the exarch of the russian orthodox church, pantileimon razhnovsky, lived in the zherovichi monastery. during the working day, as members of the occupation administration of the visit believed, the ruler was given an ultimatum. archbishop pantileimon can lead church life in occupied belarus, but only on condition:

both ukrainian churches, orthodox church of ukraine, ukrainian the greek catholic church synchronously switched to the new calendar from september 1 this year, and there were no major protests or splits in these churches. ago. i think that both the ukrainian greek catholic church and the ukrainian orthodox church, as well as evangelical christians, roman catholics, will celebrate christmas together this year, and this will undoubtedly contribute to the consolidation of the ukrainian nation. but you said that the transition was painless, but still, according to polls, 17% of ukrainians will celebrate christmas on january 7. ah, or whatever there is resistance and is it big, and if you know, in which regions in? countries? and there is a difference not only in the regions, because in western ukraine there is traditionally the greatest support, in the east it is the least, there the faithful are mostly indifferent to the calendar issue, instead there is a division between churches and denominations, if 80% of the faithful of the ukrainian greek catholic church fully support and 5% do not

and the orthodox church, which at that time remained the only orthodox denomination in ukraine, also adhered only to the julian calendar and it turned out that society had already switched to a new style a long time ago, and the church stuck to the old one. therefore, the julian calendar is currently delayed by 13 days. since 2014, ukrainian churchmen began to actively talk about switching to a new calendar. so, in 2017, the verkhovna rada added a non-working day on december 25 for those ukrainians who celebrate christmas according to the gregorian calendar. in december 2020 , metropolitan epiphany of kyiv noted that the orthodox church of ukraine will switch to the new calendar only when the faithful themselves are ready for it are ready shortly after this statement. svyatoslav noted that the ukrainian greek catholic church will switch to the new calendar only from the orthodox church of ukraine. christmas should be celebrated together, together with one's parish, together with one's church, because christmas is not a private event, it is very personal, although it has a personal dim

ukraine who, for various reasons, i would like to emphasize, still remain faithful to the ukrainian orthodox church. the church of the moscow patriarchate, the russian orthodox church, and we must treat people with understanding, who, again, have different motives for staying, and it is not always love for the russian federation, it is still not understanding the moments of canonicity, for example, of the orthodox church of ukraine, how so quickly, tomos, it was not... not long ago, here is a century endurance, history, it is simply difficult for some to accept new circumstances and go on the opposite side, but together with the way we are in... our country now, which is very polarized in a political, social sense, we see that two years of war are happening, this it's just hard, and people feel it, and it's very common this kind of anger is already starting to be splashed on each other somewhere more than necessary, how can we harmoniously experience and accept all these processes, wait for those... christians who are still somewhere in their thoughts? well, i may start with the first point, which

, ugh, and the orthodox church of ukraine from that russian baggage.interestingly, our brothers from the orthodox church of ukraine are experiencing this in his own way, having the support of the world. which patriarchy well, unfortunately, unfortunately, there is a part of the religious environment that is today a carrier of further influences of our northern neighbor. and today they too must go through this process of de-russification and decommunization. it's not easy. this is a painful process. because, you see, it is not enough to simply disconnect legally. or canonically from some center of influence, which today is in the state of the aggressor, because - this type of detachment has many other aspects, the church is the heart of a certain cultural environment, here is the church life of it not only with hymns, rites, traditions, even with its theological constitution. it reflects a certain tradition of a certain society and a certain people, that is why the de-russification of church life from the cultural, spiritual, canonical, even liturgical

the orthodox church is completely controlled and those priests that said an aggression against ukraine is immoral, in 300 years, every time there's a russian occupation the ukrainian catholic church is rendered illegal starting with catherine, 19th-century, 20th- century, 21st century. in the occupied done bus area, there's not a single catholic priest that is, and all of our confessions understand that a russia occupation will bring the limitation or elimination of our religious freedom, so for a voice from russia to question religious freedom, exhibited here, where in the world will you see an orthodox bishop, an orthodox jewish rabbi sitting together, as you said, look at us, look at us. and that is very important for people to see because the eyes of the world are only discovering ukraine. and we are very grateful to the institute of peace that fosters this discovery because the issues are not simple. but the image is very clear and it's before our eyes today. >> i'm asking, in the united states, the evangelical community is growing rapidly and as a unique and interesting allegianc

