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The Native Ukrainian National Faith (Ukrainian: Рі́дна Украї́нська Націона́льна Ві́ра, Rídna Ukrayíns'ka Natsionál'na Víra; widely known by the acronym РУНВі́ра, RUNVira), also called Sylenkoism (Силенкоїзм) or Sylenkianism (Силенкіянство), and institutionally also known as the Church of Ukrainian Native Faith or Church of ...
As of 2016, the Ukrainian state officially recognises only four of the following organisations (RUNVira, Ancestral Fire of the Native Orthodox Faith, the Churches of Ukrainian Gentiles and the Federation of Ukrainian Rodnovers), with more than one hundred local congregations affiliated with these four.
The war has stirred different reactions among Rodnovers in Ukraine; those belonging to the Native Ukrainian National Faith viewed Russia as the aggressor, while adherents of other Rodnover organisations like the Ancestral Fire of the Native Orthodox Faith more commonly saw Russians and Ukrainians as brothers and believed that the conflict was ...
The All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations (Ukrainian: Всеукраїнська Рада Церков і релігійних організацій), shortly AUCCRO or UCCRO, is an organisation associating religious communities of Ukraine. Founded in 1996 for coordination of inter-church dialogue and participation in ...
The deputy senior bishop of the Ukrainian Evangelical Church, a Protestant denomination, said that since the February 2022 Russian invasion, some of his church’s pastors have been killed, and ...
Another religion that is present in Ukraine besides Christianity is Rodnovery (Slavic native faith), which comprises Ukrainian- and Russian-language communities (some Rodnover organizations call the religion Orthodoxy (Ukrainian: Правосла́в'я, romanized: Pravoslávʺya), thus functioning in homonymy with Christian Orthodox churches).
The United States-based Native Ukrainian National Faith established itself in Ukraine soon after independence, with the first congregation in Ukraine gaining official recognition in Kyiv in 1991. [323] There had been schisms in the international organisation of Native Ukrainian National Faith. [123]
Ukraine on Friday banned the activities of religious organizations “affiliated with centers of influence” in Russia and said it would examine the links between the Ukrainian and Russian ...