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- Bishop Bohdan (Dziurakh) met with the Apostolic Nuncio of the European Union 27 February 2014 16:20 In Brussels a meeting took place between Bishop Bohdan (Dziurakh), Secretary of UGCC Synod of Bishops, and the Apostolic Nuncio of the European Union, Archbishop S.E. Mons. Alain Paul Lebeaupin, and the General Director of the Department of Crisis Response of the Office of External Relations of...
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- Bishop Bohdan (Dziurakh): “The fallen heroes themselves stopped the evil so that it would not touch all of us” 27 February 2014 16:16 “Today our hearts are full of pain, sorrow, and prayers. We look today at the faces of our friends, brothers and sisters - verified by their love. Because it is due to the love towards God and the native land, that they gave their lives. In studying the faces of our co-patriots, we ask ourselves, what...
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27 February 2014
14:58 - Vatican prayed for Ukraine February 24th, in the afternoon, in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk), the Head of the UGCC, led the Prayer for peace and the united Ukraine. The Prayer was held on the initiative of the Embassy of Ukraine at the Holy See with representatives of the diplomatic...
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27 February 2014
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- "Now our challenge is to overcome hatred of our own", – His Beatitude at the meeting with the Ukrainian community in Rome 26 February 2014 16:27 February 23 , His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk) , who came to the Vatican to attend the meetings of the Synod of Bishops, met with Ukrainian immigrants from various cities in Italy.
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- " We do not know when it's God's judgment, but we know that the time to do good comes about" – His Beatitude Sviatoslav in Rome 26 February 2014 16:10 On Sunday , February 23, 2014, His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk), the Father and the Head of the UGCC, served a Pontifical Divine Liturgy in Saint Sophia Basilica in Rome.
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- " We do not know when it's God's judgment, but we know that the time to do good comes about", – His Beatitude Sviatoslav in Rome 26 February 2014 16:06 The Mass at which a large congregation of the faithful of Rome and other Italian cities gathered, took place in an atmosphere of national mourning and remembrance of fallen these days on the streets of Kyiv and other cities of Ukraine. It is reported by the "Vatican Radio"....
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25 February 2014
16:23 - In Austria prayers will be said for the innocent killed in Ukraine Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, Archbishop of Vienna and the Ordinary for Byzantine Rite faithful in Austria, is presently in Rome at the meeting of the Consistory of Cardinals. He issued a call to all priests and faithful of the Byzantine Rite in Austria to hold public prayers for the Ukrainian...
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25 February 2014
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- Appeal for a prayer for Ukraine to all Christians 22 February 2014 12:27 This Sunday Pray for Ukraine!
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- “A priest does not have the right to make political speeches or to be a leader of political actions. Yet, he should not abandon his faithful!” 21 February 2014 17:21 Dear Hierarchs and Priests! Together with you, I am pained by all the wounds inflicted on our people and I support your priestly zeal and closeness to your flock. Given the dramatic situation in our country, I want to remind all of you of the fundamental norms of serving as a priest....
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- "We need to cool " hot head " and return to peaceful resistance, which is a productive way of confrontation between good and evil ..." - The Head of UGCC 21 February 2014 13:31 Maidan deaths shocked the whole Ukrainian society and to some extent "sobered" it... violence is never a constructive way to solve problems. There is an important moral norm: the end does not justify the means of achieving it, because it is impossible to reach a holy purpose by criminal means,...
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- “Freedom and dignity is given to us not by a president but by law. These values are given to us by God…” UGCC Head in Kyiv 19 February 2014 17:30 On February 16th, the Sunday of the Prodigal Son, UGCC Father and Head His Beatitude Sviatoslav during the sermon at the Divine Liturgy in the UGCC Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ related that today we are experiencing a special moment of rediscovering the dignity of...
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- Installation of the new Exarch of Odesa will take place in April 17 February 2014 14:52 On April 7th, the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Mother, in the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Kyiv ( 5 Mykilsko-Slobidska St.) the Rite of Ordination as an Archbishop of Mykhailo Bubniy,CSSR, will take place.
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- Installation of the Ruling Bishop of Kolomyia-Chernivtsi Eparchy will take place on the third week of Great Lent 17 February 2014 14:40 On Saturday, April 22, 2014, on the day commemorating the forty martyrs who were tortured in the Sevastiy Lake in Kolomyia, the Rite of Installation of the new Ruling Bishop of the UGCC Kolomyia–Chernivtsi Eparchy, Bishop Vasyl (Ivasiuk), will take place in the Cathedral of the Transfiguration of...
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- UGCC formed a new exarchate and the election of a new bishop has been announced 16 February 2014 16:00 On Thursday, November 13, 2014, the Vatican announced that the Holy Father, considering the division of the UGCC Odesa-Crimea Exarchate and the naming of the present UGCC Exarch of Odesa-Crimea Bishop Vasyl (Ivasiuk) as the Eparch of UGCC Kolomyia-Chernivtsi....