... based in countries recognized as having committed armed aggression against Ukraine. This creates legal grounds to prosecute and dissolve parishes and dioceses of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate solely because of their canonical communion with the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), even though the Council of the UOC proclaimed the “full autonomy and independence of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church” on May 27, 2022. The law does not directly mandate the dissolution of the UOC, but only because it does ...
... religious freedom during several recent decades, strangely keep silent at a time when the rights of Orthodox believers in Ukraine are trampled underfoot. The government agencies lack sufficient resolve to condemn Kiev’s religious policy. Finally, when Russia raises this issue at the UN Security Council, referring to the UN Charter and expressing concern over the problems faced by its Christian Orthodox brethren, whose rights are violated, other Security Council members insist that whatever is transpiring ...
... subtleties of canon law, the history of intra-Orthodox relations and discussions of the psychological profiles of the church hierarchs. As a rule, they consider the situation in a rather limited political context, assessing its consequences either for Russia–Ukraine relations or for Russia’s relations with the West.
At the same time, the problem of autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is far broader than the question of the future of Orthodoxy in a particular country or its relations with ...
A second meeting between Pope Francis and Vladimir Putin will take place on 10 June in Rome on the occasion of the Russian President
’s visit to the Milan World Exposition — Expo 2015. There is no doubt that Putin’s trip to Italy has the primary objective of reaffirming the relevance of Russian-Italian relations under the circumstances of the current ...
