The Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Center simultaneously combines various functions: it is a world-class humanities library and also a modern educational center. The ground floor of the library is devoted to public creativity.

 

Jews, it appears, will be living under the “Tryzub” – the gold trident that forms Ukraine’s national symbol, for some time to come.

 

Photo: Rabbi Pinchas Vishedsky at the Jewish Community Center for Refugees in Kyiv.

(photo credit: Rabbi Vishedsky)

 

“This is an important event for global Jewry, and we are very thankful first of all to the local community members for their initiative and determination in carrying out this project,” said Rabbi Yossef Wolf, chief rabbi of the Southern Ukraine region at the opening ceremony. “Rabbi Hillel is considered one the greatest and righteous figures in later Judaism and keeping his legacy alive fills our hearts with joy.”

 

Turning to the situation in Ukraine, Cardinal Parolin said that, “for now, there is no news; perhaps, it is premature…If there are seeds of good, which we have sought to sow,” he said, “we hope the Lord will make them sprout and bring them to fruition.”

Young musicians from Germany and Ukraine wowed audiences in Lviv and Kyiv, with more intercultural dialogue and musical fireworks still to come.

 

Despite finishing second in the jury vote, Anastasiya took the top spot after winning the televoting section.  

 

Ukrainian autocephaly is a threat to the Moscow Patriarchate’s control of East Slavic Orthodoxy. And the Moscow Patriarchate’s ecclesiastical control over Orthodoxy in Ukraine and Belarus is an important element of the Kremlin’s political control over those countries.

 

The Roman Catholic parish in Staryj Sambir dates back to the 15th century; at that time there was a wooden temple in the city, which later burned to ashes.

 

A gift to Dnipro’s Menorah Jewish Community Center may become world famous as a record holder

Currently the Archeparchy of Philadelphia is made up of roughly 67,250 faithful and 74 parishes under its canonical jurisdiction.

 

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