Religion
Politics
22 July 2016
Vadym Novynskyi’s Commentary on Searches at Smart-Holding Group Companies
Today, unlawful searches are being conducted once again in a number of companies that are part of the Smart-Holding Group.
Representatives of the Security Service of Ukraine, under the guise of questionable court decisions, have entered company offices, stating that their purpose is to investigate the issue of alleged “involvement of the company in the financing of terrorism.”
It is quite clear that it is a brazen, illegal attack on me as a beneficiary of the group of companies. The sole reason is my unbending political and public stand against the current Government, and my activities as patron of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
Representatives of the Security Service of Ukraine, under the guise of questionable court decisions, have entered company offices, stating that their purpose is to investigate the issue of alleged “involvement of the company in the financing of terrorism.”
It is quite clear that it is a brazen, illegal attack on me as a beneficiary of the group of companies. The sole reason is my unbending political and public stand against the current Government, and my activities as patron of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
Religion
21 July 2016
Novynskyi: the Authorities are Trying to Take Control of the Church
Vadym Novynskyi, a People’s Deputy from a faction of the “Opposition bloc” was awarded the Order of the Holy Prince Daniel of Moscow II for services to Ukraine. Today, Novynskyi spoke to RIA Novosti Ukraina (Ukrainian News) about the disaffection in society, the autocephaly of the Ukrainian church and this summer’s Holy Cross religious procession.
Although representatives of the clergy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) were the only people who attempted to reconcile the opposing parties during the Maiden (2014), it is the only canonical church that has become a thorn in the flesh of the politicians who have since come to power. The violent seizure of churches attacks on members of the clergy, and persecution of the faithful – all this has become the sad reality for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which has the largest number of followers in Ukraine.
Although representatives of the clergy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) were the only people who attempted to reconcile the opposing parties during the Maiden (2014), it is the only canonical church that has become a thorn in the flesh of the politicians who have since come to power. The violent seizure of churches attacks on members of the clergy, and persecution of the faithful – all this has become the sad reality for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which has the largest number of followers in Ukraine.
Religion
11 July 2016
Comment on Statement by Parliament Speaker Andrey Parubiy on All Ukrainian Religious Procession
Today, at the initiative of His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufriy, Ukraine is holding an unprecedented spiritual event, the Sacred Procession of Orthodox believers traveling from Pochaev and Svyatogorsk to Kiev to demonstrate their aspiration for peace and unity in the country. During their pilgrimage, 20 thousand believers will be joined by thousands of others to demonstrate their position and to jointly call upon the Lord to end the war and fratricide, and to return peace and stability to our land.
I resolutely declare that I wholly and fully support the initiative of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which is the only Church to show a true union of the East and the West of the country, and I share the hopes of tens of thousands of pilgrims participating in this religious procession and of all Orthodox believers in Ukraine.
Religion
30 June 2016
Vadym Novynskyi commented on the Decision of the Pan-Orthodox Council "On Autonomy and the Means of Proclaiming It"
The Pan-Orthodox Council, which was concluded on 24 June this year on Crete, adopted a decision "On Autonomy and the Means of Proclaiming It", among a number of important decisions regulating the life of the Church.
In fact, it has been recognized that a Church can gain autonomy, as well as autocephaly, only with the consent of the Principal Church (Mother Church). This provision has put an end to insinuations that were actively promoted by individual heresiarchs, and some narrow-minded politicians, and demagogues in Ukraine.
Ukrainian Orthodoxy is based on the fact that the Mother Church for Orthodox believers in Ukraine is the Russian Orthodox Church, with which the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) has coexisted in canonical unity for centuries.
In fact, it has been recognized that a Church can gain autonomy, as well as autocephaly, only with the consent of the Principal Church (Mother Church). This provision has put an end to insinuations that were actively promoted by individual heresiarchs, and some narrow-minded politicians, and demagogues in Ukraine.
Ukrainian Orthodoxy is based on the fact that the Mother Church for Orthodox believers in Ukraine is the Russian Orthodox Church, with which the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) has coexisted in canonical unity for centuries.
Religion
25 June 2016
Vadym Novynskyi Commented on Parliament's Address to Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople
Sometimes it is useless trying to bring a person to reason using words. They do not listen to the voice of common sense. They ignore logical arguments and persist in doing everything their own way.
Why did the Verkhovna Rada lay itself open to universal ridicule and adopt the Address to His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew? It has been repeatedly said that according to the canons of the Church, autocephaly can only be granted by the Mother Church, the principal church, which for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is the Russian Orthodox Church.
The document adopted by the Parliament is not only null and void from a legal point of view (as it contravenes the applicable law and was signed by the speaker, A.Parubiy, contrary to the Regulations), but it is also disastrously illiterate from a historical, canonical and theological viewpoint.
Why did the Verkhovna Rada lay itself open to universal ridicule and adopt the Address to His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew? It has been repeatedly said that according to the canons of the Church, autocephaly can only be granted by the Mother Church, the principal church, which for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is the Russian Orthodox Church.
The document adopted by the Parliament is not only null and void from a legal point of view (as it contravenes the applicable law and was signed by the speaker, A.Parubiy, contrary to the Regulations), but it is also disastrously illiterate from a historical, canonical and theological viewpoint.
Religion
22 June 2016
Novynskyi Talks about New Challenges to Orthodoxy and Ukraine
According to the People’s Deputy, Vadym Novynskyi, some deputies are attempting to adopt a law to limit the activities of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
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