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- 23 February 2013
  09:10
- UGCC Head: “We are a people whose history has been stolen” For us, Ukrainians, to be ourselves means to build “a Ukrainian world”. “A Ukrainian world” is a world of free people, a people born more than a millennium ago during the Baptism of Rus-Ukraine. The Primate of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk) stated this in an interview with the Russian edition of Nezavisimaya...
- 19 February 2013
  11:19
- Unique collection of Ukrainian icons on glass now on display at UCU The Ukrainian Catholic University opened an exhibition of ancient Hutsul and Pokuttian icons on glass, which were presented to the university by the famous Ukrainian collector Ivan Hrechko. The first 50 items will be the basis for the future UCU museum. This is the largest collection of Ukrainian icons on glass from the mid-19th to the early 20th century....
- 19 February 2013
  11:16
- Bishops of the Permanent Synod attended a conference with monastic orders of the Kyiv Archeparchy On February 15th after a celebratory Divine Liturgy to mark the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple, a conference took place during which UGCC Head His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk) and members of the Permanent Synod of Bishops met with representatives of Greek-Catholic monastic orders of the Kyiv Archeparchy. ...
- 19 February 2013
  11:14
- His Beatitude Sviatoslav on the Presentation of the Lord: “Remember that your children are first of all the children of God” Today, on the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple, the Primate of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk) led the Divine Liturgy in St. Basil the Great Church in Kyiv.
- 19 February 2013
  11:08
- UGCC Bishops visit Apostolic Nunciature in Kyiv On February 18, 2013, members of UGCC Permanent Synod of Bishops visited the Apostolic Nunciature in Kyiv. The bishops informed Archbishop Thomas Edward Gullickson, Apostolic Nuncio in Ukraine, of the results of their deliberations on the realization of the International All-Church Pilgrimage to the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of...
- 18 February 2013
  03:26
- CF "Caritas-Ternopil" held a campaign for the Day of a Patient On the 11th of February this year, the Ternopil Charitable Foundation "Caritas" held an annual campaign for the Day of Patient. This event took place in the local Children's Hospital of Ternopil.
- 18 February 2013
  03:23
- The first ski competition for priests and for students of the educational institutions of the UGCC named after the blessed Josaphat Kotsylovs'kyj On the 28th of February 2013, at the "Bukovel" ski resort, there will be taking place the Ski competitions in Giant Slalom for priests and for students of educational institutions of the UGCC named after the blessed Josaphat Kotsylovs'kyj. The aim of this competition is to promote a healthy lifestyle through an example of clergy. The event is being...
- 15 February 2013
  04:06
- “Having pronounced the Year of Faith, You -- in your humble act -- gave all of us an incredible lesson in faith,” UGCC Head to Pope Benedict XVI With great sadness and emotion, the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church accepted the news of Your relinquishing of the throne of Roman Pope Benedict XVI, stated UGCC Head, His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk) in his letter.
- 15 February 2013
  04:03
- UGCC Permanent Synod of Bishops announced the date of the blessing of the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Kyiv According to the decision of UGCC Permanent Synod of Bishops, now taking place in Kniazhych near Kyiv, the blessing of the Patriarchal Cathedral in Kyiv will take place on August 18, 2013 during the International All-Church Pilgrimage to the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Kyiv to celebrate the 1025th anniversary of the Baptism of...
- 14 February 2013
  08:23
- “One cannot speak of the existence of a civil society in a totalitarian system” - UGCC Head UGCC Head, His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk), met on February 8th with representatives of the Alliance of Christian Professionals at St. Basil the Great Church in Kyiv.
- 14 February 2013
  08:18
- In March, there will be held an annual youth pilgrimage to Majdanek On the 22nd of March, there will be held the annual youth pilgrimage to Majdanek (Lublin, Poland) - to the place of the imprisonment and the martyrdom of Blessed hieromartyr Omelyan Kovch. On the occasion of the Year of Faith, it will be held under the slogan: "Let us strengthen the faith through the testimony of the martyrs"....
- 14 February 2013
  10:34
- UGCC Head met with the Head of the Kyiv City State Administration (KCSA) and agreed on cooperative efforts On February 8th, a meeting took place between the Primate of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk) and the Head of the Kyiv City State Administration (KCSA) Oleksandr Popov. “For our Church, this was a historical meeting, since the last meeting of our Church Primate happened some five years ago. At that time the mayor...
- 14 February 2013
  10:31
- UGCC Head wished the students of the Kyiv Spiritual Seminary “strength of the Holy Spirit, perception of God’s mysteries and the gift of the word.” On February 11th, the Feast of the Three Saints: Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, and John Chrysostom, the UGCC Kyiv Spiritual Seminary of Three Saints celebrated its feast day.
- 14 February 2013
  10:29
- UGCC Head visits the parish of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin in Irpin, Kyiv region On February 10th, His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk) , UGCC Head, visited the parish of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin in Irpen, Kyiv region, in order to “simply pray together as a family with the local Greek-Catholics.”
- 06 February 2013
  03:14
- UGCC will celebrate a Day of Religious Persons UGCC Patriarchal Commission on Matters of Monasticism announced that this year’s celebration of the Day of Religious Persons will begin on February 14th with Evening Vespers and a Litany, to be followed by a conference with the participation of Bishop Benedict (Aleksiychuk), Auxiliary Bishop of the Lviv UGCC Archeparchy. The conference will take place...

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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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