Onufry’s church in Ukraine has two options: either act by the old playbook or cut ties to Kirill.

Metropolitan Onufry of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (L), Patriarch Kirill of Moscow (R)

Just as we were witnessing the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) mobilising and expanding its influence on the African continent, the recognition by Russian President Putin of Donetsk and Luhansk as “independent states” amid the renewed war against Ukraine brings to the fore the possible ecclesiastical implications of such a decision for the Ukrainian and Russian Churches. The official position of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), according to Fr. Nikolai Danilevich, who is the Deputy Head of the Department for External Church Relations, is that it “considers these territories [Donetsk and Luhansk] and the people who live there to be part of Ukraine.” He says that the “dioceses in the Donbas remain part of the UOC and are managed from Kiev [sic]…”. According to him, the same applies to the situation in Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014. This supportive stance regarding Ukraine’s territorial integrity has been echoed by the Primate of the church Metropolitan Onufry and other high-level bishops from this church over the last couple of days. Read More

He is not here, for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where He lay.
Then go quickly and tell His disciples that He is risen from the dead.
Matthew 28:6-7

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Sunday of Zacchaeus / Sunday of the Canaanite Woman
February 6

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Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee
February 13

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Sunday of the Prodigal Son
February 20

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Sunday of the Last Judgment
(Meatfare Sunday)
February 27

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Sunday of Forgiveness / Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise
(Cheesefare Sunday)
March 6

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Clean Monday
Beginning of Great Lent
March 7

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Sunday of Orthodoxy
March 13

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Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas
March 20

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Annunciation to the Most-Holy Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary
March 25

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Sunday of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross
March 27

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Sunday of St. John of the Ladder
April 3

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Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt
April 10

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Saturday of Lazarus
April 16

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Entrance of Our Lord, God, and Saviour Jesus Christ into Jerusalem
Palm Sunday
April 17

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Great and Holy Friday
April 22

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Great and Holy Sabbath
April 23

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GREAT AND HOLY PASCHA
RESURRECTION OF OUR LORD, GOD, AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST
April 24

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Sunday of St. Thomas
May 1

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Sunday of the Myrrhbearing Women
May 8

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Sunday of the Paralytic
May 15

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Mid-Pentecost
May 18

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Sunday of the Samaritan Woman
May 22

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Sunday of the Blind Man
May 29

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Ascension of Our Lord, God, and Saviour Jesus Christ
June 2

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Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council
June 5

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HOLY PENTECOST
DESCENT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ~ TRINITY SUNDAY
June 12

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Sunday of All Saints
June 19

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Beginning of the Apostles Fast / Peter and Paul Fast
June 20

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Sunday of All Local Saints
June 26

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Feast of SS. Peter and Paul
June 29 / July 12

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Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and upon those in the tombs bestowing life!

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Jim Forest

November 2, 1941 ~ January 13, 2022

Memory Eternal

(Photo: Jim Forest’s Flickr account)

On April 5, 1977, peace activist and author Jim Forest received a phone call that his friend and collaborator Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, an Argentinian peace activist, had been kidnapped by the military dictatorship and was surely being tortured. Adolfo had become a disaparecido, like thousands of others. The most likely outcome was death. From his office in the Netherlands Jim and his staff began working to free Adolfo. They had the idea to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize as a publicity stunt to embarrass the Argentinian government. Jim called two Nobelists, the peace activists Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams, and together they wrote up material to nominate him and a press release stating as much. Within hours hundreds of papers picked up the story, and fourteen months later, by some miracle, Adolfo was released. Expecting nothing more to come of this, Jim thought he had received a prank call the next summer when the Nobel committee called to inform him that they would soon announce that Adolfo had won the prize. Read More

Archbishop Iakovos of North and South America and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
March in Selma. March 15, 1965.

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This year marks the 93rd birthday (January 15, 1929) of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the 54th anniversary (April 4, 1968) of his death. We share the following titles from Orthodoxy in Dialogue’s archives on race and white supremacy in his honour and memory.

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