviv. The unusual procession is organized by the All-Ukrainian Brotherhood of Oleksandr Nevskyi with the blessing of the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Volodymyr.
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Klychko’s Faction in Kyiv City Council Demands to Untenant Embassy of God Church from Track and Field Complex
03.11.2008 08:22
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Kyiv—The faction of Vitalii Klychko’s block in the Kyiv City Council asks deputies to return the track and field riding-school (manege) in Berezniaky district to sportsmen thereby breaking the agreement on the rent of the major part of the complex with the religious community Embassy of God. The statement was voiced on 30 October by the block leader, Vitalii Klychko at the session of the Kyiv City Council.
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Orthodox Church and Muslims of Crimea Call Not to Celebrate Halloween
03.11.2008 08:22
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Simferopol—Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate calls Crimean residents not to celebrate Halloween, a festival celebrated widely in the West on the eve of November 1st, which has recently enjoyed popularity among youth of post-Soviet places, particularly in Ukraine. For instance, in the Crimea, they actively call young people to celebrate Halloween at various “parties.” Announcements of the events are posted by official sites of a number of Crimean cities. “Bloody competitions, beastly prizes, blood-cooling music…Special present for the most terrible costume!” says, for instance, an offer of one of Yalta’s hotels, posted at the city’s internet portal.
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Bishop Hlib Lonchyna Visits Incarnate Word Community in Ivano-Frankivsk
03.11.2008 04:16
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On Friday October 25, 2008, Bishop Hlib (Lonchyna), head of the Department of Church Commissions and Responsible for Monastic Matters of the Patriarchal Curia of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, visited monastic houses of the Incarnate Word in the Ivano-Frankivs’k Eparchy. The visit started with a visit to the house of the sisters in Burshtyn, where presently a community of sisters resides, among whom is Provincial Mother Superior Sister Maria Sliz Farina.
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International conference Collegiality, Synodality and Community Held
03.11.2008 04:16
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The theme of collegiality occupies an important place in modern Christian theology. Recently it became a point at the issue of the Mixed International Commission on Dialogue between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches. Considering this from October 23 to 27, theologians of the Orthodox and the Catholic Churches met in one of the best known centers in world Christianity, the monastery of the brothers of Bose (Monastero di Bose, Italy), to discuss the following questions: • The idea of ecumenism in the documents of the Second Vatican Council; • The place of collegiality in Eastern theology; • Collegiality and the development of ecumenical dialogue; • Collegiality and synodality in the context of different cultures.
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Meeting of UGCC Youth Held in Argentina
03.11.2008 04:16
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On Sunday, October 26, the 19th meeting of youth of the Eparchy of the Holy Protection in Argentina took place. Despite strong rain and a tropical storm, 350 persons arrived at the Parish of Saint Volodymyr in Posadas, Misiones. Registration of the participants began in the morning, and after breakfast the youth glorified God with singing. After the greeting with bread and salt and a short performance of the youth organization Youth for Christ from Posadas, Father Pastor Jose Hazuda led a prayer, greeted the participants, and gave a blessing to all, and so the meeting officially opened.
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