A prominent Ukrainian church leader who previously said the Covid-19 pandemic was "God's punishment" for same-sex marriage has tested positive for the virus. Patriarch Filaret, head of the Ukrainian ...

Pope Francis delivers his the Angelus prayer from the window overlooking St Peter's square in the Vatican. Vatican Media/IPA via ZUMA Press/dpa Pope Francis has criticized Ukraine's ban on the country ...

The meeting will seek to realise a landmark decision by Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I to recognise Ukraine's independence from the Russian Orthodox Church. The ruling in October ...

… the law does not pertain to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, the church to which the majority of Ukrainian Christians belong. Claims that Ukraine banned the Orthodox Church entirely or that it ...

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — The head of Ukraine’s Orthodox Church has died at 78 after leading it for more than two decades during the tumultuous post-Soviet period. Metropolitan Volodymyr, who had been ...

Joyce Hanz Monday, Feb. 26, 2024 7:01 a.m. | Monday, Feb. 26, 2024 7:01 a.m. The closing of a Ukrainian church serving the Arnold community for almost 100 years has left many former parishioners and ...

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk spoke with EWTN at the Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine of the Holy Family in Washington, D.C. Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv-Galicia is primate of ...

During three days of solemn religious ceremonies, rock concerts and political brinkmanship in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, the power struggle was not resolved. Both sides declared victory, as ...

In 2018, after the Unification Council in Kiev, the so-called Orthodox Church of Ukraine was created from two schismatic organizations, which later received autocephaly from Ecumenical Patriarch ...

In an exclusive interview with EWTN News, Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, spoke of the continued need for humanitarian aid in his country and ...