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- 17 January 2013
  11:56
- Day of Judaism will be celebrated in Ukraine for the first time UGCC Commission for Promoting Christian Unity initiated the celebration of a Day of Judaism in Ukraine which will take place on January 17, 2013. The location of this first celebration will be in Odesa – a city in which at the beginning of the 20th century there resided the third largest Jewish community of the world (after New York and Warsaw) and in which...
- 17 January 2013
  11:52
- “Bishop Ivan (Margitych) – a symbol of the unity of the Mukachiv Eparchy of GCC and UGCC,” Head of UGCC in Zakarpattya On January 12, 2013, His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk), UGCC Head, celebrated a Panakhyda [Memorial Service] on the grave of Bishop Ivan (Margitych) , Bishop of GCC Mukhachiv Epachy in the village of Borzhavsk in Zakarpattya.
- 16 January 2013
  06:06
- UGCC Head: “Today there is a crisis in state-church relations” The fact that the President approved the changes to the law “On freedom of conscience and religious organizations” forces the heads of churches to talk about a crisis in state-church relations. UGCC Primate made this statement during his interview with the newspaper The Day.
- 13 January 2013
  02:50
- Pope Benedict XVI appointed an Apostolic Visitator for Greek- Catholic Ukrainians in Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile and Venezuela On Saturday, January 12, 2013, the Vatican announced that Pope Benedict XVI appointed Bishop Daniel (Kozlinsky), an Apostolic Administrator of the vacant seat of the Greek-Catholic Eparchy of the Dormition of the Blessed Mother in Buenos Aires (Argentina,) as the Apostolic Visitator for Greek-Catholic Ukrainians who reside in Uruguay, Paraguay,...
- 12 January 2013
  09:32
- His Beatitude Sviatoslav: “The Feast of the Nativity of Christ is a celebration of a very profound, tender closeness of God to people” (video) “On the Feast of the Nativity of Christ we all together create one God-loving family, celebrating among us the presence of the newborn Christ –God, who became man. In this baby, states Apostle Paul, rests the whole plentitude of divinity. Therefore we say that the Feast of the Nativity of Christ is a celebration of a very profound, tender closeness of God to...
- 12 January 2013
  05:50
- [Translate to en:] Розпочався прийом заявок на участь в конкурсі УГКЦ «Пісня серця» [Translate to en:] Як ми раніше повідомляли, цього року в УГКЦ відбудеться Міжнародний конкурс сучасної релігійної пісні «Пісня серця-2013» під гаслом «Віра, якою я живу». Цьогорічний конкурс присвячений Року віри та 2015-річчю Хрещення України для примноження культурних і духовних цінностей українського народу через популяризацію сучасної...
- 12 January 2013
  05:47
- Directors of catechetical schools attended a seminar in Briukhovychi UGCC Catechetical Commission of Kyiv-Halych Major Archbishopric reported that the next in a series of seminars for directors of catechetical schools took place on December 27-29, 2012 at Metropolitan Joseph Benjamin Rutsky Basilian Institute of Philosophy and Theological Studies in Briukhovychi.
- 12 January 2013
  05:44
- Recollections for youth on the topic of faith were held in Yazlivets Monastery in Ternopil region Recently in Yazlivets Monastery of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Ternopil region, members of the Christian youth movement, The Omen, contemplated the role of faith in the life of a Christian. The spiritual leaders of the recollections were Sr. Nadiya and Sr. Ivanna of the Sisters of the Holy Eucharist. This was...
- 12 January 2013
  05:42
- Radio program Spiritual Journey is 20 years old Twenty years ago, on December 20, 1992, the program Spiritual Journey was first aired on the station Lvivska Khvylia [Lviv Wave]. This program was blessed by His Beatitude Myroslav (Liubachivsky). Myron Perun, author and creator of the program, served as its anchorman from the beginning until August 1998. “I remember that we recorded the first programs...
- 12 January 2013
  01:09
- His Beatitude Sviatoslav: "Today each Ukrainian has to ask himself: do I recognize myself as a Ukrainian or as an Asian?" When it comes to the Customs Union, the question is not only about the economic integration, but about the integration of Ukraine into the Eurasian political, cross-national and cultural space. Therefore each Ukrainian has to ask himself today: do I recognize myself as a Ukrainian or as an Asian?"
- 12 January 2013
  01:07
- Christmas in Khabarovsk and Vladivostok At Christmas, on the 7th of January, for the Greek Catholics of Khabarovsk city (Russia) the Christmas Liturgy was celebrated. In the Far East it happens only once a year. The Mass was celebrated by the coordinator for Greek Catholics on the territory, which corresponds to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Joseph at Irkutsk city, by the parochial priest,...
- 12 January 2013
  01:04
- “We bear responsibility for the growth of faith among others…”, His Beatitude Sviatoslav on the Year of Faith “Right now, it is not our parents, grandparents and great grandparents, but we – the children of the 21st century – who are taking on the responsibility for growth in faith, which needs to be deeply understood, needs to be lived and needs to be shared with others. Thus we will continue and deepen our ancestral faith, will enrich with faith those who seek it, and...
- 12 January 2013
  12:59
- UGCC Head: I am perturbed that brutal pressure and rough force are being accepted as methods of solving state, social and political issues “As a Christian, I am perturbed that brutal pressure and rough force are being accepted as methods of solving state, social and political issues in Ukraine,” stated UGCC Primate, His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk), in an interview with the newspaper Den [The Day] on January 11 in answer to the question: “Political prisoner Yulia Tymoshenko announced...
- 03 January 2013
  09:12
- [Translate to en:] «Свідчення віри і любов до Бога вимагає відмовитись від шкідливих для природи практик», – Митрополит Володимир (Війтишин) [Translate to en:] «Свідчення віри і любов до Бога вимагає відмовитись від шкідливих для природи практик», – про це наголосив у своєму Різдвяному посланні Владика Володимир (Війтишин), Архиєпископ і Митрополит Івано-Франківський УГКЦ.
- 03 January 2013
  09:04
- UGCC announces its plans on commemorating the Year of Faith The Year of Faith Organizing Committee headed by Bishop Yaroslav (Pryriz), Eparch of Sambir-Drohobych, announced its plan of events to mark the Year of Faith on an all-Church basis, approved by No. 30 resolution of the Second (33rd session) of UGCC Permanent Synod of Bishops. The Year of Faith in UGCC will carry the slogan: “One God, one faith, one Baptism.”...

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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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