To add statements or press releases, please contact Vanessa Barreto: barreto@cec-kek.be
For questions relating to the Russian, please contact Ms. Natallia Vasilevich: boorbalka@gmail.com
Statements issued before the onset of war:
- Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) of Volokolamsk [1] (PDF)
- Patriarch Kirill of Moscow [2]
- All-Ukrainian Council of Churches [3]
- Pope Francis [4]
- Metropolitan Jozef Stanewski, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Minsk [5]
Statements issued after the onset of war:
- Epiphany, Metropolitan of Kyiv – autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine [6]
- Onuphriy, Metropolitan of Kyiv – Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate [7]
- Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew [8]
- Patriarch Kirill of Moscow [9]
- Patriarch Elias of Georgia [10]
- Archbishop Tikhon of the Orthodox Church in America [11]
- European Bishops of ROCOR [12]
- American ROCOR [13]
- Vladimir, Metropolitan of Chișinău and all Moldova (Russian Orthodox Church) [14]
- Metropolitan Veniamin of Minsk, Belarusian Orthodox Church, Moscow Patriarchate [15]
- Patriarch Daniel of Romania [16]
- Orthodox Church of Greece – Abp. Ieronomyus [17]
- Bishop Neophytos of Nyeri and Mt Kenya, African Orthodox Church of Kenya [18] (PDF)
- Archbishop Svyatoslav of Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church [19]
- Conference of Catholic Bishops in Russia [20]
- Cardinal Parolin, Holy See [21]
- Gintaras Grušas, chief of CCEE [22]
- Stanisław Gądecki, chief of Conference of Catholic Bishops in Poland [23]
- Aleh Butkevich, chief of Conference of Catholic Bishops in Belarus [23]
- Russian Baptist Union [24]
- Belarusian Pentecostal Union [25]
- World Council of Churches calls for an end to armed hostilities [26]
- World Council of Churches urges Putin to restore peace [27]
- Belarusian Christian Vision Group statement [28]
- Archbishops of Canterbury and York statement [29]
- CEC, WCRC, LWF, WMC [30]
- European Ecumenical Peace movement: Church and Peace [31]
- Church of Scotland calls for ceasefire [32]
- Church of Scotland Prayer for Peace [33]
- Polish Ecumenical Council English [34], German, [35] Polish [36], Ukrainian, [37] Russian [38]
- French News Article by Constantin Sigov [39]
- The Consistory of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland [40]
- The Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland [41]
- The bishops of the Orthodox Church of Finland [42] (PDF)
- Statement of Estonian Council of Churches [43] (PDF)
- Open Letter to Patriarch Kyrill from president of the Mennonite World Conference [44]
- Women’s Appeal for Peace from former Yugoslavia [45] (PDF)
- International Association for Religious Freedom [46], an association of the Remonstrant Church
- The Council for Religious and Life Stance Communities in Norway [47] (PDF)
- Peace Appeal of the Finnish Ecumenical Council [48] (PDF)
- Othodox Autocephalous Church of Albania [49]
- The Czechoslovak Hussite Church [50]
- The Bishop Council of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church, Czech [51], English [52] (PDF)
- Open letter to the church leaders in Russia from the Czech Republic, Czech [53], Russian [54] (PDF), English [55] (PDF)
- Appeal of the clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church [56]
- Priests of the Moscow Patriarchate call for an end to the war [57] (KathPress)
- Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church [58] (PDF)
- Standing Committee of the National Ecumenical Council of Churches in Austria [59] (PDF)
- International Ecumenical Fellowship [60] (PDF)
- Conference of European Churches [61]
- Friends World Committee for Consultation [62]
- Statement from Russian Orthodox priests [63]
- Christian Council of Norway [64]
- European Baptist Federation Situation Report 11 March [65]
- Council of Churches in Netherlands Dutch [66], English [67] (PDF)
- Religions for Peace Press Release [68]
- The Bishops’ Conference of Church of Norway, Norwegian [69], English [70]
- Friends World Committee For Consultation: Christian’s Say No To War [71] (in Russian, Ukrainian and English)
- Pax Christi International – Ukraine: An opportunity for a Just Peace [72]
- WSCF-Europe solidarity statement [73] (PDF)
- H.B. Archbishop Ieronymos of the Church of Greece to Patriarch Kirill, English [74], Greek [75]
- Communauté de l’Arche [76] (PDF)
- Finnish Lutheran bishops’ appeal [77]
- Finnish Lutheran Archbishop’s statement [78]
- Chair of the Council of the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD), Präses Dr h.c. Annette Kurschus [79]
- Council of Churches in the Netherlands [80]
- A Declaration on the “Russian World” (Russkii mir) Teaching from the Orthodox Christian Studies Center [81] (including petition)
- ACT’s Europe Forum appeal [82]
- European Baptist Federation Situation Report 17 March [83]
- President of the Seventh-day Adventist World Church, Ted N.C. Wilson – Call to Prayer [84]
- The Russian Evangelical Alliance – Letter from General Secretary Vitaly Vlasenko [85]
- Adventistische Kirchenleitungen in Deutschland, der Schweiz und weltweit [86]
- CECEF Appel pour la paix en Ukraine [87] (PDF)
- Federation protestante de France, Letter from president Pasteur François Clavairoly, French [88] (PDF), Russian [89] (PDF)
- COMECE: President of the EU Bishops, Cardinal Hollerich, letter to Moscow Patriarch Kirill [90] (see Press Release here [91])
- Statement from 12 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates [92] posted on IPPNW Responds to Crisis in Ukraine [93] (Sign petition here [94])
- Statement from Estonian Council of Churches and the leaders of its member churches [95]
- The Interreligious and Interconvictional Dialogue Committee with the Council of Europe [96], French [97] (PDF), English [98] (PDF)
- Joint Statement from CEC-CCEE [99] English [100] (PDF), French [101](PDF), Italian [102] (PDF), Greek [103] (PDF)
- Stellungnahme der Kirchenkonferenz zum Krieg in der Ukraine [104] (Statement from the Conference of the member churches of the Protestant Church in Germany) English [105] (PDF)
- European Baptist Federation Situation Report 24 March [106]
- Appeals from Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations [107]
- CPCE Statement on the War on Ukraine [108] (includes English, German, French on the page, Estonian [109], Italian [110] separately)
- European Baptist Federation Situation Report April 14 [106]
- Iona Community Call to Peace with Justice [111], including an invitation to three ‘Global Gatherings for Peace’ on 7, 21, and 28 April.
- European Baptist Federation Situation Report April 21 [112]
- Activities of The United Methodist Church in the Central Conference of Central and Southern Europe with/for Refugees from Ukraine – Summary of April 5, 2022 [113] (PDF)
- Activities of The United Methodist Church in the Central Conference of Central and Southern Europe with/for Refugees from Ukraine – Summary of April 21, 2022 [114] (PDF)
- European Baptist Federation Situation Report May 20 [115]