greek catholic church will switch to the new calendar only from the orthodox church of ukraine. ther, together with your parish, together with your church. because christmas is not a private event, it is very personal, although it has a personal dimension. christmas is a holiday for the whole people. russia's full-scale war against ukraine accelerated transformations in society. therefore, the issue of the transition to a new calendar acquired national and political features, as another way to get rid of the russian fraternal myth. therefore, from 2022 until now, many religious communities are transferring from the moscow patriarchate to the orthodox church of ukraine. the transition to the new julian calendar was announced at the synod of the ukrainian greek catholic church in february 2023. in the orthodox church of ukraine, they started talking about it. to speak in may, however, the final decision was made at the local council already in july. therefore, the transition to the new calendar became the decisive step that had not been taken for decades. in general, the majority o

, ugh, and of the orthodox church of ukraine from that russian baggage. interestingly, our brothers from the orthodox church of ukraine experience it in their own way.

realities, the ukrainian orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate, its activities in ukraine should be banned, quite clearly, despite the fact that the church is indeed separated in ukraine from the state, and no one... i think this fact of secularization does not deny, but the fact that the russian church is an instrument of russian propaganda, an instrument of the russian world, seems to me to be sufficient to ban it, what the longer ukraine plays these games with representatives of the russian orthodox church, the worse it is for all of us, unfortunately, and they simply created a sufficiently powerful lobby in the environment of the verkhovna rada and, unfortunately, actively use it, i regret it. when the ruling party claims to its masses that there are not 226 votes to ban the russian orthodox church, even after such words. in this case, it is not a matter of freedom of conscience, it is in this case a matter of national security. there is no doubt that the activity of a foreign church, an aggressive state and an aggressor country is and remains. in ukraine it is the issue is p

its center in an enemy country, a religious organization, receive the benefits that the church, the ukrainian orthodoxo-called church of the moscow patriarchate receives, it is impossible, therefore the verkhovna rada must listen to this to the opinion of the people and to gather and vote on those simple decisions, which, by the way, we have several pro... projects that are very well-developed, correct, and i studied them, they are very correct, they must be voted on, because otherwise we let's just keep things straight, it will be a dead end story, when sooner or later everything will be fine, this scumbag, he will blow everything up, and it will be, well, it can be very dangerous, i also read in kharkiv that a man was convicted in... already a 60-year-old man, who gave the russian fsb officers data about employees of the security service of ukraine, military pilots, commanders of special units of the armed forces of ukraine, and... also information about critical defense industry facilities in kharkiv, and as this man explained, he did everything, he did all this, and because he was born and grew up

this year, believers of the orthodox church of ukraine and the ukrainian greek catholic church jointly celebrate christmas on december 25 for the first time. a few years ago, the issue of transition to a new calendar remained at the level of discussions. this year, this is a decisive step not only of a socio-religious nature, but also of a geopolitical nature, because it means a final divorce from the moscow church. there are several reasons why ukrainian churches decided to leave the julian calendar, firstly he astronomically inaccurate: the earth rotates around the sun 12 minutes slower than the ancient romans thought, so in 1500 years the julian calendar was 10 days behind. concerned about this, pope gregory 13 decided to reform the calendar in 1582. therefore, from october 4 , the 15th came immediately, and the new julian calendar was accordingly called the gregorian calendar. before the bolshevik coup, the russian empire. adhered to the julian calendar at a time when all of europe had long ago switched to the gregorian calendar, which the ukrainian national republic. russia did no

receive positive news from the kharkiv region about the transition to reunification with the orthodox churchine, with the ecumenical patriarchate, with the entire free world, those churches that today, unfortunately, are still subordinated, of the moscow patriarchate, they call themselves independent, but in fact it is... the ukrainian orthodox church, which is a russian branch in ukraine, and this is proven there by all, all legislative acts, lawsuits and so on, court decisions and so on, look, well exactly, if we take the population of kharkiv region, during this time of war, i think that more than 50% changed their vision to russia, to the russian... church to the moscow patriarchate, and now simply, i think that a push is needed so that one of which powerful of the first communities came and they will simply all move on, it's a matter of time, and i , for example, am also a supporter of it being a balanced decision, so that there are no violent feelings, nothing, it should be a decision of the community , which comes from ... from them, from the heart, because believers must figure it ou

