The Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the Kremlin

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In 2018, Pedro Poroshenko started a process to get all the Orthodox churches in Ukraine to unify. In 2019, Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople recognized this new group as the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. Since then, these two churches have been competing with each other to win parishes and believers. Ukrainian security services say that the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is serving as a propaganda tool for Moscow.

Ceasefires have failed, civilians are fleeing, and there is no end in sight to the fighting. We bring you an update on the escalating conflict. A Ukrainian church accused of spreading Russian propaganda is in trouble, raising questions about the limits of religious freedom. And a lucrative cricket league is about to get even more so by going global.

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