unity essays

1 min read 2022-06-01 09:39:52

Ukraine’s oldest Orthodox Church seeks independence, while the Lavra monastery is at risk

Source: Get Religion by Terry Mattingly This was a very important weekend in the history of Eastern Orthodox Christianity in Ukraine and Russia —

5 min read 2022-05-31 09:08:02

Source: Christianity Today Possible manufacture of holy oil a signal of declaration of independence from Moscow patriarchate, while still opposing

8 min read 2022-05-23 00:06:01

Source: The New York Times Patriarch Kirill I has provided spiritual cover for the invasion of Ukraine, reaping vast resources for his church in

1 min read 2022-05-15 09:51:38

Source: Eurasia Review By Paul Goble Despite its efforts to position itself as a Ukrainian church rather than a church of the country that is

5 min read 2022-05-14 10:02:52

Source: Public Orthodoxy by Paul L. Gavrilyuk In Mariupol, Russian rockets destroy a maternity ward, wounding dozens. Meanwhile, in Moscow,

4 min read 2022-05-12 07:16:06

Source: Public Orthodoxy by Rev. Dr. John Chryssavgis Image: Orthodox World Council of Churches pre-assembly meeting (Russian Orthodox Church

9 min read 2022-05-11 09:56:38

Source: NPR by Odette Yousef Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a Christmas liturgy at the Transfiguration Cathedral in St. Petersburg early on

1 min read 2022-04-30 10:48:12

PRESS RELEASE The Orthodox Christian Laity (OCL) denounces the horrific and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine by the Russian military under the orders

3 min read 2022-04-30 07:42:13

Source: Christian Post Eastern Orthodox Primates gathered in Crete to prepare for the pan-Orthodox Council, June 17, 2016. | GOA/DIMITRIOS PANAGOS.

3 min read 2022-04-28 08:25:21

Source: The National Herald By Theodore Kalmoukos His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America on his enthronement on June 22, 2019.(Photo by TNH/

2 min read 2022-04-26 08:55:16

Source: The National Herald By Theodore Kalmoukos His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America. Photo TNH/Archive/Zafiris Haitidis BOSTON – The

2 min read 2022-04-20 02:51:05

Source: The Pillar JD Flynn Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and Metropolitan Onufriy, Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate,

3 min read 2022-04-20 02:35:07

Source: Religion News Service The letter to the Russian patriarch comes amid calls to expel him and the Russian Orthodox Church from the

3 min read 2022-04-19 23:53:22

Source: The Washington Post By Ishaan Tharoor Patriarch Kirill of Moscow In October 2015, Russia’s newly launched military intervention in

5 min read 2022-04-18 23:44:13

Source: The Washington Post Patriarch Kirill has angered many priests by echoing the language Vladimir Putin uses to justify the Ukraine