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- 08 June 2012
  12:31
- The festival devoted to the creative works of emigrants will be held in Lviv The festival devoted to the creative works of emigrants “Towards each other” will be held in Shevchenkivskyi Hai in Lviv on 10th of June 2012. Among those who will take part in the festival will be the authentic singing ensemble “Korali” as well as ethnic ensembles “Oykumena”, “Tarasova Nich” and “Na pershyi poglyad”. The program of this event also aims to...
- 06 June 2012
  12:21
- UGCC Primate comes to Canada His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shewchuk) arrived on May 31, 2012 in the Edmonton Eparchy as part of his first pastoral visit to Canada. The UGCC Primate was greeted in the Calgary Airport by Bishop Davyd (Motiuk), of Edmonton Eparchy together with representatives of clergy, monastic orders and laity, reported Sister Emanuella Kharyshyn, SSMI....
- 06 June 2012
  12:17
- All Ukrainian Council of Churches opposes the comparison of religious organizations to business enterprises The heads of Churches and religious organizations are troubled by the attempts to deprive religious organizations of their exclusive status of a juridical (legal) person and to place them on par with commercial enterprises during the procedures of state registration. The All Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations (AUCCRO)...
- 04 June 2012 02:51
- Patriarch of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church calls for evangelization On his first Canadian pastoral visit, His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church worldwide, told the Herald the biggest challenge of the church is evangelization.
- 02 June 2012
  10:19
- UGCC head in Poland: ‘We are able to feel the unity and thus the greatness of our martyr Church, which is scattered in different countries, cultures, and which preaches in different languages’ "This day for me is very moving, because together we are able to feel the unity and thus the greatness of our martyr Church, which is scattered in different countries, cultures, and which preaches in different languages. Yet it remains the Ukrainian heir of the sacraments of the Baptism of St. Volodymyr, " His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk), head of the...
- 01 June 2012
  10:23
- His Beatitude Sviatoslav: “Today the middle class is leaving Ukraine – we cannot be unperturbed by this.” The statement was made by the Primate of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shewchuk) during an interview on Radio Svoboda, in answer to the question about his attitude toward reproaches made to Ukrainian emigrants, that they are acting irresponsibly towards the fate of their native country, that they are traitors....
- 31 May 2012
  02:28
- The Eucharistic week will take place in June in the parishes of Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church (UGCC) While preparing for the 1025 Anniversary since Christianization of Ukraine, the Synod of Bishops of Kyiv-Galician Supreme Archiepiscopacy of the UGCC (the 54th session from 27-28 of October 2011, Lviv- Briukhovychi, paragraph 6) gave their blessing to the idea of holding the Holy Sacrament of the year 2012 with the emphasis on the Eucharistic week in the...
- 29 May 2012
  09:05
- All-Ukrainian Council of Churches considers the bill “Principles of state language policy” a case of political manipulation The All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations (AUCCRO) expresses its concern regarding events resulting from placing on the agenda of Verkhovna Rada bills that harm the normal constitutional functioning of the Ukrainian language, in particular, the bill “Principles of state language policy” (reg. no. 9073), initiated by...
- 28 May 2012
  06:37
- His Beatitude Lubomyr (Husar) will participate in the All-Ukrainian Scholarly-Historical Conference “Radomyshl in the History of Ukrainian Church 1682-1840” The All-Ukrainian Scholarly-Historical Conference on “Radomyshl in the History of the Ukrainian Church 1682-1840,” marking the 250th anniversary of the inauguration of Pylyp (Volodkevych) as the Metropolitan of Kyiv, Halych and All Rus, will take place on June 8, 2012, in the historical cultural complex of Radomysl Castle in Radomyshl, Zhytomyr...
- 27 May 2012
  12:55
- Meetings of Permanent Synod of Bishops held in Wroclaw Meetings of the Permanent Synod of Bishops of the UGCC are being held in Wroclaw, Poland. In addition to Patriarch Sviatoslav, the head of the UGCC, bishops from Ukraine and from abroad are taking part. The first day of the Permanent Synod, May 24, was devoted to the preparation for the 2012 Synod of Bishops, which will be held September 9-16 in Winnipeg,...
- 27 May 2012
  12:52
- Caritas-Kyiv completed its charitable project – assistance to needy children suffering from cancer On the eve of the Feast of Ascension (24 May), the director of the Charitable Fund Caritas-Kyiv, Rev. Roman Syrotych, together with Rev. Roman Zholobchuk, a priest serving the UGCC community in Slavutych, visited the family of seven year old Viktoriya, who since age two has been undergoing treatment for cancer. The purpose of the visit was to present the...
- 25 May 2012
  11:54
- Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli: “The vocation of a journalist is extremely fascinating” “Among the biggest problems that we experience is how to choose from all the information that we receive on the Internet, the one which will be useful in our life.” Today, His Excellency Claudio Maria Celli, President of the Papal Council on Social Communications, recapitulated this in his lecture “Proclaiming Today’s Values,” presented to the Institute...
- 25 May 2012
  10:59
- Hryhorii Seleshchuk: ‘The formation of migration policy should be based on deep analysis of the situation’ A roundtable on social problems of Ukrainian migration was held on May 15 at the Institute for Regional Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Nearly 40 leading Ukrainian scientists, public figures, journalists, representatives of the State Migration Service and others participated in the event. The UGCC Commission for Migrants was a...
- 25 May 2012
  10:56
- During a press conference in Donetsk Patriarch Sviatoslav (Shevchuk) stressed on imporance of Russian translation of UGCC Catechism “The UGCC today has reached far beyond the Ukrainian-speaking environment. We live and minister in different spatial contexts, because many of our faithful do not understand Ukrainian well. Given that Greek Catholics are also in the Russian-speaking environment, they are not always able to read documents in Ukrainian. Therefore, we are translating...
- 25 May 2012
  10:52
- Archbishop Claudio Celli: Basis of church communication is evangelization The basis of church communication is evangelization. The Gospel always remains the same, but people change, and therefore so do the means of evangelization. Today we cannot only speak to the people who come to church but must find a way to speak to those who never come to us. This opinion was expressed by Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, president of the...

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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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