https://germanandrussian.nd.edu/events/2018/11/12/panel-discussion-christianity-in-crisis-orthodoxy-and-catholicism-in-europe-today/
Wherever we look around the world today, Christianity appears to be in some sort of crisis. Recently in the East, a decision by Bartholomew I (Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople) to grant recognition to a new national Ukrainian Orthodox Church has touched off what has been described as "a major schism" in global Orthodoxy.

https://nanovic.nd.edu/events/2018/11/12/panel-discussion-christianity-in-crisis-orthodoxy-and-catholicism-in-europe-today/
The Nanovic Institute for European Studies and the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (NDIAS) invite you to attend: Christianity in Crisis: Orthodoxy and Catholicism in Europe Today November 12 (Monday), 3:30-5:00 p.m., Nanovic Hall Room 1050. Wherever we look around the world today, Christianity appears to be in some sort of crisis.

https://medieval.nd.edu/news-events/events/2018/11/12/panel-discussion-christianity-in-crisis-orthodoxy-and-catholicism-in-europe-today/
The Nanovic Institute for European Studies and the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (NDIAS) invite you to attend: Christianity in Crisis: Orthodoxy and Catholicism in Europe Today November 12 (Monday), 3:30-5:00 p.m., Nanovic Hall Room 1050. Wherever we look around the world today, Christianity appears to be in some sort of crisis.

https://nanovic.nd.edu/assets/295925/poster_christianity_in_crisis.pdf
The panel and open Q&A session afterwards will be moderated by Anthony Monta, Associate Director, Nanovic Institute for European Studies. CHRISTIANITY IN CRISIS ORTHODOXY AND CATHOLICISM IN EUROPE TODAY THE NANOVIC INSTITUTE FOR EUROPEAN STUDIES AND THE NOTRE DAME INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY (NDIAS) INVITE YOU TO ATTEND: NANOVIC.ND.EDU/CRISIS

https://theconversation.com/why-a-centuries-old-religious-dispute-over-ukraines-orthodox-church-matters-today-109768
Russian President Vladimir Putin with Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church, left. Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP. Ukraine's Orthodox Church recently broke off

https://academic.oup.com/isr/article/25/4/viad051/7394689
IR's inattention to the histories and theologies of Eastern Orthodoxy is made acute today by the return of the ROC to the center of political power in Russia and the apparent increase in the influence of the church under its Patriarch Kirill (Vladimir Gundyayev), a former agent of Russian intelligence and close ally of Vladimir Putin

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11186-021-09451-3
This article mobilises an analytical framework developed by the author in a series of solo and joint publications according to which religion has shifted from a Nation-State to a Global-Market regime, which it applies to the case of Eastern European Orthodox majority countries, including Russia, in modern times. Bringing together a large amount of research in a synthetic objective, it first

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_Christianity_in_the_Western_world
According to Scholars, in 2017, Europe's population was 77.8% Christian (up from 74.9% 1970). These changes were largely the result of the collapse of Communism and switching to Christianity in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries. According to the 2021 Eurobarometer survey, Christianity was the largest religion in the European Union, accounting 66.1% of the EU population, down

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00085006.2022.2107836
Russia's escalation of its eight-year war against Ukraine into a full-scale invasion (February 2022) aggravated a pre-existing crisis of Russian Orthodoxy. Since Ukraine's independence (1991), the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) - initially the largest church in Ukraine - has sustained a drastic loss of members and a crisis of identity as

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2017/11/08/orthodox-christianity-in-the-21st-century/
Today, just 12% of Christians around the world are Orthodox, compared with an estimated 20% a century ago. And 4% of the total global population is Orthodox, compared with an estimated 7% in 1910. The geographic distribution of Orthodoxy also differs from the other major Christian traditions in the 21st century.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09637494.2015.1092727
In this article I aim first of all to provide a historical framework for the relationship between the 'Western world', especially Italian, and the 'Eastern world' of Orthodoxy. Then I shall briefly analyse two examples of different interactions between Orthodoxy and the Roman Catholic context in Italy: the Montaner parish and the

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theological_differences_between_the_Catholic_Church_and_the_Eastern_Orthodox_Church
The Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church have been in a state of official schism from one another since the East-West Schism of 1054. This schism was caused by historical and language differences, and the ensuing theological differences between the Western and Eastern churches. The Byzantine Empire permanently withdrew from the

