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29 November 2010
11:27 - A Necessary and Solemn Commemoration In August and October of 1932 and January of 1933, Joseph Stalin, ruler of the Soviet Union, ordered increased mandatory quotas of foodstuffs to be shipped out of Ukraine and to other states of the Soviet Union. This was done until there was no food remaining in Ukraine, known as the breadbasket of...
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29 November 2010
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29 November 2010
11:22 - Exhibition about the underground of UGCC moved to Chervonohrad On November 25, the exhibition "Toward the Light of Resurrection through the Thorns of Catacombs" opened in the Chervonohrad branch (Potocki Palace) of the Lviv History of Religion Museum. The exhibition is dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church’s emergence...
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29 November 2010
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29 November 2010
11:20 - Ukrainian World Congress sends letters to Kharkiv mayor and Ukrainian president to restore memorial plaque to Josyf Slipyj On November 25, the Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) sent a letter to Kharkiv Mayor Gennady Kernes and copies to President Viktor Yanukovych and Verkhovna Rada chair Volodymyr Lytvyn urging for the restoration of the memorial plaque honoring Patriarch Josyf Slipyj, which has been dismantled from...
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29 November 2010
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25 November 2010
07:21 - Director of the Institute of Church History: On the arrival of the Germans Sheptytsky pinned his hopes on the future of Ukraine, not on Nazi Germany During the German occupation, the Ukrainian government had to adhere to God's laws and recognize the equality of everyone before the civil law. According to Metropolitan Sheptytsky, these were two elements of just orders and wise leadership, which the Christians had to obey. The hidden meaning...
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25 November 2010
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25 November 2010
07:19 - Meeting with Ukrainian Greek Catholic pastors in Austria With the blessing of the head of the UGCC Patriarch Lubomyr, on November 22, 2010, in Vienna, Austria, a work meeting of the head of the Pastoral Missionary Department (PMD) Bishop Joseph (Milyan) with the UGCC pastors in Austria was held. The delegation included Secretary General Fr. Vasyliy...
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25 November 2010
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25 November 2010
07:17 - Bishops of UGCC and RCC in Ukraine discuss problem of religious sects The regular meeting of bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and the Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine took place on November 22-23 in Lviv. The main theme of the meeting was the problems of religious sects, which are felt by today's Christians. The bishops stressed that reducing the...
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25 November 2010
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25 November 2010
07:15 - Greek Catholic and Orthodox hierarchs of the USA and Canada jointly appealed to the Ukrainian on the occasion of 77th anniversary of Holodomor In a joint pastoral letter "The call to prayer and living voice of justice,” the hierarchy of the Ukrainian Churches in North America write that we must remember the more than 7 million innocent men, women, and children who simply tried to protect themselves from the violent politics of Soviet...
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25 November 2010
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25 November 2010
07:14 - Patriarch Lubomyr’s third audio book recorded in Kyiv The third audio book of the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) Patriarch Lubomyr, "The Path to God," has recently been recorded in of Kyiv's studios. The recording will continue a series of talks with the head of the UGCC, which began with his first two audio books "The Road to Oneself"...
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25 November 2010
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18 November 2010
04:27 - Patriarch Lubomyr: ‘We are not looking for conventional solutions, but a way which the Lord God would want us to go’ On November 14, with a thanksgiving liturgy in the Annunciation of the Holy Mother Cathedral in Kyiv, the Congress of the Laity of Central, Eastern, and Southern Ukraine came to an end. The congress was attended by representatives and exarches of the Kyiv Archeparchy, the Donetsk-Kharkiv...
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18 November 2010
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18 November 2010
04:23 - ‘For a long time monasticism was considered bloodless martyring,’ Patriarch Lubomyr about the role of monasticism in the life of the Church On November 10, a meeting of the Commission on Matters of Monasticism and heads of monastic orders and congregations of the UGCC with the head of the UGCC Patriatch Lubomyr was held. The meeting was attended by Bishop Taras (Senkiv), apostolic administrator of the Stryj Eparchy responsible for the...
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18 November 2010
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12 November 2010
10:59 - Educational courses for priests of Ternopil-Zboriv Eparchy Two hundred twenty priests of the Eparchy of Ternopil-Zboriv are attending educational courses. These pastors, who are in their second year of studies, deepen their knowledge of the history of the Ukrainian Church, dogmatic theology, the Holy Scripture, and liturgy....
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12 November 2010
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12 November 2010
10:58 - Patriarch Lubomyr: The time of persecution was a time of blessing! Our Church was destroyed twice, but it has survived On November 10, Patriarch Lubomyr, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, arrived in Zhytomyr to speak with locals about the 4th Social Days of the UGCC. "Our Church has begun its so-called Social Days, which aims to draw the attention of the faithful to social values. After all, our...
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12 November 2010
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