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 (PDF)
- Patriarch Kirill of Moscow
- All-Ukrainian Council of Churches
- Pope Francis
- Metropolitan Jozef Stanewski, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Minsk
Statements issued after the onset of war:
- Epiphany, Metropolitan of Kyiv - autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine
- Onuphriy, Metropolitan of Kyiv - Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate
- Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
- Patriarch Kirill of Moscow
- Patriarch Elias of Georgia
- Archbishop Tikhon of the Orthodox Church in America
- European Bishops of ROCOR
- American ROCOR
- Vladimir, Metropolitan of Chișinău and all Moldova (Russian Orthodox Church)
- Metropolitan Veniamin of Minsk, Belarusian Orthodox Church, Moscow Patriarchate
- Patriarch Daniel of Romania
- Orthodox Church of Greece - Abp. Ieronomyus
- Bishop Neophytos of Nyeri and Mt Kenya, African Orthodox Church of Kenya (PDF)
- Archbishop Svyatoslav of Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church
- Conference of Catholic Bishops in Russia
- Cardinal Parolin, Holy See
- Gintaras Grušas, chief of CCEE
- Stanisław Gądecki, chief of Conference of Catholic Bishops in Poland
- Aleh Butkevich, chief of Conference of Catholic Bishops in Belarus
- Russian Baptist Union
- Belarusian Pentecostal Union
- World Council of Churches calls for an end to armed hostilities
- World Council of Churches urges Putin to restore peace
- Belarusian Christian Vision Group statement
- Archbishops of Canterbury and York statement
- CEC, WCRC, LWF, WMC
- European Ecumenical Peace movement: Church and Peace
- Church of Scotland calls for ceasefire
- Church of Scotland Prayer for Peace
- Polish Ecumenical Council English, German, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian
- French News Article by Constantin Sigov
- The Consistory of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland
- The Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland
- The bishops of the Orthodox Church of Finland (PDF)
- Statement of Estonian Council of Churches (PDF)
- Open Letter to Patriarch Kyrill from president of the Mennonite World Conference
- Women’s Appeal for Peace from former Yugoslavia (PDF)
- International Association for Religious Freedom, an association of the Remonstrant Church
- The Council for Religious and Life Stance Communities in Norway (PDF)
- Peace Appeal of the Finnish Ecumenical Council (PDF)
- Othodox Autocephalous Church of Albania
- The Czechoslovak Hussite Church
- The Bishop Council of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church, Czech, English (PDF)
- Open letter to the church leaders in Russia from the Czech Republic, Czech, Russian (PDF), English (PDF)
- Appeal of the clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church
- Priests of the Moscow Patriarchate call for an end to the war (KathPress)
- Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church (PDF)
- Standing Committee of the National Ecumenical Council of Churches in Austria (PDF)
- International Ecumenical Fellowship (PDF)
- Conference of European Churches
- Friends World Committee for Consultation
- Statement from Russian Orthodox priests
- Christian Council of Norway
- European Baptist Federation Situation Report 11 March
- Council of Churches in Netherlands Dutch, English (PDF)
- Religions for Peace Press Release
- The Bishops’ Conference of Church of Norway, Norwegian, English
- Friends World Committee For Consultation: Christian's Say No To War (in Russian, Ukrainian and English)
- Pax Christi International - Ukraine: An opportunity for a Just Peace
- WSCF-Europe solidarity statement (PDF)
- H.B. Archbishop Ieronymos of the Church of Greece to Patriarch Kirill, English, Greek
- Communauté de l'Arche (PDF)
- Finnish Lutheran bishops’ appeal
- Finnish Lutheran Archbishop's statement
- Chair of the Council of the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD), Präses Dr h.c. Annette Kurschus
- Council of Churches in the Netherlands
- A Declaration on the "Russian World" (Russkii mir) Teaching from the Orthodox Christian Studies Center (including petition)
- ACT’s Europe Forum appeal
- European Baptist Federation Situation Report 17 March
- President of the Seventh-day Adventist World Church, Ted N.C. Wilson - Call to Prayer
- The Russian Evangelical Alliance - Letter from General Secretary Vitaly Vlasenko
- Adventistische Kirchenleitungen in Deutschland, der Schweiz und weltweit
- CECEF Appel pour la paix en Ukraine (PDF)
- Federation protestante de France, Letter from president Pasteur François Clavairoly, French (PDF), Russian (PDF)
- COMECE: President of the EU Bishops, Cardinal Hollerich, letter to Moscow Patriarch Kirill (see Press Release here)
- Statement from 12 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates posted on IPPNW Responds to Crisis in Ukraine (Sign petition here)
- Statement from Estonian Council of Churches and the leaders of its member churches
- The Interreligious and Interconvictional Dialogue Committee with the Council of Europe, French (PDF), English (PDF)
- Joint Statement from CEC-CCEE English (PDF), French(PDF), Italian (PDF), Greek (PDF)
- Stellungnahme der Kirchenkonferenz zum Krieg in der Ukraine (Statement from the Conference of the member churches of the Protestant Church in Germany) English (PDF)
- European Baptist Federation Situation Report 24 March
- Appeals from Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations
- CPCE Statement on the War on Ukraine (includes English, German, French on the page, Estonian, Italian separately)
- European Baptist Federation Situation Report April 14
- Iona Community Call to Peace with Justice, including an invitation to three ‘Global Gatherings for Peace’ on 7, 21, and 28 April.
- European Baptist Federation Situation Report April 21
- 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 (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 (PDF)
- European Baptist Federation Situation Report May 20
- A common statement of Archbishop Tapio Luoma (the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland) and Archbishop Leo (the Orthodox Church of Finland)
- EBF Update on Ukraine - September 8