TheWorld Council of Churches (WCC) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) invite the media to celebrate World Children’s day on Wednesday, 21 November at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva.
Nicholas Denysenko is the Emil and Elfriede Jochum University Chair and Professor of Theology at Valparaiso University. He is an ordained deacon of the Orthodox Church in America.
I have many vivid memories from my first visit to Ukraine in 1993, taken with my brother and grandfather. During our stay in Tetiiv (approximately 80 kilometers west of Kyiv), our family hosts asked us to walk with them to the family cemetery.
On 15 November 2018, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, arrived in Cairo on a working visit.
Spokesman for the Kyiv Patriarchate, Archbishop Yevstratiy (Zorya), has said that there is no official date for the Unification Council. Therefore, one should not trust numerous sources that persistently spread the rumors that it is about to happen on this or that day. The Archbishop wrote about this on Facebook.
ΤΗΕ DECISIONS OF THE HOLY COUNCIL OF THE POLISH ORTHODOX CHURCH
On November 15, 2018, under the chairmsnship of His Eminence, the Great Blessed Sava, the Orthodox Metropolitan of Warsaw and Poland, the Holy. Council of Bishops of the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church took place.
Domenica 11 novembre si è tenuto a Bose un incontro a cinquant'anni dall'inizio della vita comunitaria di fratelli e sorelle a Bose, cui hanno partecipato con grande affetto numerosissimi amici e ospiti che accompagnano la comunità, lungo questi anni fino ad oggi.
Il dialogo teologico tra le chiese cattolica e ortodossa non avviene solo a livello ufficiale, attraverso il mandato affidato dalle chiese alla Commissione mista internazionale per il dialogo teologico tra la chiesa cattolica e la chiesa ortodossa, ma anche grazie alla riflessione e agli incontri fraterni di teologi che si sentono impegnati dal vangelo nella ricerca dell’unità.
Per aspera ad astra is exactly the path Ukraine has walked to rightfully get its own Local Orthodox Church. All thorns and hardships on Ukraine’s path were, in fact, “Russian-made.” There have never been any obstacles put forward by the Ecumenical Patriarchate. On the contrary, Patriarch Bartholomew’s actions have played a prominent role in establishing historical justice.
Letter of the Holy Father Francis to the Founder of the Monastery of Bose, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Monastic Community To Dear Father Enzo Bianchi, Founder of the Monastery of Bose
Ψήφισμα της Ιεράς Συνόδου Ιεραρχίας της Ορθοδόξου Εκκλησίας της Ουκρανίας της 13ης Νοεμβρίου 2018
Η Σύνοδος Επισκόπων της Ορθοδόξου Εκκλησίας της Ουκρανίας, η συνελθοῦσα στη Λαύρα της Κοιμήσεως Θεοτόκου των Σπηλαίων του Κιέβου στις 13 Νοεμβρίου 2018, αφού παρακολούθησε την ομιλία του Μακαριωτάτου Μητροπολίτου Κιέβου και πάσης Ουκρανίας κ.κ. Ονουφρίου σχετικά με τις προκλήσεις, τις οποίες αντιμετωπίζει τα τελευταία η Ορθόδοξος Εκκλησία της Ουκρανίας, απεφάσισε:
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew made an appeal to the Ukrainian people on the eve of the 85th anniversary of the Holodomor in Ukraine. Bartholomew also confirmed his decision to grant an autocephaly to the Ukrainian Church.
Επίσημη επίσκεψη στην Εκκλησία της Ελλάδος πραγματοποιεί από σήμερα έως 17 Νοεμβρίου ο Συρορθόδοξος Πατριάρχης Αντιοχείας και πάσης Ανατολής κ. Ιγνάτιος-Εφραίμ Β’.
The heads of the schismatic “Kiev Patriarchate” (KP) and the schismatic “Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church” (UAOC) have both written to Constantinople, acknowledging that they agree not to nominate themselves for the position of head of the new Ukrainian church that Constantinople is creating, a source in the UAOC reported to the Ukrainian site Vesti.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko will meet with the bishops of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church on Tuesday, the Kiev Metropolia reported to RIA-Novosti yesterday.
Ουκρανική εφημερίδα αναφέρει ότι ο Φιλάρετος και ο Μακάριος Μαλετίτς δε θα θέσουν υποψηφιότητα για την ηγεσία της ενοποιημένης τοπικής Εκκλησίας στην Ουκρανία, δεσμευόμενοι με επιστολές προς τον Οικουμενικό Πατριάρχη.
Ουκρανική εφημερίδα αναφέρει ότι ο Φιλάρετος και ο Μακάριος Μαλετίτς δε θα θέσουν υποψηφιότητα για την ηγεσία της ενοποιημένης τοπικής Εκκλησίας στην Ουκρανία, δεσμευόμενοι με επιστολές προς τον Οικουμενικό Πατριάρχη.
If Christianity is to survive as a viable lifestyle attractive to modern men and women, it will not be as an obscurantist, anti-intellectual culture of folklore and ritualism, sustained by the rejection of modernity and change…. – Archimandrite Robert F. Taft, SJ
Στο πλαίσιο ενός ειλικρινούς και εν αγάπη διαλόγου να επιλυθούν τα ζητήματα που προκύπτουν με την αυτοκεφαλία της Εκκλησίας της Ουκρανίας αναφέρει η Αρχιεπισκοπή Κύπρου.
During the working visit to Finland, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko met with Primate of the Finnish Orthodox Church His Eminence Archbishop Leo, the president’s press service reported on Wednesday evening, Ukrinform reports.
On November 7, 2018, the Chancellor of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Varsonofy of St. Petersburg and Ladoga, visited in Nicosia the Archdiocese of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus where he met with His Beatitude Chrysostomos II, Archbishop of New Justiniana and All Cyprus.
More strong words stressing the consequences of the “Orthodox schism” on inter-Orthodox relations were delivered by Metropolitan Hilarion in this second interview with SIR: “The mechanisms of inter-Orthodox dialogue and cooperation, which had been developing for a long time, have been destroyed”
This was a schism created for no other reason than an abuse of power resulting in millions of Orthodox believers paying the price for such politics.” Rev. Dr. John Chryssavgis, Archdeacon of the Ecumenical Throne, shared the “viewpoint” of Constantinople on the Ukrainian issue
Quale rapporto esiste tra sinodalità e primato nell’esperienza degli ortodossi e in quella dei cattolici? Come trovare un’armonia che apra la strada all’unità?
Η εαρινή συνάντηση της Κωνσταντινούπολης μεταξύ Οικουμενικού Πατριάρχη κκ. Βαρθολομαίου και Πατριάρχη Μόσχας κκ. Κυρίλλου επισφράγισε τη διαφωνία πάνω στο ζήτημα της Ουκρανικής Εκκλησίας. Σε καμία όμως περίπτωση, αυτή δεν έπεσε ως κεραυνός εν αιθρία.
Підписана Угода про співробітництво та взаємодію між Україною і Вселенським Константинопольським Патріархатом 3 листопада є документом про підтримку створення єдиної помісної православної церкви в Україні, заявляє Радник Президента України, директор Національного інституту стратегічних досліджень Ростислав Павленко.