, about their relation to the orthodox church of ukraine and about all these transitions, butum, i would very much like that in our consciousness and in our ukrainian realities, the christian churches were real, really brothers to each other, and that we could talk frankly about each other's processes, share experiences, especially since the ukrainian greek-catholic church is very, very modern, and i am very grateful to you for this work that is carried out every day, the understanding that the world does not stand still, and you are also ready to develop together with the world, this it's unbelievable, it's just what people asked to convey, to be honest, but still returning to the processes of 2023, we saw the work of the council to try to root out the russian agency in ukraine, which is very often covered by religion, as well as here there are the first steps in this direction, we will see how it will be in practice, because we understand that the processes there are not easy, we have certain actions regarding the great christian shrine, the kyiv-pechersk lavra, and we hope

, which follows reception, which has reception in ordination, which, in communion with other orthodox churchesis unity. at meetings of the bpr rada , issues were discussed not only of restoring the structures of the autocephalous belarusian church, but also... personnel issues, since there were no orthodox clergy in the belarusian diaspora who were ready to support the project of creating a belarusian autocephalous church for key positions in artificially created church jurisdiction, active politicians, members of the rada of the belarusian people 's republic, a small group of supporters of this idea, among whom there was not a single bishop, should have come, and both in the period of its greatest heyday, the late forties, early fifties, and until now is just a small fringe group. nationalist organizations managed to attract an outside bishop, a representative, to the post of head of the belarusian-autocephalous church ukrainian autocephalous church. unlike belarus, during the years of occupation, ukraine declared the autocephaly of the orthodox church. at the invitation of the bpr rada , bis

become independent from the russian orthodox church. sh government is to completely subordinate the church to the state, the one that has achieved autocephaly. it didn't matter how this was done. u 1924 godze polska. the settlements of the damaged years in the abbyashchennaya autocephalous right of the slavic church of the kantzinopalsk patriarchate, some seem, and this thought hadzil ў... the lord does not act, which means that the sacraments are not performed, the divine service is not performed, so all these mysterious actions with which the church illuminates people, they do not have the power of grace, therefore the illegal, non-canonical proclamation of autocephaly harms people, harms their salvation, spiritual life, pastors who do not agree with religious genocide, poland deprived the parish, then citizenship. a number of priests were arrested and served sentences in prisons and exile camps. bishop of novogrudok pantiliman razhnovsky was removed from the department. the bishop who actually headed the grodno diocese, bishop belosto

the russian orthodox church condemns the decision of the kiev authorities to celebrate christmas in decembercalls it politically motivated. in order to accordingly influence this canonical church, in order to sow discord in ukrainian society, this decision , completely politically motivated, was made by the ukrainian authorities, of course, the vast majority of ukrainian citizens, believers, orthodox, they are celebrating christmas, as their fathers and grandfathers celebrated, that is, january 7, but the ukrainian authorities, it seems to me, have nothing to do with this, they are implementing the task - say, reformatting ukrainian society, erasing historical memory, it is in this logic that this is accepted solution. in germany, since the beginning of the year, about 50 fertilizer production enterprises have closed, and not only chemical enterprises, but also other industries are experiencing serious problems. dmitry morocco, dmitry, hello, it turns out that germany is losing its position as one of... the engine of the european union, continues to lose power, against the backdrop of massiv

de facto, at the head vladyka panteleman remained the orthodox church of belarus. yur, the head of the structure was narco. in march of the forty-second year, a church council was held in minsk, where the task was set of restoring the structure of the church. allowing sermons in churches and conducting office work in the belarusian language, metropolitan pantileiman did not change his principles and renounced autocephaly. he was an agent of the upwehr, at the end of each of his sermons he said that, finally, we would force german weapons under the leadership of the world leader hitler, our belarusian people liberated from the jewish bolsheviks. filofey called on parishioners to pray for the health of the fuhrer and for the victory over the muscovites. according to certain documents stored in the archives of state security agencies, a certain connection between filofey and. a number of representatives of the occupation authorities, this is the general commissioner of belarus of cuba, and a number of his employees of the general commissariat. filofei actively supporte

