NEWS of the UGCC news

- 21 February 2014 13:29
- The appeal of the Head of the UGCC With great regret I assert that churches calls to prevent the bloodshed and a peaceful settlement of the conflict have not been heard.
- 19 February 2014 17:30
- “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 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 Ukrainians. ...
- 17 February 2014 14:52
- Installation of the new Exarch of Odesa will take place in April 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.
- 17 February 2014 14:40
- Installation of the Ruling Bishop of Kolomyia-Chernivtsi Eparchy will take place on the third week of Great Lent 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 Christ....
- 16 February 2014 16:00
- UGCC formed a new exarchate and the election of a new bishop has been announced 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.
- 13 February 2014 16:00
- The Head of the UGCC: "At the prayer breakfast we had a unique opportunity to tell the truth about what is happening in Ukraine" "I can tell you honestly that we were listened differently. Some of congressmen and other representatives of the U.S. government, perhaps, hearing about Ukraine, thought: thank God that in America we do not have such problems as in Ukraine, it is good that we are better than they are ... But I purposed to destroy the "pharisaic feeling of superiority",...
- 13 February 2014 13:46
- The official visit of the Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the U.S. is finished. On February 9 the official visit of the Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the USA was finished. The visit, the main purpose of which was to participate in the 62nd National prayer breakfast, started on February 4.
- 11 February 2014 16:03
- UGCC Head to officials of USA: “That which is going on in Ukraine -- sooner or later -- will touch every American If USA and Europe today forsake Ukraine or if they do not have a pro-active policy, then humankind may really stand at the verge of a new Cold War.
- 09 February 2014 16:12
- UGCC Head urged U.S. government to be a negotiator in the settlement of the situation in Ukraine Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk) stated in Washington,DC that the protests in Ukraine are not political but are generated by the choice of the future of the country, and urged U.S. government to be a negotiator in the settlement of today’s situation in Ukraine....
- 09 February 2014 15:14
- Ministry of Social Policy asks for lists of people to distribute 15 tons of humanitarian aid among them For several days Stefan Batrukh, a Greek Catholic priest from Poland, has been trying to get customs clearance for the humanitarian aid for needy Ukrainians. The aid was donated by the Poles to the parish of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Kyiv.
- 08 February 2014 16:08
- UGCC Head held a public prayer for a peaceful settlement of the situation in Ukraine Joining the prayer of the Ukrainian clergy and numerous faithful of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church for peace in Ukraine was also Patriarch Filaret, UOC KP Prelate, who during these days was also in Washington,DC.
- 07 February 2014 15:10
- About the sixty-second session of the Synod of Bishops of Kyiv - Galician Supreme Archbishopric of the UGCC The sixty-second session of the Synod of Bishops of Kyiv-Galician Supreme Archbishopric of the UGCC took place in the recollection and recreation center of Lviv archdiocese of UGCC in Lviv- Bryukhovychi from 31 January to 1 February 2014.
- 06 February 2014 22:16
- "Zhyve.TV" will present quotes from the works of the Metropolitan Andrey (Sheptytskyi) every day in 2014 "Zhyve.TV" initiated a television project lasting for 365 days, where the thoughts and statements of the Metropolitan Andrey (Sheptytskyi) will be cited daily throughout a year. His Beatitude Lyubomyr (Gusar) came up with the idea.
- 06 February 2014 15:37
- Pope Francis:"A statesman speculates neither God’s name nor his people" Do not use God and the people for self-defence in a difficult time, and always choose the way of presenting yourselves to the Lord - called Pope Francis during a homily, spoken in the residence chapel of the "St. Martha’s House" on Monday, February 3, 2014 . In his homily, he described the biblical story about Absalom’s rebellion against his father David....
- 05 February 2014 15:16
- His Beatitude Sviatoslav placed the Ukrainian Country under the Intercession of the Blessed Mother In the Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Mother of the Salesian Community in Lviv today, on February 2nd, the Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Sevchuk), at the request of hundreds of Ukrainians, placed the Ukrainian Country under the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary. ...

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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

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