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    STUDIA THEOLOGIA CATHOLICA LATINA - Issue no. 1 / 2023  
         
  Article:   THE WAR IN UKRAINE AS A CHALLENGE FOR RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES: ORTHODOXY, CATHOLICISM AND PROSPECTS FOR PEACEMAKING.

Authors:  PAVLO SMYTSNYUK.
 
       
         
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DOI: 10.24193/theol.cath.latina.2023.LXVIII.1.02
Article history: Received 17.04.2023; Revised 05.2023; Accepted 05.2023. Available online: 07. 06. 2023. Available print: 30. 06. 2023
pp. 26-70

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Abstract: This article shows how war is restructuring the configuration of religious life in Ukraine as a result of Russia’s full-scale invasion. Following a short introduction, which documents churches’ initial reactions to the war, I focus on three issues. First, I examine the ways in which the war exacerbates existing tensions within Ukrainian Orthodoxy, echoing the divide within world Orthodoxy. Second, I analyse the challenges faced by Ukrainian Catholics in relation to the Holy See’s position on the war, which is marked by neutrality and a propensity towards nonviolence. Third, I delineate a few trajectories, which could allow churches to be more proactive in playing a role in peacemaking and future reconciliation.

Key words: Russo-Ukrainian war, Orthodoxy, Catholicism, peacebuilding, reconciliation.
 
         
     
         
         
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