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- 04 March 2017 13:53
- The Head of the UGCC: "Among our migrant workers I didn't meet traitors of Ukraine" "I want to say that among those people that rally around our churches, our parishes abroad, I didn't see traitors of Ukraine." This was said by the Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church His Beatitude Sviatoslav during the live interactive program "Open Church" on the topic of "Emigration." ...
- 03 March 2017 13:16
- After visit to Avdiyivka, UGCC bishop tells about the daunting daily life of frontline residents Recently, Bishop Stepan Meniok, Donetsk Exarch of the UGCC, with the blessing of His Beatitude Sviatoslav, head of the UGCC, visited Avdiyivka with a team of CF Caritas, where previously the households suffered severe damages from shelling in the old part of the cit
- 02 March 2017 21:28
- Head of UGCC expressed his condolences to relatives and fellows of victims at mine in Hlukhiv Today happened a horrible tragedy that took away lives of our eight citizens. On this occasion, I express my condolences to the families of victims and promise my unity in prayer. I pray in intention of the newly departed, so that God be merciful to them and settle them “where is no pain and grief, but eternal and everlasting life”. I ask for endurance and God’s...
- 28 February 2017 12:28
- UGCC clergy invited Pope Francis to Zarvanytsya - Ukrainian Marian pilgrimage site On February 26, Pope Francis received the delegates of Ternopil-Zboriv Archdiocese of the UGCC, Fr Volodymyr Firman, Rector of the Marian Spiritual Center ‘Zarvanytsya’ and Fr. Roman Dutchak, the judicial vicar of Ternopil-Zboriv Archdiocese.
- 28 February 2017 10:42
- The Head of the UGCC to the Ukrainians in Canada: «Ukraine has been bleeding for three years now but she's still alive…» It's God's Providence that at such remarkable, deep moment of Liturgical Year, the Bishops of the Constant Synod, which is the highest body of governance of our Church, have arrived in Toronto UGCC eparchy. Today the Bishops went out to different eparchial parishes in order not only to pray in various places, but to learn you better, hear about your joys and...
- 27 February 2017 12:33
- The Permanent Synod of the UGCC visited the Ukrainian parish in Niagara A message of compassion and awareness was spread during a visit to Niagara from the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, informs wellandtribune.ca.
- 22 February 2017 17:24
- Vatican to Security Council: enforce Ukraine ceasefire The Vatican on Tuesday said “all necessary steps should be taken to enforce the ceasefire and to implement the measures agreed upon” in Ukraine, Vatican Radio inform
- 18 February 2017 00:43
- The Head of the UGCC together with Bishops was praying on the birthday of Patriarch Josyph Slipyj in his family house in Zazdrist' Today we all together have arrived at the place, where 125 years ago a great teacher and sanctifier of our Church - Patriarch Josyph Slipyj came to this world. In this solemn Liturgy we want to thank for the gift of such a great man, leader and teacher of our Church and our people, for the gift of the ethnarch, father of the nation, who at the times of persecutions...
- 17 February 2017 12:19
- Head of UGCC encouraged faithful to reading “Precept” of patriarch Josef and rewarded with medals institutions left in inheritance by him To honor patriarch Josef Slipyi means to know and share his heritage. I encourage the faithful of our Church to read “Precept” by patriarch, so it might become a manifesto, a road map of UGCC life in a modern society.
- 16 February 2017 12:34
- In the jubilee year of Patriarch Josef Head of UGCC recommends to think about “who we are and what is our role” Life of patriarch Josef, as well as our owns, wasn’t a straight way but rather a labyrinth, where each decision is important. Since with every single turn one might mislead, choosing the wrong way.
- 15 February 2017 14:03
- The Head of the UGCC: "From a wrongdoer one can become a law-abiding citizen" It's important to help imprisoned people not only in jail but also help them reintegrate, return to the free world. This was said by the Father and Head of the UGCC His Beatitude Sviatoslav during the live TV program "Open Church", devoted to prison chaplaincy. "All of us must believe - both the society and the imprisoned, that it is possible to change one's...
- 13 February 2017 16:26
- Head of the UGCC urged the faithful to pray for Ukraine Father and the Head of the UGCC appealed to all the faithful on Ukrainian religious pilgrimage which took place in Drohobych on February 11.
- 09 February 2017 16:23
- Head of UGCC met up with Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine February 7, 2017 Father and Head of UGCC His Beatitude Sviatoslav met up with Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin on the request of the second one.
- 07 February 2017 18:28
- His Beatitude Sviatoslav: "The Ukrainian power hasn't fully estimated the importance of relations with Vatican for national interests yet" Unfortunately I don't see today a clear strategy for development of relations between Ukraine and Vatican. The state policy is beyond the competence and influence of the Church, although it doesn't mean that we cannot have our own civil position in this matter. And we speak out on it. Someone might even think that we do it too often and too courageously. If we...
- 06 February 2017 13:16
- His Beatitude Sviatoslav during the reburial of Bishop Ivan (Marhitych): "Unity is the word of Bishop Ivan addressed to us" The Head and Father of the UGCC his Beatitude Sviatoslav took part in reburial of the remains of Bishop Ivan (Marhitych) known as the "people's Bishop" in the village of Borzhavske Vynohradivsky district, Zakarpatska obl. on February 4, 2017.

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We can imagine what the prayer of the prisoners in the Russian torture centers in the Ukrainian Kharkiv region was like – Head of the UGCC on the 206th day of the war 17 September

A vast cemetery, a mass burial, was found near the city of Izyum, in which more than 400 innocently killed and tortured people have already been...

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