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- 04 March 2014 16:50
- UGCC Head asks world religious leaders to make their contribution toward a peaceful solution to the situation in Ukraine “We appeal to you to be united with us at this difficult time when the army of the Russian Federation, breaching all treaties, has invaded the sovereign territory of Ukraine. There is no discrimination in our country with regard to language, nationality or religion. Our deep and sincere desire lies in the establishment and amelioration of our fraternal and...
- 04 March 2014 16:46
- UGCC Head: “During Great Lent we will especially remember the martyrs of the Heavenly Hundred” In contemplating the pure sacrifice of the Heavenly Hundred and the dedication of hundreds of thousands of people, each one of us should dream in a different way about our life: to search in our consciousness and our essence the sacramental greatness, to open our life to others--God and our neighbor, to cleanse ourselves of all that weighs us down and leads to...
- 04 March 2014 16:26
- His Beatitude Sviatoslav: “One should be ready for economic sacrifices” The Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk) in the Pastoral Epistle on the occasion of the beginning of Great Lent, urged Ukrainians to be ready for complex economic times.
- 03 March 2014 14:53
- "We must use all the possibilities for the peaceful regulating of the conflict ... but not at the cost of Unification of Ukraine", - the Head of the UGCC The direct intervention of the neighbouring armed forces to Ukraine began. Our country is involved in a military conflict. I think that the entire world community is on the side of Ukraine, as neighbouring Russia is the aggressor.
- 03 March 2014 14:26
- Pope Francis calls for dialogue and peace in Ukraine On Sunday, March 2, 2014, Pope Francis after the recitation of prayer "Angelus" appealed to Ukrainian society and the international community to "support every initiative for dialogue and reconciliation," - reported the Vatican Radio.
- 03 March 2014 13:33
- UGCC faithful are praying for the Crimean Exarchate and the preservation of unity and sovereignty in Ukraine. During these days we are praying for peace and safety for all residents of the Crimea Peninsula, especially for the clergy and spiritual servants and laity of our Crimean Exarchate. We ask them to remember that behind their shoulders stands a great Church, which right now is together with them.
- 27 February 2014 16:20
- Bishop Bohdan (Dziurakh) met with the Apostolic Nuncio of the European Union 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 the European Parliament, Agostino Miozzo....
- 27 February 2014 16:16
- Bishop Bohdan (Dziurakh): “The fallen heroes themselves stopped the evil so that it would not touch all of us” “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 assignment are they delegating to us, what testament have they...
- 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 corps and the Ukrainian community of Rome....
- 26 February 2014 16:27
- "Now our challenge is to overcome hatred of our own", – His Beatitude at the meeting with the Ukrainian community in Rome 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.
- 26 February 2014 16:10
- " 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 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.
- 26 February 2014 16:06
- " 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 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".
- 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 people. In Austria they will pray for the innocent killed in...
- 21 February 2014 17:21
- “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!” 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.
- 21 February 2014 13:31
- "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 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, fraud, lies, murder or private ambition....

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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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