But Mr Shterin, who lectures on trends in ex-Soviet republics, says some Moscow-linked parishes will probably switch to a new Kiev-led church, because many congregations "don't vary a lot in their ...

On Oct. 16, 1978, the cardinal electors of the Roman Catholic Church elected Polish Cardinal ... Wojtyla was the beginning of the end of the Soviet empire. Weigel notes that one person who did ...

is even more sophisticated than the persecution of the church in Soviet times, so it can be very difficult for Ukrainian believers to make the right choice, Archimandrite Ioann (Sukhina), vicar of ...

Malaysian Journal of Syariah and Law, Vol. 12, Issue. 2, p. 375. Church-state relations have undergone a number of changes during the seven decades of the existence of the Soviet Union. In the 1920s ...

Orthodoxy in Ukraine was subordinate to the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church, as Ukraine itself was subjected to Russian suzerainty (sometimes under the guise of Soviet ...

But tensions within the Church mounted after Ukraine became independent in 1991, with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Before the council held in Kiev in December where the split was announced ...