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18 November 2011
08:00 - Representatives of UGCC Pastoral Missionary Department visit Greece From November 12 to 15, 2011, Pastoral Missionary Department (PMD) chair Bishop Josyf Milyan and an executive secretary Fr. Vasyl Potochnyak visited Athens. On Sunday, Bishop Josyf headed the Hierarchical Liturgy, which was attended by Athens Bishop Dimitri Salachas, who “said a good word...
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18 November 2011
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18 November 2011
07:58 - Myroslav Marynovych on papal encyclicals: Propositions received, but not learned The Catholic Church for a hundred of years has published encyclicals regarding the social aspect of life. However, the encyclicals have not been duly appreciated by the Ukrainian society. Often the encyclicals live their own life and the world its own one, said vice Rector Myroslav Marynovych on...
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18 November 2011
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16 November 2011
11:35 - UGCC Primate: President Viktor Yanukovych continues to show preference for only one denomination The head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Patriarch Sviatoslav, stated that it appears that Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych continues to show preference only to one denomination in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate, and that he openly declares it. The...
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16 November 2011
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16 November 2011
11:32 - We will always remember your support, said Patriarch Sviatoslav at the general session of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops The general session of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is being held on November 14-16, in Baltimore in the United States. On the first day of its activity, the American bishops were addressed by the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Patriarch Sviatoslav,...
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16 November 2011
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16 November 2011
11:31 - UGCC Primate: Today UGC is united more than ever “Our church has no divisions. A division is when some bishops, priests and laity of the UGCC depart from the unity with the Catholic Church. Fortunately, this is not the situation we have in the Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine, so today we are united more than ever,” His Beatitude Sviatoslav, head of...
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16 November 2011
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14 November 2011
09:44 - Head of UGCC Patriarch Sviatoslav visits United States The primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk), went to the United States on a pastoral visit that will last until November 21. Patriarch Sviatoslav will visit Wilmington (Delaware), Philadelphia and Washington. In each city the head of the UGCC...
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14 November 2011
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14 November 2011
09:42 - Retreats held for Ukrainian priests in Spain Spiritual retreats for Ukrainian priests who minister in Spain were held from November 7 to 10, 2011, in the spiritual center of town Guardamar, province of Alicante (Spain), On November 8 Taras Borshchevsky presented the new UGCC Catechism “Christ is Our Easter,” during which he described its...
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14 November 2011
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14 November 2011
09:39 - Dean of Philosophy and Theology Faculty at UCU reported on the need for the development of bioethics in the Ukrainian society at parliamentary hearings Bioethics aims to humanize medicine and law, and to explore and understand the technological development in order to analyze the consequences of its impact on a person's life, the public and solving problems of social justice. That is why bioethics should become a platform for discussion for many...
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14 November 2011
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14 November 2011
09:37 - Young people prepare questions for His Beatitude Sviatoslav “For help for a variety of projects I want to have contact with youth, want them to feel they are heard by the head of the Church,” His Beatitude Sviatoslav, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, said in an interview.
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14 November 2011
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12 November 2011
12:53 - Catechetical missions for Ukrainian immigrants in Spain held in Madrid At the invitation of the Apostolic Visitor for Ukrainians in Italy and Spain, Bishop Dionisiy (Lyakhovych), and pastor of Madrid Fr. Ivan Lypka, the Patriarchal Catechetical Commission and the Catechetical-Pedagogical Institute held a series of events for Ukrainian immigrants in Madrid from...
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12 November 2011
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09 November 2011
08:26 - Three new metropolitanates established in UGCC On November 29 in Lviv, December 13 in Ivano-Frankivsk, December 22 in Ternopil Hierarchical Liturgies will be held, during which the decrees on the establishment of the Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Ternopil-Zboriv metropolitanates of the UGCC. Patriarch Sviatoslav (Shevchuk), Head of the...
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09 November 2011
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08 November 2011
08:27 - On Friday, Eastern Catholic Bishops of Europe discussed topic of this year’s gathering On Friday, November 4, bishops of Eastern Rite Catholic Churches of Europe gathered in Oradea, Romania, to consider the main topic of this year's gathering: “You shall be my witnesses: Evangelization in the Eastern Catholic Churches,” said Bishop Bohdan (Dziurakh), Secretary of the Synod of...
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08 November 2011
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07 November 2011
06:43 - The reflection of the Eastern Catholic Churches on the New Evangelization This time, the annual meeting of the Eastern Catholic bishops in Europe has gathered in Oradea (Romania) about 70 participants, including bishops and experts, at the invitation of the Bishop of Oradea-Mare, H. Ex. Rev. Virgil Bercea. The theme of the meeting was the contribution of the Eastern...
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07 November 2011
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07 November 2011
06:22 - Patriarch Sviatoslav on the illness of Metropolitan Volodymyr “Jesus Christ through his suffering and life-giving death gives our patience special meaning: in conjunction with the suffering of the Savior, they become a means of purification and the way of redemption. These days we pray for the ill Metropolitan Volodymyr. On the one hand ask for his healing,...
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07 November 2011
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05 November 2011
09:51 - UGCC works in the Berezhany youth detention center to address alcohol problems among adolescents For the second year in a row, the subcommittee For a Sober Life works in the Berezhany youth detention center with adolescents who have committed crimes while intoxicated. Sometimes these crimes are related to the alcoholism of their parents. The rehabilitation program is held in a group of up to 12...
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05 November 2011