3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (245+ words) Representatives of the UGCC presented Pope Leo XIV with a traditional Ukrainian embroidered shirt (vyshyvanka – Ed.) featuring a map of all regions of Ukraine. The meeting took place at the Vatican at the end of the Pope’s general audience. The…...

4+ day, 8+ min ago   (300+ words) Greek theologian Michail Maroudis expressed his support for the brotherhood of the Holy Dormition Sviatohirsk Lavra following the killing of Monk Varsonofiy and the wounding of two novices. The Greek edition of the UOJ published a statement by the graduate…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (245+ words) During a “liturgy” at the Church of the Conception of St. Anna, OCU representatives played a recorded choir track. A controversy erupted online over the OCU’s use of a recording during a “service.” On August 30, 2026, representatives of Dumenko’s structure held…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (228+ words) The service with the rite of burial of the Shroud of the Most Holy Theotokos was performed at the church in honor of Venerable Agapitus of the Caves. On the feast day of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos,…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (209+ words) Archimandrite Nikanor (Mishkov) of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, who received a temporary suspension from ministry for concelebrating with the OCU, has hired secular lawyers to sue Bulgarian Patriarch Daniel. The cleric is attempting to contest the Patriarch's decision and block…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (275+ words) A Catholic bishop named secularization as the cause of moral erosion. German RCC bishop Stefan Oster stated that the decline of belief in God has provoked a rise in the number of LGBT supporters. In the Catholic bishop's view, the…...

3+ week, 4+ hour ago   (302+ words) On August 23, 2026, in Prizren, a vandal damaged two entrance doors and the exterior lighting of the Church of the Holy Savior of the Serbian Orthodox Church, reports the UOJ in Serbia. After the attack, the man was detained by Kosovo…...

3+ week, 22+ hour ago   (333+ words) OCU cleric OCU Roman Hryshchuk accused Pope Leo of acting in Russia's interests and called on Ukrainian Greek Catholics to stop criticizing the structure of Epifaniy Dumenko. Hryshchuk published a post on his Facebook page following a dispute surrounding the…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (199+ words) The European Commission has appointed a new special envoy on promoting freedom of religion. The European Union has demanded an end to the persecution of religious communities worldwide. The diplomatic body of Brussels timed its statement to coincide with the…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (418+ words) The Moscow Theological Academy has held the defense of a doctoral dissertation by Hegumen Dionysius (Shlenov), abbot of Moscow’s St. Andrew Stavropegial Monastery and head of the Academy’s postgraduate program. The dissertation is titled “In Defense of the Conciliar Structure…...