(RNS) Draft law 8371, which requires another vote before moving to the president’s desk, would give Ukrainian authorities power to examine the connection of religious groups in Ukraine to the Russian Federation and to ban those whose leadership is outside of Ukraine.
(RNS) The Orthodox Church of Ukraine has further cemented its split from the Russian counterpart it used to be a part of by adopting a new liturgical calendar.
By Marcel Gascon Kyiv, Apr 16 (EFE).- Thousands of faithful heard the Orthodox Easter service in Kyiv’s iconic Lavra Cathedral in the Ukrainian language for the first time in history on Sunday, despite the Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s links to Moscow. “The Moscow Patriarchate had occupied the Lavra,” parishioner Mykhailo Yujimovich, an 80-year-old retired mechanical engineer …
This month, the Ukrainian government issued an eviction notice to clergy at Pecherska Lavra, where some Orthodox Christians may still have close ties with Russia.
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