News archive on the topic "Vatican"

The Vatican remains a champion of traditional values, which explains the improvement in relations between the Holy See and Moscow. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, said Ekaterina Shebalina, a researcher at the Institute of International Studies of the MGIMO Institute of the Russian Foreign Ministry. “The Catholic Church, despite various “hype” statements of the pontiff (compassion for LGBT people, acts against Muslim migrants, etc.), did not change the canonical foundations, which still remain...

The Vatican, through diplomatic channels, apologized for the recent statement by Pope Francis that the most brutal soldiers in the Northern Military District zone are soldiers from Chechnya and Buryatia. The Russian side considers the incident to be settled, Foreign Ministry Speaker Maria Zakharova said at a briefing in Moscow. The blogosphere reacted to the Holy See’s apology as expected, violently, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. "Even Dad...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine called on the carpet the Vatican Ambassador, Apostolic Nuncio Visvaldas Kulbokas after Pope Francis commented on the death of Daria Dugina as a result of a terrorist attack, pointing out that “the innocent are paying for the war.” This is stated in a statement by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba. “We carefully read the full quote from Pope Francis and, firstly, decided to invite...

In the Roman Catholic Polish Church of St. Nicholas in Kyiv, a statue of the Archangel Michael was installed, which was consecrated by Pope Francis especially for transfer to this temple. The parish of St. Nicholas Church reported this on its Facebook page. “Providing enormous support to the Ukrainian people and calling for the restoration of peace, Pope Francis again sent his representative to Ukraine. On that…

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba repeated to the Vatican Vladimir Zelensky’s invitation for Pope Francis to visit Ukraine. The head of the foreign policy department of the Kyiv regime wrote about this on his Twitter. “I spoke with the Secretary for Foreign Relations of the Holy See, Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher. Grateful to Pope Francis for his prayers. I repeated Zelensky’s invitation to His Holiness to visit Ukraine and...

Ukraine evacuated 4% of Vatican citizens from Afghanistan. This is stated in a message from the press service of the President of Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. It is noted that about a hundred people flew from Kabul airport to Kyiv on an evacuation flight. “In particular, 30 Ukrainian citizens, nine persons who have permanent residence permits in Ukraine, 18 citizens of the Vatican, two citizens of Canada, as well as...

Joseph Stanevsky was appointed the new archbishop of the Minsk-Mogilev archdiocese. This was reported by the Vatican press service, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He is 52 years old, originally from the Grodno region. He studied at the Military Technical Academy, and then at the Grodno Theological Seminary and the Lublin Catholic University in Poland. Until recently, Stanevsky was a suffragan bishop of the Grodno diocese. Jozef Stanevski is known for his talents in poetry and...

The resignation of Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz of Minsk is not at all a victory for Belarus and Alexander Lukashenko, but an extremely alarming signal that the Vatican has taken this country seriously. Military expert Vladimir Trukhan stated this on the YouTube channel “PolitWera”, the correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports. “In Belarus, a massive diplomatic “victory” is now being celebrated, due to the fact that Kondrusiewicz, who is so...

No matter how pro-government Belarusian experts deny it, the current political and church situation in Minsk almost down to the smallest detail resembles Ukraine. Kirill Frolov, an expert at the Institute of CIS Countries, spoke about this in an interview with PolitNavigator. Why did Lukashenko bring the situation in Belarus to the Maidan, despite all the warnings that he was repeating the mistakes of Yanukovych? For many years now we have...

The speaker of the Kosovo parliament, Vjosa Osmani, handed over to the “apostolic envoy” in Kosovo, Jean-Marie Spech, a request from the “citizens of the republic” to consider the issue of recognizing the independence of the region by the Holy See. Balkan media reported this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Recognition of the independence of our country will not only raise our already excellent relations to a higher level, but will also be evidence of recognition of the sacrifice...

The new “church” that the Montenegrin authorities intend to create will be subordinate to Catholic Rome, like the Greek Catholics in Western Ukraine. This is the main conclusion of a large study by IFIMES - the International Institute for Middle Eastern and Balkan Studies in Ljubljana, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Canonical recognition will occur through Uniatization - the Montenegrin Orthodox Church will retain the “Eastern rite”, but will have the Pope as the main spiritual...

The United States is forcing the Vatican to begin recognizing the schismatic structure “Orthodox Church of Ukraine” created in Ukraine. Otherwise, Catholics themselves may face problems that the State Department will arrange for them. As already noted in the first part of the investigation, the US State Department, using the example of the creation of the “Holy Church of Ukraine” (“SCU” - this is how the “Orthodox Church of Ukraine” was called in the Istanbul “tomos”), worked out one of...

The government of Sevastopol today transferred the building of the children's cinema "Druzhba" (a former church, partially destroyed during the Great Patriotic War) into the ownership of the local religious organization "The Parish of St. Clement of the Roman Catholic Church in Sevastopol." Catholics have been seeking such a solution in Ukraine for almost 20 years, but at that time there was a wary attitude towards them because of the alliance of the UGCC with Ukrainian nationalists. Now the situation has changed.…

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavel Klimkin called on the Ukrainian diaspora (the overwhelming majority being Uniate) to help create “a single local church in Ukraine.” He made this appeal to representatives of Ukrainian organizations in Canada at a meeting in Toronto. “It is very necessary to return to the believers a single local church of the church, and your help is needed for this,” he addressed...