NEWS of the UGCC news

- 10 September 2012
  09:56
- The UGCC fights effectively with the alcohol dependence within the society An epidemic of alcohol dependence breaks out with the time in almost each of the Ukrainian families. Ukraine ranks first on the global scale in the number of cases of alcoholism among young people; every fourth of those dependent is female. The state, as well as, a range of public organizations are making attempts in order to fight it, however, the results...
- 09 September 2012
  11:40
- Ukrainian Catholics warmly receive leader He came to see his people and his people responded. The Eparchy of New Westminster was abuzz Aug. 31 to Sept. 2 with the visit of their shepherd, Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk. The eparchy celebrated with a moleben (a prayer service), the blessing of a newly christened eparchial house, and Divine Liturgies (Mass) in Vancouver and Kelowna....
- 09 September 2012
  08:35
- In Canada, His Beatitude Sviatoslav visited the Holy Family Home for the Elderly As part of his visit to Canada, His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk) visited the Holy Family Home in Manitoba, a residence for the elderly run by the Sisters Servants of Immaculate Conception. The home has been in operation for 55 years; it was opened in May 1957.
- 09 September 2012
  08:32
- An oath by the relics of Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky began the work of this year’s UGCC Synod of Bishops The first official act of this year’s UGCC Synod of Bishops took place in St. Joseph’s Church which houses the relics of the Bishop and Martyr Blessed Vasyl Velychkovskyi. The Synod Fathers followed their tradition of making an oath to maintain confidentiality and prayed for the assistance of the Holy Spirit in their work. The Prayer Service to the Holy...
- 09 September 2012
  01:52
- Canada hosts the UGCC Synod of Bishops for the first time As reported previously, this year the UGCC Synod of Bishops will take place in Winnipeg (Canada) during 9-15 September. It is the first time that an event of such significance is taking place in Canada and it coincides with the centennial of the coming to this land of the first Greek-Catholic bishop – Blessed Makita (Budka)....
- 08 September 2012
  09:21
- The CF "Caritas Kyiv" has provided people and children who are in need with the humanitarian assistance The CF "Caritas Kyiv", which takes care of the people in need on the permanent basis, performed another assist - delivered sweets and humanitarian aid to those children and people, who belong to the “in crisis” categories. Chocolate bars, chocolates and other sweets, clothing and footwear were given to: street children, disabled children, half-orphan...
- 08 September 2012
  09:16
- Patriarch Sviatoslav: "Through buying-selling votes – they are selling our Motherland, our future" Through buying-selling votes – they are selling our Motherland, our future. Such an opinion was expressed by His Beatitude Sviasoslav (Shevchuk), the Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, in the interview with the editorial “Ukrainian truth”.
- 08 September 2012
  12:59
- Celebration of Josyf Slipyj’s birthday anniversary in Vinnytsia From 2nd until the 9th of September, the parish of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin in Vinnytsia, which is under care of Fathers from the Charity of the Incarnate Word, is conducting a week of Remembrance of the Patriarch Josyf (Slipyj) in honour of the 120th anniversary of his birth. Over that period of time, during the Divine Liturgy in the parish church,...
- 08 September 2012
  12:56
- Members of the AUCS “Obnova” attract students towards the more active way of youth life Students who, in the early September, were travelling by Lviv, Frankivsk, Ternopil as well as Chernivtsi trains to Kyiv for their studies, were welcomed, in the morning at the railway station, by the young people, who handed them flyers with the information about the activity of Greek Catholic youth communities in Kiev. Those young people – are the same...
- 06 September 2012
  10:53
- Bishop Mykhailo (Koltun) blessed the freshmen of the Force Academy On the Knowledge Day, which is on the 1st of September, Bishop Mykhailo (Koltun), who is the Head of the Patriarchal Curia of the UGCC on matters of Pastoral Care in the Power Structures of Ukraine, took part in the Ceremony on the occasion of both - taking the Oath of Enlistment and beginning of the new academic year in the Academy of Ground Forces in Lviv....
- 06 September 2012
  10:48
- Patriarch Sviatoslav: ‘When someone wants to draw us into the “Russian world,” he denies us of our identity’ Today to talk about the Ukrainian world is effective and appropriate. We have a powerful identity that nobody has managed to destroy. And it is developing. So when someone wants us to draw us into the "Russian world,” he is denying us of our identity. And when we talk about the Ukrainian world, we talk about the integrity of our own culture, language and...
- 06 September 2012
  10:44
- Bishop Josyf Milyan: ‘I hope the UOC-MP head reacts to events in Bila Tserkva and Khmilnyk’ “I think that the events in Khmilnyk and Bila Tserkva are interrelated. Bila Tserkva has always ‘been in the forefront’ in the militancy of representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) against the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC). We often hear from representatives of the Orthodox Church that a UGCC church is...
- 06 September 2012
  10:39
- Head of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church begins visit to Winnipeg His Beatitude Sviatoslav, the Major Archbishop of Kyiv, Ukraine and head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church worldwide, arrived in Winnipeg for a week-long pastoral visit that will be followed by a meeting of the Synod of Bishops of that Church.
- 04 September 2012
  12:18
- On the occasion of the Nationwide Pilgrimage to Rome, a concert in honor of Pope Benedict XVI will be held in Vatican The UGCC organizes the Nationwide Ukrainian Pilgrimage on the occasion of the blessing of the restored Cathedral of St. Sophia in Rome; the event will take place from 13th to 15th of October this year. Among the arrangements for this event, that will be held in Vatican, there will be a gala concert, in the hall of Pope Paul VI, with the participation of Academic...
- 04 September 2012
  12:13
- With the Divine Liturgy, in which the Apostolic Nuncio participated, started the new school year in Drohobych On the 1st of September, rectors and directors, lecturers and teachers, university students and the students of other educational institutions of Drohobych city, came for the common prayer to the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, which is situated in Drohobych. The prayer was attended by the representatives of the local authorities as well as by the head of...

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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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