from death, and today... we will too, i don't know why they divide, western, eastern, today the orthodox churche celebrates the holy evening, er, this is eastern, this is a church of the eastern rite, but er, why did they write like that, well, i guess you should ask them, thank you very much for the answer, thank you for this conversation, kostyantyn kholodov, major of the chaplain service and archpriest of the orthodox church of ukraine was with us, we are going for a short break, then we will return. and we will have as many as two guests , we will talk about certain military things, stay with espresso. there are discounts on molteren porte 20% in in pharmacies plantain to you and savings. the traveler knows what helps. attention, an incredible novelty from despair. super warm and very comfortable alaska stayle boots. perfect fit, water repellency. material and a feeling of warmth even in 30-degree frost. alaska stayle boots have a universal design and practical black color. therefore, they will fit both men and women. sizes from 36 to 46. therefore, take two pairs at once for you and your h

cathedral in ukrainian , then conducted by one of the priests of the ukrainian autocephalous orthodox churchand... the moscow patriarchate already reacted to this in order to prevent, as at that time there was a chance in the 1990s, the creation of a single local church of ukraine, the orthodox church of ukraine, so they actually seized, well, entered arbitrarily there, the community of the moscow patriarchate began worshiping there, and actually this story began 33 years ago, when it was actually state property. well , this is the temple, they actually captured it and simply put it in front of the fact that they were forced to give it to them rent, and now, now, as we know, the transfiguration cathedral, it is located, it is closed, and it needs restoration, it is objectively, really so, it is in a neglected state, the building itself, the premises itself, but this very fact that this divine service took place, it is a fact of extreme ideological importance and a historical event itself. i am a small person, and i wanted to ask about this transfiguration cathedral, that it is interesting th

the russian orthodox church condemns the decision of the kiev authorities to celebrate christmas in decemberlly motivated. in order to accordingly influence this canonical church, in order to sow discord in ukrainian society. this decision was completely politically motivated and was accepted by the ukrainian authorities. of course, the vast majority of ukrainian citizens, believers, orthodox, are celebrating.

the greek orthodox church was bombed. in another attack on his compound, on october 20th, at least 17 christians were code including 10 from one families, several more injured. then on november, 13th and the elderly man was shot and killed by his ready forces outside garza's only catholic church. and they having 3 more attacks this month, including one that does tours the major greek orthodox church. nor com is joining us live from bethlehem and the occupied westbank now and nor how people they mock and christmas eve, given the war on gaza. but also daily. and also dead leaves ready on the raids into the occupied territories of the absolutely. elizabeth, now here you're saying really sad. and some of the scenes ad i've actually reported is from here in maine to square many times during christmas. usually it's so hot with people that we have to actually stand the way up in the buildings and reports from above. here, as you can see, i'm reporting in the center of the square and i just want to can show you around. usually wh

decided that all of them are now officially called the russian orthodox church, and a new onein skadovsk, that is, all those priests of the moscow patriarchate who shouted that they are the ukrainian orthodox church, now they are already officially the russian orthodox church, well, i don't know, maybe now there will be mass cases of harakiri. a refusal from there to transfer to the underground service, which the moscow patriarchate still wants, but ukrainians , i don’t know what will happen, they will all switch to the ukrainian language in the services, yes, we have protests, we celebrated christmas from the churches, i just don’t know actually how many are left here now on on the right bank, but celebrated christmas, only 17 stars, let's see who will celebrate the som of january, this will be an indicator, in fact, we have a very difficult time with this issue of churches, because the moscow patriarchate simply flourished here, well, it was just their parish, and even before, literally before the great war , before the invasion, salda tried to pass the question in the city

takes care of its chaplains and others priests who serve there in hospitals and so on, since the orthodox church is a young church, uh, a church that was constantly in repressions and persecutions, until the 18th year, we can say, and there until the 14th, the church , which i will destroy. institutions were destroyed, priests , even under the regime of yanukovych, it is very difficult to build such a structure, for example, as the roman catholic church, which has its own funds, support funds, structure, and in general , religious life in ukraine was destroyed, and we are still rebuilding it. . religious spirit, precisely the free religious spirit of ukrainians, this is also important to know, because and that, well , it will constantly arise, and secondly, the moscow patriarchate made us such a surrogate of religion, we have not seen anything except a sample of this, because in ukraine it is the majority was a religious majority that destroyed other religions. notes and they gave such a religious surrogate, we see the life of the monks of the kiev obsheka lavra and how they behaved, we have bea

