NEWS of the UGCC news

- 23 April 2015 12:14
- Head of the UGCC expressed solidarity with the Armenians On the eve of commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, His Beatitude Sviatoslav expressed his solidarity and prayer support to Head of Armenian Christians - His Holiness Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II, Head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, His Beatitude Patriarch and Nerses Bedros XIX...
- 22 April 2015 10:03
- The Head of the UGCC: “Churches and religious organizations must play the main role in reconciliation in Ukraine” The Head and Father of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, His Beatitude Sviatoslav stressed on it, speaking at the international conference in Kyiv “Reconciliation in Ukraine and the future of Europe”, organized by Ukrainian Catholic University, held on 21st of April.
- 21 April 2015 15:06
- Natalia Popovych and Anatoliy Yurkevych – new UCU Senators According to Protocol №40 of the meeting of UCU Senate, held on February 13-14, 2015, and with the agreement of the Grand Chancellor of Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU), His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk), Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halych, Natalia Popovych (President of PRP Group in Ukraine, Russia, Azerbaijan and other SND countries, the...
- 21 April 2015 15:00
- The Head of the UGCC to the brothers of Taizé: “On your returning home tell everyone that Ukrainians are on their way to the freedom and dignity” “This year, in Ukraine we are celebrating Easter in a special way because we experience this Easter joy among pain and war grief. We are confident, the resurrected Christ are with us. He is Our Easter Lamb of a New Testament”.
- 20 April 2015 14:59
- The Head of the UGCC His Beatitude Sviatoslav met with the US delegation His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk) in one of the offices of the UGCC in Kyiv received the American delegation headed by the chairman of the Association of US Congressmen Jim Slattery.
- 20 April 2015 10:21
- The Head of the UGCC: “To get peace, you have to believe in the risen Jesus Christ” If we compare the disciples after the crucifixion of their Savior with all of us today, we can see a lot in common. Today we are afraid, we are frightened when we hear about the war years, tears and suffering; each of us feels instinctively that tomorrow I might be the next. That was said by the Father and the Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church His...
- 19 April 2015 11:04
- The Head of the UGCC expressed His condolences on the death of Sister Theodosia His Beatitude Sviatoslav, the Head of the UGCC, expressed his condolences to Reverend Sisters of Holy Resurrection Monastery of St. Joseph in Saskatoon (Canada) on the death of Sister Theodosia.
- 18 April 2015 10:34
- His Beatitude Sviatoslav expressed his sympathy with going into eternity in loving memory of father Vasyl Potochnyak In particular, in a compassionate letter is said: “today, with a strong sadness, we happened to know about going into eternity a great apostle of pastoral care of migrants from our Church – in loving memory of father Vasyl Potochnyak.
- 18 April 2015 10:09
- The Head of the UGCC met with a Belarus Christian Democrats On 17th of April 2015 His Beatitude met with a representatives of Christian democrats from Belarus – Paul Sevyaryncev and George Dmytruk.
- 16 April 2015 16:45
- "Chaplain – is a visible sign of God's power and grace for the military..." - the Head of the UGCC The presence of the UGCC chaplains in the Ukrainian army is intended to protect the military from all the evil. For it is difficult to remain human in inhuman conditions. It is not easy to fulfill their duty - to defend their homeland when it is difficult to implement. The task of the chaplain – is to help the person to show his best mental traits in difficult...
- 14 April 2015 22:46
- «Getting rid of paternalism is a prerequisite of the one local Orthodox Church» - UGCC Head Unification of the Churches is impossible without religious freedom. A necessary element of religious freedom is the church-state partner relations. Whenever a state, even our own, wants to use the church for their political goals, it commits violence over it. The principle of non-interference into the church life is a prerequisite for its...
- 13 April 2015 11:10
- The Head of the UGCC on Easter: “To Celebrate Easter during the war means to see our victory in a resurrected Christ” I wish all of you to rejoice in a resurrected Christ, for this joy comes not from our infirmities and annoyances but from God. May this Easter joy pay a visit to every Ukrainian family, and those, who celebrate Easter with a whistle and whine of bullets and strikes of missiles may be filled with this joy, too. To celebrate Easter during the war means to see our...
- 07 April 2015 12:39
- The Head of the UGCC called for a truce for the Easter holidays The Father and the Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church His Beatitude Sviatoslav supported the call of the Special Monitoring Comission of OSCE in Ukraine for a truce for the Easter holidays.
- 02 April 2015 22:29
- The Head of the UGCC thanked Pauline Fathers for praying about peace in Ukraine The Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church His Beatitude Sviatoslav thanked Pauline fathers on Jasna Gora Monastery (Our Lady of Częnstochowa Shrine at Jasna Gora Monastery) for praying about peace in Ukraine that they had started from the first Sunday of a Lent 2015.
- 02 April 2015 12:39
- UCU student fraternity invites youth from Eastern and Southern Ukraine for Easter For the fifth consecutive year the UCU student fraternity invites guests from other regions in Ukraine to celebrate Easter together. This year the project will take place from April 10-13. During four days students and guests from southern and eastern Ukraine will have the opportunity to make new friends, learn many new things about the history of Lviv,...

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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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