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- 16 November 2012
  02:28
- The first participants of the interactive contest “Oh, who loves Nicholas the Saintly" - "Merry Trio from Irpin" Volodya Poteryayko (9 years), Bohdan Mamchur (4.5 years) and Ivanka Poteryayko (1.5 years) are performing a song of Taras Chubay "Saint Nicholas- the bearded". As the mother of the contestants Anna Poteryayko has told, Volodya and Ivanka are brother and sister, and Bohdanko is their cousin. Families of Poteryayko and Mamchur live in Irpin, which is...
- 16 November 2012
  02:26
- Pope Benedict XVI received participants of the plenary session of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity An authentic ecumenical dialogue is not possible without taking into account the crisis in faith. Pope Benedict XVI noted this during his meeting on Thursday, November 15th with participants of the plenary session of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. The Council is deliberating at the Vatican on November 12-16. Its topic is “The...
- 15 November 2012
  10:26
- “A dialogue and development of ecumenical relationships with Ukrainian Orthodoxy is a pastoral imperative,” His Beatitude Sviatoslav Taking into account the multiculturalism and the multi-religiousness of contemporary Ukraine, a UGCC priority -- its main mission -- is an ecumenical dialogue. Since most Christians in Ukraine declare themselves as traditionally belonging to the Orthodox Church, the dialogue and development of ecumenical relationship with Ukrainian Orthodoxy is a...
- 14 November 2012
  10:21
- The friendly autumn ball for the people with special needs, who use wheelchairs, took place in Ivano-Frankivsk Recently, more than three dozen of couples circled around the hall dancing the Viennese waltz during the friendly autumn ball, named "We need two, help another - become a friend for a person with special needs (the one using wheelchairs)”. This event took place due to the assistance of the Carpathian Foundation, Scanfund as well as the network of Dutch...
- 14 November 2012
  08:52
- UGCC Head offers his condolences to the faithful in France, countries of Benelux, and Switzerland on the occasion of the death of Bishop Mykhail (Hrynchyshyn) “The life path of Bishop Mykhail was filled with great humility, devoted service and full commitment to his work of glorifying Our Lord Jesus Christ and of benefiting the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church. His choice was always on the side of God: entering the Redemptorist monastery, becoming ordained as a priest, being a zealous pastor in New York,...
- 14 November 2012
  08:49
- The significance of ecumenism for the new evangelization: the Head of the UGCC participates in the meeting of the Pontifical Council on matters of the Christian Unity From 12th up until the 16th of November 2012, the plenary meeting of the Pontifical Council regarding the Christian Unity is being held in the Vatican. The subject of discussion: "The significance of ecumenism for the new evangelization." This issue is closely linked to the thirteenth General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, the theme of which was: "The...
- 14 November 2012
  01:06
- International conference on combating corruption in education held at UCU On November 9-10 at the Ukrainian Catholic University, an international conference “From a New Academic Culture to Civil Society Free from Corruption,” the main theme of which was to analyze and summarize the best anti-corruption practices in Ukrainian higher education and discuss techniques for fighting corruption....
- 14 November 2012
  07:43
- UGCC Head in Vatican led the Divine Liturgy on St. Josaphat’s gravesite “If we really want the ecumenical dialogue to develop, if we together with you have the responsibility to truly worry about it – that there be one flock and one pastor – we cannot not contemplate the figure of this saint, emphasized His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk), Father and Head of UGCC, in his sermon during the Divine Liturgy that he led at the grave of...
- 14 November 2012
  07:40
- Bishop Mykhail (Hrynchyshyn) C.SS.R. passed to his eternal rest On November 12, at the age of 84, the Apostolic Exarch for Ukrainians in France, countries of Benelux, and Switzerland, Bishop Mykhail Hrynchyshyn died.
- 13 November 2012
  09:38
- In Evpatoria, the icon and relics of Blessed Bishop Martyr Theodore Romzha are displayed for public veneration On November 11th in the Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Mother in Evratopiya in Crimea, through the efforts of Rev. Bohdan Kostetsky, the icon with parts of the relics of Blessed Bishop Martyr Theodore Romzha were exhibited for prayerful veneration, according to Ms. Liudmyla Hryhorieyva from AR Crimea....
- 13 November 2012
  09:36
- Teams from UGCC eparchies of Sokal-Zhovkva and Sambir-Drohobych are the winners of the All-Ukrainian Brain-Ring Game On November 10th the Lviv Spiritual Seminary of the Holy Spirit (LSSHS) hosted an All-Ukrainian Intellectual Christian Brain-Ring Game on the topic Holy Sacraments.
- 13 November 2012
  09:33
- The VI Social Days of the UGCC have started in Kirovohrad On Sunday, 11th of November, in the Parish of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, which is in Kirovohrad city, with the Divine Liturgy started the VI Social Days of the UGCC, devoted to the theme “Social orphanage in Ukraine”.
- 12 November 2012
  11:13
- UGCC Head greeted USA with the presidential elections During a meeting on November 10th with United State officials, Primate of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk) greeted USA with the election of President Barack Obama and wished him success in his work.
- 11 November 2012
  01:35
- Bishop Volodymyr (Koybych) conducted a visitation to the Parish of Pedra Branca that is in Brazil In the early November 2012, Bishop Volodymyr (Kovbych) conducted a canonical visitation to the Pedra Branca. This 72-year-old parish is the subsidiary parish of Saint Josaphat of the Prudentópolis city, which is located 25 kilometers from it – this is reported by the press-service of the Curitiba Diocese of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church....
- 11 November 2012
  01:28
- UGCC Media Resource announced a St. Nicholas Feast Day Competition of child spiritual works An interactive competition of child spiritual works named “O khto, khto Mykolaya liubyt?” [Oh -- who, who loves St. Nicholas?] was announced by UGCC Media Resource.

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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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