Traditional Churches of Ukraine in the System of International Interreligious Dialogue

Abstract

International inter-religious dialogue is one of the directions of modern foreign policy of any church. Until recently, the latter was determined by narrow church interests. Due to the changes taking place in the religious sphere, in particular its globalization, which itself responds to the challenges of today, the field of external interests of the church extends to single-religious (say, the danger of non-religious proselytism) or even all-religious (for example, shared threat) clean water or planetary warming). Therefore, the list of tasks defined as elements of the church's international activity includes not only spiritual guardianship and protection of their believers abroad, missionary work among unbelievers and non-believers, pastoral visits to the diaspora, but also friendly communication with the brotherly churches, contacts with theologians spiritual leaders of other religions, consultations with prominent statesmen and public figures, scholars, politicians, representation in international interreligious associations, etc.