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_Europe
Christianity has been practiced in Europe since the first century, and a number of the Pauline Epistles were addressed to Christians living in Greece, as well as other parts of the Roman Empire . According to a 2010 study by the Pew Research Center, 76.2% of the European population identified themselves as Christians.

https://events.nd.edu/events/2018/11/12/panel-discussion-christianity-in-crisis-orthodoxy-and-catholicism-in-europe-today/
Christianity in Crisis: Orthodoxy and Catholicism in Europe Today Wherever we look around the world today, Christianity appears to be in some sort of crisis. Recently in the East, a decision by Bartholomew I (Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople) to grant recognition to a new national Ukrainian Orthodox Church has touched off what has been

https://www.imb.org/2016/12/29/how-to-share-the-gospel-among-the-eastern-european-orthodox/
Cultural, political, and theological differences through the centuries led to the Great Schism in AD 1054. Western and Eastern Christianity remain separated today, with Roman Catholicism dominant in the West and Orthodoxy dominant in the East. Each considers itself to be the true and universal (catholic or ecumenical) church.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/26612080
to specifically focus on Orthodox Christianity was Müller-Armack (1959) in a study first published in 1945 He attempted a systematic comparison between the major Christian traditions (Calvinism, Lutheranism, Catholicism and Orthodoxy) and identified numerous commonalities, but also different

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2017/11/08/key-takeaways-about-orthodox-christians/
Key takeaways about Orthodox Christians. A woman lights a prayer candle at an Orthodox church in Moscow. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Orthodoxy is the third-largest branch of Christianity, after Catholicism and Protestantism. Today, there are approximately 260 million Orthodox Christians in the world, according to a new Pew Research Center report.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/environment/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/christianity-christianity-western-europe
William Christian Bullitt, Christianity, derived from Judaism to become the dominant religion of western Europe and the driving force behind its civilization, has underpinned m… Christian, Christian relating to or professing Christianity; a believer in Christianity. Christian is the name of the central character of the first part of Bun… Christian Iv, Christian IV (1577-1648) was Denmark's

https://apnews.com/article/germany-catholic-church-departures-abuse-5b5aedeed5df5f07c7512faa4e6c306a
1 of 3 | . FILE - A man sits in the empty 'Church of our Lady' in Munich, Germany, Thursday, March 19, 2020. Another 400,000 people formally left the Catholic Church in Germany last year, though the number was down from a record set in 2022 as church leaders struggle to put a long-running scandal over abuse by clergy behind them and tackle calls for reform, official figures showed Thursday

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_the_11th_century
Medallion of Christ from Constantinople, c. 1100. Christianity in the 11th century is marked primarily by the Great Schism of the Church, which formally divided the State church of the Roman Empire into Eastern (Greek) and Western (Latin) branches.. In 1054, following the death of the Patriarch of Rome Leo IX, papal legates (representatives of the Pope) from Rome traveled to Constantinople to

https://medium.com/catholicism-for-the-modern-world/catholic-west-vs-orthodox-east-7d6c6b39715
Jan 7, 2023. --. 2. The current war in Ukraine has highlighted longstanding cultural divisions between the Euro-American West and the Russian East. Some of these divisions have roots going back to

https://www.getreligion.org/getreligion/2022/3/18/thinking-about-world-christianity-as-crux-digs-deep-into-many-overlooked-catholic-details
Consider that 16 million is more than the entire Catholic population of Canada, and the church added that number of new followers in one year alone, Today, Catholics represent a robust 17.7 percent of everyone on earth. In other words, the dominant Catholic story today is not decline, it's breakneck growth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Eastern_Orthodox_Christians
The Ustashe recognized Roman Catholicism and Islam as the national religions of Croatia, but it held the position that Eastern Orthodoxy, as a symbol of Serb identity, was a dangerous foe. In the spring and summer of 1941, the genocide against Eastern Orthodox Serbs began and concentration camps like Jasenovac were constructed.

https://www.worldreligionnews.com/religion-news/orthodox-church-changed-21st-century/
In 1054, Orthodoxy, also known as Eastern Christianity, split from the Catholic Church over various disputes and disagreements on theological issues as well as papal authority. Today, this branch