The current confessional situation in Ukraine: interfaith problems and search for compromises

The religious situation in Ukraine has been multi-confessional in nature, because it is on the way of crossing of Orthodoxy and Catholicism. The article analyzes how political differences have affected the religious life of Ukrainians and what its reasons. Recently, in connection with the receipt of Thomos from Constantinople, relations between the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate and the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (in the recent past - the Ukrainian Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate) have worsened. The paper describes the autocephalous, Greek Catholic, Catholic and Protestant churches. Muslim and Jewish organizations, as well as new religions, neo-Pagans and oriental cults.