Tithe church: Communists blew it up, nationalists will demolish it?
While in previous years such conflicts affected exclusively remote villages, where two confessions could not divide the only Orthodox temple, now the fire hotbeds break out in the largest cities of Ukraine. And they flare up literally, in the truest sense of the word.
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A well-rehearsed OCU playbook – a staged scene at a soldier’s funeral, and then, days later, a church “transfer” that ends in a takeover.
Bishop and secular justice
Is Metropolitan Tychikos of Paphos entitled to turn to a civil court? Greek presbyter and theologian Anastasios Gotsopoulos analyzes the canons for UOJ in Greece .
Why Lviv residents once defended “Muscovite” Christmas
Today yet another pretext has been invented to destroy Orthodoxy. It is called “not a Ukrainian tradition.” But what actually constitutes tradition in Ukraine?
Why the UOC is not Russian, and its expulsion from churches is unlawful
The authorities have no legal grounds to label the UOC as “Russian.” Therefore, all expulsions of UOC believers from their churches in favor of the OCU constitute a clear violation of their right to freedom of religion.
A diplomatic ultimatum? What was actually said to Epifaniy at the Phanar
Patriarch Bartholomew’s address on January 6, 2026 is the first public warning to Serhiy Dumenko. And, perhaps, the last.
Why the persecution of a Holosiiv Orthodox school is a shot at our future
The Prosecutor General’s Office and the SBU have opened a criminal case against the administration of the Orthodox school at the Holosiiv Monastery in Kyiv. Why this is a fight against the country’s future.