Neither states nor churches operate in isolation from the political and ethical fabric of the global community that determines what actions and statements are deemed acceptable
The crisis in relations between the church and the state in Ukraine, centered around the country’s oldest religious institution—the Orthodox Church—has long ceased to be a domestic issue. The crisis has taken on an international dimension, involving both state and religious actors on the global stage. Much ...
... against the UNAOC (the UN Alliance of Civilizations) and the UN at large on account of its selective attitude towards world religions.
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. Today, the false narrative that the early 1920s was not a time of persecution is actively disseminated by Ukrainian ... ... scholars. Cf. “After the Ukrainian People’s Republic was defeated in 1920, comparative religious freedom endured in Soviet Ukraine through the end of the 1920s, after which Stalin’s anti-religious terror developed in full force.” (Druzenko G.
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The Current Situation Demonstrates the Failure of both the Phanar and Moscow Models, and their Revitalization Appears Unlikely
The conflict surrounding the Orthodox church in Ukraine has moved irrevocably beyond the purely intra-ecclesiastical agenda. Experts, political scientists, and journalists have plunged headlong into the subtleties of canon law, the history of intra-Orthodox relations and discussions of the psychological ...