can say by the example of our lavra, because for some time we were on the old style, so was the orthodox church of ukraine on september 1. switched to a new style, and until november 15 we were and celebrated all church dates according to the old style, but people did not accept, and of course, when some holidays took place, they recognized that we were following the old style, well, we did not visit the lavra as much as now, father, if we talk about that, and how in ukraine nowadays, during the great war, they follow such christian... traditions on so important, especially church holidays, do you observe certain changes here? despite all the fact that we really have a war, there is a lot of every ukrainian, ukrainian woman, limiting the opportunities of such people, even observing fasting, because we understand that those people who are under occupation, who are during various hostilities, the russian aggressor shows every time in relation to us, but still people still try to at least somehow observe these traditions and in particular fasting. have all the parishes of ocu switched to the new j

the ukrainian orthodox church of st. andrew, which is located near washington, was founded more than 70 years ago, and for the first time during this time , christmas is celebrated here on december 25. the change of the calendar, as the abbot of the church and the believers themselves said, did not become a problem. in the church for a solemn service. about two hundred people gathered, both from washington and neighboring states, among them immigrants from ukraine who recently moved to the united states because of the war, and representatives of the ukrainian diaspora, who were born or have lived in the usa for many years and preserve ukrainian traditions. everyone's prayers for ukrainian soldiers and ukrainians who defend their land and suffer from war. not all ukrainian orthodox churches in america, about 40%, have yet moved to the celebration of christmas on december 25. this year will be celebrated on january 7, however, in the church of st. andrew, they are convinced that it will take a little time to adjust, and th

, if it is part of the russian orthodox church, then it is a different story, but you understandto distance themselves from the russian church as much as possible now, so they are in a difficult situation now, but again this is a question, well, we have a large, large number of questions for this church. accordingly , the same transition and once again the synchronization of the calendar and the movement, i would call it westward to the civilized world, obviously, which also affects the authorities of the moscow church, but they now choose the following tactics: they strive to turn themselves into a church of martyrs who persecute us, expel us from the lavra, look what is being done to us, and we must prevent these things, because this has a maximum effect on the geopolitical attitude towards ukraine, on the one hand, and on the other there is the supply of weapons and everything else. at least for a while, if you allow me, you know, i hear hot heads who say, here there are special forces to drive to the lavra to clean everyone out of there, and you can imagine that tomorrow it w

ukrainians, because since september 1 the orthodox church of ukraine has already switched to the new lendar, it is also necessary to see that the greek catholic church has joined the gregorian calendar calendar, and thus all of ukraine, the majority of ukrainian christians celebrate holidays , together with all the ukrainian people, for example, today is the sixth day of st. nicholas, and on december 25 we will celebrate the bright... holiday of christmas, but is it possible to celebrate christmas twice, well, the previous ones years, this practice was there, i know that there are such families who are used to these dates and do not want to change them, is this not prohibited? in fact, we are a democratic country, and the church also uses these democratic principles, so believers was given the opportunity, after all, who is not yet ready to switch to the new julian calendar, to celebrate... holidays according to the old style, however , we see that out of all the parishes we have only the old style, only 120, that is, this is 15% of all e of all the believers of the orthodox church of

alexei hospital, this is a unique hospital of the russian orthodox church.t from moscow from here to mariupol, donetsk, gorlovka, and severy donetsk. they carry post-treatment patients and medical volunteers. i have a very interesting companion, she’s an art student, dasha, here she is goes to mariupol to teach children drawing. for myself, i will get great, well, i hope, some kind of life experience. and somehow help people, we are glad to welcome you, we will help you go down, probably, let’s do it like this, healthy, sick, i had a hip joint replaced, thank you very much, doctors, wonderful people. the staff in general, well, i just, i don’t know, it seems to me that i couldn’t even imagine this, new, right? to see you that you have come here, for us the arrival of a volunteer is always a holiday, yes, i once also started as a volunteer, i came here back in may, and then i decided to stay here, here was located... a boarding school for orphans, then the azov residents were housed here, there was a base for the azov residents, it was later located here, we

today , metropolitan epiphany of the orthodox church of ukraine led the festive liturgy on the occasion of the christmas of the lord god. our colleague dmytro knows more. dora, he is with us live from st. sophia cathedral. dmytro, christ is being distributed, how many people are at the service and in general, what is the mood. let's praise him. katya, i am actually in st. sophia's cathedral right now. a liturgy is held here from 9 a.m. on the occasion of christmas. it was headed by metropolitan epiphany. he has already said his word, his sermon, emphasized that... they pray for everyone, for all ukrainians, those who volunteer, those who are at the front, those who were forced to leave their homes, epiphany also reminded who really... . our enemy noted the importance of the transition from the old style of celebration to the new style of celebration, i will remind you that from september 1, the orthodox church of ukraine approved the transition to the new julian calendar, and from now on christmas is celebrated on the 25 december we asked the people whether this is important to them and

