Klara Gudzyk

80 years ago, Vasily Rozanov, a prominent Russian philosopher, composed his swan song, a short essay called “The Apocalypse of Our Time,” committing to paper what would be branded as “heretic and barbarian” views on the historic role of Christianity, mainly its impact on Russia. Perhaps no one...

By Klara Gudzyk, The Day Important issues were discussed, including the possibility of uniting the Orthodox churches and the role of the press in promoting the spirituality of Ukrainian society. One of the actions was a round table organized by the Spiritual Unity Foundation and the other...

* Women, not men, discovered that Jesus’ grave was empty and that only the shroud was left By Klara Gudzyk, The Day The Eastern Orthodox, Old Believers, and Greek Catholic adherents in Ukraine celebrate All Penitents’ Day on the third Sunday after Easter, which is May 3 this year....

THE 900TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BAPTISM OF RUS’ IN 1888 In 1888 tsarist Russia celebrated — for the first time on such a scale — the 900th anniversary of the baptism of Kyivan Rus’ and honored the memory of Prince St. Volodymyr. Oddly enough, until that year The Day to honor the Rus’ enlightener — the...

What many well-wishers and critics did not believe until the last minute ended up happening: Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople came to ancient Kyiv. He arrived on a Ukraine International Airlines flight and was met according to the protocol established for the visit of the late Pope John...

Last week a despicable incident, taken straight from the “finer” pages of the history of the Soviet era, took place in Kharkiv. A group of so-called communists smashed the plaque commemorating Josyf Cardinal Slipyj, which was hung on a building at 5 Malynovsky Street. Slipyj was the patriarch of...

Last Thursday the launch of a new collection of poems by the well-known Ukrainian writer and poetess Natalia Dziubenko-Mace took place at the House of Writers. Her new book, The Day of the Cold Sun , is dedicated to her late husband James Mace, the prominent Holodomor scholar, who died a few years...

At his residence in Kyiv Filaret, the Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus’- Ukraine, met the delegation of the Constantinople-based Ecumenical Patriarchate, among whose members were Metropolitan Emmanuel of France; Secretary-General of the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Synod, Archimandrite Elpidophoros, and...

Eight years ago a considerable proportion of the world’s population celebrated the 2,000th anniversary of Christ’s birth. During these last two millennia Christianity has changed in many respects, particularly the image of Jesus Christ. For a long time the early Christians, who were mostly subjects...

Last Tuesday, Feb. 19, Kyiv Information Day was filled with politics and debates about one of our “eternal and insoluble” social topics — the place of religion in Ukraine’s schools. For more than 10 years this complex and multifaceted problem has been debated in Ukraine by academics, MPs, teachers...