Софійське Братство – громадська організація
Dear friends, the mother of Fr. Kostiantyn Maksymov, a priest imprisoned by the Russians, has passed on to the Sophia Brotherhood a letter from her son—a letter addressed to those who remember him and to those who have forgotten him.
We are currently witnessing yet another surge in discussions about the future of the Ukrainian Church. Alongside the voices of real participants, video and text imitations created by artificial intelligence in favor of the Russian Orthodox Church are being added—rapidly spreading and distorting the authentic voices of the Church. What is happening? Why is this dirty information war for Ukraine’s right to have its own Church being waged so harshly and brazenly?
In the new episode of the YouTube channel VICHE, we present an open and principled conversation about what is happening to Orthodoxy today during the war.
At the end of November 2025, the Apostolic Visit of Pope Leo XIV to Turkey and the Ecumenical Patriarchate took place. This journey, which lasted from November 27 to 30, was connected with several dates of great significance for the Christian world.
If the Ecumenical Patriarchate does not intervene promptly, the situation in Ukraine risks becoming a pawn in political games. Without violating the Tomos of Autocephaly and without unnecessary conflicts, the Ecumenical Patriarchate could mediate for a permanent resolution of the ecclesiastical crisis in Ukraine by establishing a temporary Exarchate to “house” that part of Metropolitan Onuphry’s flock which wishes to sever ties with Moscow definitively but refuses to join the officially recognized Church of the country.
“The Truth About the Persecution of the UOC” — is not about loud statements from bishops who for years have been scaring society with imaginary
In the territories of Donbas and Pryazovia controlled by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, clergy and church activists whose faith does not please the “new authorities” are being repressed. Novaya Gazeta Europe examines the case of a Zaporizhzhia priest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) sentenced to 14 years of strict regime — the very church that Moscow, until very recently, called “canonical.”