there is a similar picture with empty orthodox churches throughout ukraine today. the russian orthodox church condemns the decision of the kiev authorities to celebrate. but the ukrainian authorities, it seems to me, are up to this has no business, it implements the task of, say, reformatting ukrainian society, erasing historical memory, it is in this logic that this decision was made. us authorities have released geographic coordinates defining the outer limits of the us continental shelf in areas beyond 200 nautical miles from the coast, known as the extended continental shelf. and they claim that it is a solution. does not create territorial disputes with russia, but requires a settlement with canada and japan. us claims territory with an area of ​​about 1 million square m2. we will discuss this topic with the minister for the development of the far east and arctic alexei chikunkov. he has direct communication with us. alexey olegovich, i greet you. do you have any idea on what the us claims to expand this continental shelf in the arctic are based and why they p

the village tried to renounce the russian orthodox church and join the orthodox church of ukraine on the 19th, when the ocu received a tomos on autocephaly, but the priest was categorically against it. and we are unfaithful and we are schismatics, and we, this, this is terrible. look at these schismatics, look at the people. who want to go to their church, say a little prayer in ukrainian, after the full-scale invasion of russia to pray in the moscow church, the majority of the villagers finally refused. as you can go to this church when kirill consecrates tanks, rockets, consecrates everything so that they go, kill our children, take our land. in early june, residents of protsevo held a community meeting. they collected signatures for the transfer to ocu. in october, the religious community was finally reorganized, but people learned shocking information that the church, which was officially owned by the community, no longer belongs to it. the documents show us an extract from the state register of property rights, according to which the abbot first donated the church to his sister

now that there is an orthodox church of ukraine, we must think about the courtyard of the orthodox churchraine in jerusalem. i would very much like it to happen, so that ukrainians and the pilgrims who come to jerusalem, so that they can come to this courtyard, communicate with the priests in ukrainian, that's what you have to think about, and this is then the daily presence, you see, the minorah appeared, hanukkah ended, and the minorah is no longer there, but there is a synagogue that... they can come there every day to pray, and from the point of view of the religious importance of the holy land for every orthodox christian and every greek catholic, i would just like that, because that 's what i always lacked in jerusalem, to come to such a ukrainian courtyard, perhaps this ukrainian courtyard should be organized under one of the churches of the ecumenical patriarchate, which is there, it is not easy, because... the patriarch of jerusalem does not recognize the orthodox church of ukraine, he is one of those hierarchs who opposes this autocephaly, but maybe we should think about these c

which exists there, is not easy, because the patriarch of jerusalem does not recognize it. of the orthodox churchhe is one of those hierarchs who opposes this autocephaly, but maybe we should think about those churches that are friendly to our church, which have already recognized the ocu, which have their own churches there, maybe we need to do some work with them to find such an opportunity , so that ocu priests could serve in jerusalem, and that this was also a part, so to speak, of the continuation of this church independence, which also... paves our way to to europe, as a country in which the kyiv metropolis has been since ancient times, we definitely deserve it. thank you for this conversation, thank you viewers and listeners for being with us, it was saturday's flight club, vitaly portnikov and khrystyna yatskyi were with you. our colleagues will continue the broadcast of the tv channel in a few moments, you definitely should not switch, and follow our releases in the future. thank you for that. who were with us on this broadcast, we will continue to talk with you about current events in t

the russian orthodox church. that's christmas on january, the 2nd modem is lensky said that ukrainians want to lift their own life with their own traditions. also, bank has moved from keith this year ukraine will be celebrating christmas on the 25th of december. now that's a break away from the russian orthodox church that celebrates it. on the 7th of january, that traditionally, ukrainians have celebrated along with the russian orthodox church. but since the start of the war last year, ukraine, once the civil war ties with russia and moscow now the ukraine orthodox church has been of choosing the past, like the keep government having links to moscow. now the ukraine orthodox church says that they have some of those ties as of last year, and they also say, well, they want to be independent. now when you speak to people here in keep very happy about this move. they want to be independent. also this is a good move is a snow white keep to must go, but also presidents and then speed and keep want to align themselves

