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Ukrainian parliament is offered to institutionalize "dual" registration of religious organizations
Friday, 18 May 2012 20:13
KYIV – The draft-law № 10221 of the representative of President in Parliament Yuriy Miroshnychenko (Party of Regions) provides for amendments to the registration articles of the Law of Ukraine "On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Organizations".
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Ukrainian and Jewish communities of New York received delegation of Ukrainian Council of Churches (PHOTO)
Thursday, 10 May 2012 01:08
NEW YORK – After the meetings in Washington the leaders of Ukrainian denominations arrived to New York, where they met with leaders of Jewish communities in the United States at the invitation of President of the World Jewish Congress Ronald Lauder.
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Delegation of Ukrainian Council of Churches visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington (PHOTO)
Wednesday, 09 May 2012 15:07
WASHINGTON – The official activity of the delegation of Ukrainian Council of Churches and religious organizations in the United States started with a visit to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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Leaders of Ukrainian denominations met with high-ranking officials of the U.S. Department of State (PHOTO)
Sunday, 06 May 2012 23:15
WASHINGTON – A delegation of the Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations met with Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Thomas O. Melia in Washington on April 26.
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Parliament of Canada adopted a statement on honoring Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky
Friday, 27 April 2012 13:34

OTTAWA – The House of Commons of Canada has unanimously adopted a statement about reverence for the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky’s heritage on April 24.
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Statement of the Parliament of Canada on honoring Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky
The Parliament of Canada is united in expressing their recognition of Andrey Sheptytsky's courageous actions, compassion for his oppressed Jewish Ukrainian countrymen, and enduring example of commitment to fundamental human rights as humankind's highest obligation.
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Oleksandr ZAIETS. Overview of church-state relations in Ukraine in 2011
The year 2011 in Ukraine was rich in events in the area of church-state relations. In the development of relations between the state and the denominations, this year was dynamic, complex, somewhat contradictory, but ultimately positive.
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Maksym VASIN. Ukraine is a promoter of interreligious mutual understanding on the international scene
Ukraine has much to be proud and knows how to present itself in the world. In addition to the high level of freedom of religion our state can become a promoter of interdenominational understanding through the dialogue.
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Wilfried MARTENS, President of the EPP. Dialogue of European Christian Democrats with the Churches of Ukraine
Keynote Speech by the President of the European People's Party (EPP), Dr. Wilfried Martens, during the interconfessional round-table meeting in Kyiv on 15 September 2011, dedicated to the further development of a dialogue between EPP and the Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations.
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Oleksandr ZAIETS. Patriarch Kyrylo’s (the head of the Russian Orthodox Church) visit aftermath

The public attention to the visits of the head of Russian Orthodox Church to Ukraine tends to decrease with each year. To a certain extent, it is due to the fact that the more frequent visits of Patriarch Kyrylo are losing their exclusiveness, become ordinary, have an ideological background unacceptable for the vast majority of Ukrainians.

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