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- 16 May 2013
  02:17
- The Head of the UGCC Addressed Parents of Children who Partook of the Mystery of Holy Reconciliation The preparation of children to their first Reconciliation is perhaps the most visible ministry of catechetical service in Ukrainian Greek-Catholic parishes. According to a statistic released by the catechetical commission of the Archeparchy of Kyiv, nearly 35,000 Ukrainian Catholic children in Ukraine participated in their first reconciliation...
- 16 May 2013
  07:40
- UGCC Commission on Justice and Peace will conduct a cycle of seminars on ethics and economics For two years the UGCC Commission on Justice and Peace organizes meetings, round tables and open lectures by European professionals with student youth of Ukraine. In particular, on May 21-25, 2013, Ukraine will host visitors who are European experts in the field of social responsibility of an enterprise and the ethical parameters of economic...
- 16 May 2013
  07:34
- 120 years have passed since the founding of the first kindergarten by Sisters Servants of the Immaculate Virgin Mary On May 15, 1893, in the village of Zhukel (Sokal region) the first kindertgarten was established at the Monastery of the Congregation of Sister Servants of the Immaculate Virgin Mary. The first educator of this kindergarten was Sr. Arsenia Hordashevska, the sister of Blessed Josaphata Hordashevska, the co-founder of the SSMI Congregation. Prior to that...
- 15 May 2013
  03:05
- UGCC has begun its Marriage Week “This year is the third rime that UGCC in Ukraine is joining in conducting a Marriage Week. As is known, Marriage Week is an international event which is geared towards spreading family values in society. The celebrations began with Mother’s Day and will last until May 19th,” informed Rev. Bohdan Tymchyshyn , head of UGCC Commission on Matters of the Family. ...
- 15 May 2013
  11:39
- UGCC Head made a pastoral visit to the Greek-Catholic Exarchate in Greece On May 10th, His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk) began his pastoral visit to the Greek-Catholic Exarchate in Athens. During these days the Ukrainian community of St. Mykola, which gathers at the Holy Trinity Cathedral, celebrated its 15th anniversary. It is exactly 25 years ago that the Sisters of St. Basil the Great arrived in Athens and established a...
- 15 May 2013
  11:33
- Ivano-Frankivsk held the Sixth Festival of Christ’s city: Hearts Upwards-2013 On Sunday, May 12, 2013, the Sixth Festival of Christ’s city: Hearts Upwards-2013, ended. This event was organized by the UGCC Ivano-Frankivsk Archeparchy Commission on Youth, which traditionally takes place during the festivities of the Day of the City.
- 14 May 2013
  05:49
- Members of the Working Group for the Strategic Development of the UGСС in Brukhovitsi thought about introduction strategy development of Church The Working Group for the Strategic Development of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church for the period until 2020 under the leadership of Most Rev. Ken Nowakowski, Bishop of New Westminster (Canada) and Most Rev. Bohdan Dzyurakh, Secretary General of the Synod of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Bishops....
- 14 May 2013
  02:23
- Over 600 victims of NKVD re-buried in Ivano-Frankivsk region In the Tysmennytsia District of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, on May 9, the victims of the Communist repressions of NKVD of 1939-1941 were reburied.
- 14 May 2013
  02:20
- Meeting of bishops of UGCC in Western Europe discuss preparation for forum of priests With the blessing of Patriarch Sviatoslav (Shevchuk), on 8 May, in the premises of the bishop’s residence of the Eparchy of St. Volodymyr the Great in Paris, a regular meeting of the hierarchs of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in Western Europe was held.
- 14 May 2013
  02:11
- Greek-Catholic Head ‘Our church is a thorn in the side for those who do not seek true unity’ “Reconciliation between our churches will help the Russian and Ukrainian people understand one another. As often happens between neighbors, we have many mutual historical problems, but we cannot build a future without Christian communication. The process of reconciliation will also help overcome Ukrainophobia in Russia and stop the Russification...
- 10 May 2013
  11:09
- “Choice of civilization for Ukraine was already made by Prince Volodymyr – it is the European choice,” His Beatitude Sviatoslav “In his time, Prince Volodymyr, when he decided to become a Christian and when he proposed the Christian faith to the Kyivans, he chose the civilization on the side of Christian Europe. This was a European choice of the Equal to the Apostles Volodymyr. And the first result of this choice was the fact that Prince Yaroslav Mudryi became the father-in- law of...
- 10 May 2013
  11:03
- “We should be on the road that leads to forgiveness and unity,” Roman-Catholic Bishops of Poland Roman-Catholic bishops of Poland, who held their meeting in Czestochowa, decided to prepare together with UGCC an epistle on the occasion of the anniversary of the Volyn Tragedy. From the Polish side, responsible for this communiqué were selected: Metropolitan of Lublin, Stanislaw Budzyka; General Secretary of the Polish Bishops’ Conference,...
- 10 May 2013
  10:59
- The Second Congress of the Laity of UGCC Kyiv-Halych Metropolitanate has begun in Kyiv On May 9, 2013, a Divine Pontifical Liturgy, headed by Bishop Joseph (Milyan) in St. Basil the Great Church in Kyiv, began the work of the Second Congress of the UGCC Kyiv-Halych Metropolitanate Laity on the topic “New Evangelization: its challenges and objectives.”
- 02 May 2013
  12:01
- In Boryspil, there was a presentation of the prisoners art "Transfiguration by the Lord's love" On the 30th of April, in Boryspil, in the Central City Library, with the participation of Mayor Anatoliy Fedorchuk, public of the city, high school students, employees of the regional department of the Criminal Enforcement Inspection and the Department of socio-educational and psychological work with the prisoners of the Boryspil Correctional Camp...
- 02 May 2013
  11:59
- Head of the UGCC had a meeting with the Ambassador of Germany On the 29th of April, His Beatitude Sviatoslav met with Christof Weil, the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany, and with Dirk Lehelt, Cultural Attaché of the Embassy of Germany in Ukraine.

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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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