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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 ...
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 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 ...
Active religious practitioners who were devoted to establishing the Slavic Native Faith appeared in Poland and Ukraine during the 1930s and 1940s, while the Soviet Union under the leadership of Joseph Stalin promoted research into the ancient Slavic religion.
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.
As a professor of philosophy and theology at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Paul Gavrilyuk spends much of his daytime hours knee-deep in research about God and man. His nights are ...
Ukrainians (Ukrainian: українці, romanized: ukraintsi, pronounced [ʊkrɐˈjinʲts⁽ʲ⁾i]) [47] are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine. Their native tongue is Ukrainian, and the majority adhere to the Eastern Orthodox Church. By total population, the Ukrainians form the second-largest Slavic ethnic group after the Russians ...
The Foreign Secretary condemned Moscow’s indiscriminate bombing of Ukrainian places of worship at a human rights conference. Religion is ‘collateral damage’ in Ukraine war, says Truss Skip ...