Religious Information Service of Ukraine

09/12/2025

From 1-3 December, 2025, about 90 church leaders, representatives of Churches and National Councils of Churches, ecumenical partners, and scholars gathered in Helsinki, Finland, for a conference on ‘Resisting Empire, Promoting Peace. Churches Confront the Russian World Ideology’, organised by the Conference of European Churches in collaboration with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland and the Orthodox Church of Finland. 👇

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08/12/2025

The Holy See remains committed to working towards the safe return of Ukrainian children and prisoners of war to their families.

The Holy See remains committed to working towards the safe return of Ukrainian children and prisoners of war to their families. - RISU

08/12/2025

President Volodymyr Zelensky, heads of churches and religious organizations, military chaplains, defenders of Ukraine, and foreign guests participated in the second Military Prayer Breakfast on December 6, marking the Day of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

President Volodymyr Zelensky, heads of churches and religious organizations, military chaplains, defenders of Ukraine, and foreign guests participated in the second Military Prayer Breakfast on December 6, marking the Day of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. - RISU

03/12/2025

Review of Roman Skakun’s book “The NKVD–MGB–KGB Agent Network within the Orthodox Episcopate of Ukraine (1939–1964): Formation, Functions, Models of Behavior” (Lviv: Ukrainian Catholic University Press, 2025. 360 pages)

Review of Roman Skakun’s book “The NKVD–MGB–KGB Agent Network within the Orthodox Episcopate of Ukraine (1939–1964): Formation, Functions, Models of Behavior” (Lviv: Ukrainian Catholic University Press, 2025. 360 pages) - RISU

02/12/2025

From 14 to 16 November 2025, the 50th anniversary celebration of EKV (Europäischer Kartellverband) – the European Federation of Christian Student Associations, which includes the Ukrainian Catholic Student Association “Obnova,” took place in Salzburg. The festivities concluded with a Ukrainian Breakfast.

From 14 to 16 November 2025, the 50th anniversary celebration of EKV (Europäischer Kartellverband) – the European Federation of Christian Student Associations, which includes the Ukrainian Catholic Student Association “Obnova,” took place in Salzburg. The festivities concluded with a Ukrainia...

01/12/2025

The Church of Sweden🇸🇪 has sent a warning to its parishes recommending that they no longer invite nuns from the Holy Elizabeth Convent in Minsk.
The warning states, in particular, that the convent's income is being used to support the Russian👿 invasion of Ukraine and that they have close ties to the Russian military intelligence service, the GRU.

The Church of Sweden has sent a warning to its parishes recommending that they no longer invite nuns from the Holy Elizabeth Convent in Minsk. The warning states, in particular, that the convent's income is being used to support the Russian invasion of Ukraine and that they have close ties to the Ru...

30/11/2025

The Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations (UCCRO) issued a statement today regarding the recent Russian terrorist🇷🇺👿 attack on Ukrainian cities. It emphasizes that the Russian Federation is a terrorist state, and supporting it constitutes complicity in terrorism.🙏

The Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations (UCCRO) issued a statement today regarding the recent Russian terrorist attack on Ukrainian cities. It emphasizes that the Russian Federation is a terrorist state, and supporting it constitutes complicity in terrorism. - RISU

21/11/2025

Among other aspects, the Russian-American "peace plan" includes the declaration of Russian as an official language in Ukraine and the resumption of activities of the Russian Orthodox Church in the territories controlled by Kyiv. 😡

Among other aspects, the Russian-American "peace plan" includes the declaration of Russian as an official language in Ukraine and the resumption of activities of the Russian Orthodox Church in the territories controlled by Kyiv. - RISU

20/11/2025

"I read with deep concern the report that a delegation tied to the Russian Orthodox Church, an institution widely documented as a tool of the Kremlin, is meeting with U.S. officials here in Washington," stated pastor Mark Burns.

"I read with deep concern the report that a delegation tied to the Russian Orthodox Church, an institution widely documented as a tool of the Kremlin, is meeting with U.S. officials here in Washington," stated pastor Mark Burns. - RISU

17/11/2025

Daily events and reports about them on social media, working meetings, consultations, cultural events, and more. And also participation in liturgical services — something that distinguishes the work of an ambassador to the Apostolic See from that of other diplomats. What the work of Ukraine’s ambassador to the Vatican looks like, what has been accomplished and what has not, why Russian propaganda found its way into the speeches of Pope Francis and other church-related figures — these and many other topics are discussed in a conversation with Andrii Yurash, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Holy See and to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

Daily events and reports about them on social media, working meetings, consultations, cultural events, and more. And also participation in liturgical services — something that distinguishes the work of an ambassador to the Apostolic See from that of other diplomats. What the work of Ukraine’s am...

18/10/2025

"When I was a rookie Vaticanologist in the early 1990s, extensive conversations with the leaders of what was then the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity made me aware of a strategic concept that had become bureaucratically embedded in both the ecumenism shop and the Vatican “foreign ministry,” the Second Section of the Secretariat of State. That concept began to form in the mid-1960s and might be summarized in the phrase, “The road from Rome to Constantinople runs through Moscow.” In other words, the recomposition of Christian unity and the restoration of full communion between the Bishop of Rome and the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople required, as a prerequisite, reconciliation with the Russian Orthodox Church, the largest of the Orthodox churches.
Whatever pragmatic sense that might once have made, “The road from Rome to Constantinople runs through Moscow” is now theologically absurd, because the leadership of the Russian Church has abandoned Christian orthodoxy, as demonstrated by Kirill’s heretical and blasphemous statements over the past three-plus years. Clinging to that strategy has also impeded the moral witness of the Holy See, as seen in the hesitancy (to put it charitably) of the Vatican to name and condemn the aggressor when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022"
- writes George Weigel in his new column on the need to reset relations between the Vatican and the Russian Orthodox Church, taking into account everything that KGB agent Patriarch Kirill does and says.
https://risu.ua/en/russian-reset-required-in-rome_n159612

03/09/2025

We all desire peace, but true peace is always a just peace. Clearly, we will never be satisfied if any part of our people falls back into Russian domination. That would not be just. When we say we are people, not territories, we are emphasizing human rights.

Today, the future of Europe is being decided in Kyiv. This was stated by the Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, His Beatitude Sviatoslav, in the August edition of the program “Open Church” with Fr. Ihor Yatsiv. - RISU