and that's, that's a break away from the russian orthodox church that celebrates it. on the 7th of january, that traditionally, ukrainians have celebrated along with the russian orthodox church. but since the start of the war last year, ukraine wants to civil war ties with russia and must go now that ukraine orthodox church has been of choosing the past, like the keep government having links to moscow. now the ukraine orthodox church says that they have 7th, those ties as of last year. and they also say, well, they want to be independent. now when you speak to people here in case they're happy about this move, they want to be independent. but also this is a political move is a snub. why key to must go, but also presidents and then speed and key one to align themselves with europe, many european countries and the western world. and this is seen as a step towards that. but when you speak to, people are head happy and they also want to be independent of russia. but what impact do they have on the rest of the country? well, this is a vast country. it has a population of 4

its chaplains and religious various priests who serve there in hospitals and so on. since the orthodox church is a young church, uh, a church that was constantly under repression and persecution, until the 18th year, we can say, and... and there until the 14th, the church that was destroyed, institutions, destroyed , priests, even under yanukovych's regime, it is very difficult to build such a structure, for example, like the roman catholic church, which has its own funds, support funds, structure, and in general , there was a religious life in ukraine. destroyed, and we are still rebuilding this, the religious spirit, which is free religious spirit of ukrainians, it is also important to know. and because and that's why it will constantly arise, and secondly, the moscow patriarchate made us such a surrogate of religion, we didn't see anything but a sample of this, because in ukraine it was a majority, a religious majority that destroyed other religious communities , and they gave such a religious surrogate, we see the life of the kyivan lavra of monks and... how they behaved, we have beautifu

takes care of its chaplains and various priests who serve there in hospitals and so on. since the orthodox churchchurch, well, a church that was constantly in repressions and persecutions, up to the 18th year, we can say, and there until the 14th, the church and... which were destroyed, institutions were destroyed, priests, even under yanukovych's regime, it is very difficult to build such a structure, for example, as the roman catholic the church, which has its own funds, support funds, structure, and in general , religious life in ukraine was destroyed, and...

but now with this efficient, we've seen snow to must go and the russian orthodox church. however, the former president here rejects that. this is a political move. this has nothing to do with the politics. first of all, it was at the season of the choice, not the decision of qualities, and it was absolutely hold in tatters. and even now those people of our church who want to celebrate the sick. so genius be free to do that and have not no fashion. but for many ukraine is this is the 1st time that they also the breaking christmas on the 25th of december. we've spoken to people across keith and they're very happy that this move has been made. and that this marks a sort of independence breaking away from old traditions dating back to the soviet union. this, this is glenn you for a position with motors to get this celebration festival. we have for the united with the rest of the boat, part of a family lives in poland and we always greeted them on the 25th. and they greeted us on the 7th, and this is the 1st day we can congratulate each other on the same day. now we are all to

dear brothers and sisters, this year the orthodox church of ukraine, together with the majority of localhurches, fully celebrates the holidays according to the new julian calendar for the first time. however, the union of christ and epiphany is unchanging. the son of god becomes a man for our sake and our salvation. christmas calls for a rethinking of life views and reminds us of eternal christian values. faith, love, truth, is the cornerstone of stability and the foundation of our struggle. i wish that the spiritual content of the holidays inspires everyone to continue to work hard for the sake of approaching victory, and the driving force in this is love for others and trust. to our defenders, let the carol sound for everyone, and especially for our soldiers, enveloping christmas with warmth, warming mentally and physically. i wish you, your family and friends a merry christmas and a blessed and victorious new year. christ was born, let's praise him. act, unite to feel the power of responsibility, to interact, to share stories, to become a part of history. since 2021, the responsibilit

possible, and here comes the all-ukrainian council of churches, where the jewish community sits together at the same table... rabbis and muslim muftis, orthodox catholics of various traditions, as well as protestants , that is, the all-ukrainian council of churches, just by its appearance, was already some kind of new trend, something similar does not exist in any other country in the world, but all those, i would say, moments, our church, ukrainian, greek. the church has its own special mission and its place, we are perhaps the only church in ukraine that has a global network of presence, but it was visible, you know, in those shots, the surprise of our president zelensky when he was visiting argentina, met the ukrainian greek-catholic bishop of buenos aires, who welcomed him there in latin america and told him about the centenary of the ukrainian community and our church there, that is, it shows that the global network of the presence of our church and in the ukrainian diaspora is the heart of that ukrainian world , that global ukrainianism, about which our president often thinks and speaks today, even in my opinion, in recent days at his p