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- A Greeting Letter to Pope Francis on the occasion of the First Anniversary of His Pontificate 17 March 2014 16:25 Holy Father, March 13th of this year marks the first anniversary of Your Pontificate. All of God’s people with great joy recall that day when an Archbishop from Buenos Aires -- almost from the “end of the world” -- was called upon by God to fulfill the service of Apostle Peter....
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- Rev. Mykola Kvych was abducted by “law enforcing forces of Crimea.” They just freed him. A court session is scheduled in two weeks. 16 March 2014 14:45 UGCC priest Mykola Kvych was freed by “law enforcing forces of Crimea.” He was accused of administrative violations. He was suspected of organizing provocations. Rev. Mykola categorically denied this accusation. He informed that he will continue to stay in Crimea with his faithful. ...
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- UGCC Head urged all faithful to pray for those who do us wrong 16 March 2014 10:27 This morning His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk), UGCC Father and Head, led the Pontifical Divine Liturgy in the Cathedral of St. Sophia in Rome. He urged Christians during the Great Lent to increased prayer “for the enemy and for all who today are harming the Ukrainian people and are spreading...
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- UGCC Head asks bishops to prepare their priests for providing spiritual assistance to those who suffered on the Maidan 15 March 2014 19:42 The Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk) during the time of the Great Lent, when many Greek-Catholic faithful are preparing for the Sacrament of Penance, asked UGCC bishops to exigently prepare their priests for spiritually guiding those...
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- Greek Catholic Priest abducted By pro-Russian armed forces in Crimea 15 March 2014 18:52 The abduction occurred on Saturday March 15, between 10:00-11:00 AM, in Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsula in Ukraine. Pro-Russian armed forces abducted Fr. Mykola Kvych, a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest, directly from the Ukrainian Greek Catholic parish of the Dormition of the Mother of...
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- The Head of the UGCC greeted Pope Francis with the first anniversary of the pontificate 15 March 2014 16:21 "The whole people of God with great joy recalls the day when the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, "almost from the end of the world", was called by the Lord to fulfill the ministry of the Apostle Peter," - writes in a letter of greeting to the Holy Father Francis, Pope, His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk),...
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- The Head of the UGCC led prayers for Ukraine at the Tomb of St. Peter 15 March 2014 14:43 Saturday morning, His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk), the Head of the UGCC, presided at the Divine Liturgy near the Tomb of the Apostle Peter at the Vatican (at the Chapel of Pope St. Clement VIII). Joining the Primate of the UGCC in prayer for a Sovereign Ukraine, were the Ambassadors to the Holy...
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- His Beatitude Sviatoslav met with the Minister of Defence of Ukraine 15 March 2014 12:23 March 12, 2014, His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk) met with Minister of Defence of Ukraine Igor Tenyukh. The event was held at the request of the Church. There were also Bishop Mykhaylo (Koltun), the Head of the Pastoral Department of the power structure of the UGCC Patriarchal Curia and Fr....
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- His Beatitude Sviatoslav invites youth to participate in a pilgrimage to the Maidanek Concentration Camp 14 March 2014 12:21 On April 11th, before Palm Sunday, under the banner “Let us strengthen faith through the testimony of the martyrs”, the annual pilgrimage to the Majdanek Concentration Camp (Poland) will take place. Majdanek is the site of the incarceration and the martyrdom of Blessed Omelian Kovch, the Patron...