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Article: NEWS ANALYSIS: The state of Ukraine's Orthodox Church: PART I
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- The Ukrainian Weekly
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- March 6, 1994
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Jaroslaw Martyniuk
Ukrainian Weekly, The
03-06-1994
NEWS ANALYSIS: The state of Ukraine's Orthodox Church: PART I.
by Jaroslaw Martyniuk
RFE/RL Research Institute
The attention that Western media devoted to the sensational events surrounding the fanatical religious sect the White Brotherhood in the fall of 1993 (the sect's supporters gathered in Kyyiv in November to await the end of the world, prophesied by the sect's leaders, clashing with the police and damaging priceless 11th century mosaics in the process) overshadowed potentially more significant developments in Ukrainian religious life that took place during the synods of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church held in September and October 1993. ...