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- 17 May 2012
  01:37
- The UGCC Commission on Matters of Youth invites young people to join in forming a UGCC Christian Youth Forum To assist young people in finding their place in the Church, to coordinate the efforts of numerous Christian youth organizations of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church as well as to aide in meeting challenges with which youth is confronted are the aims of people who have undertaken the creation of the UGCC Christian Youth Forum....
- 16 May 2012
  11:29
- Head of the UGCC led nationwide pilgrimage of clergy to Peremyshlyany in Lviv region On May 11, 2012, bishops, clergy and laity of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church gathered for a nationwide pilgrimage to the city of Peremyshlyany in the Lviv region. The pilgrimage, headed by Patriarch Sviatoslav (Shevchuk) was dedicated to the Blessed Priest Omelyan Kovch, a long-time pastor of the city. He became a martyr on March 25, 1944, in the...
- 16 May 2012
  11:27
- UGCC Primate meets with Donetsk youth During a pastoral visit to the Donetsk-Kharkiv Exarchate on May 14th, Patriarch Sviatoslav (Shevchuk), UGCC Head, met with Donetsk youth. Some 200 young Donetsk residents greeted the Patriarch. The meeting took place in the chapel of the Youth Center of the UGCC parish Descent of the Holy Spirit......
- 11 May 2012
  12:56
- Head of UGCC to consecrate monument to Blessed Omelyan Kovch A nationwide pilgrimage of UGCC clergy to Peremyshliany dedicated to the memory of the Blessed Omelyan Kovch will be held on May 11, 2012. During the pilgrimage, His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk), head of the UGCC, will consecrate the monument to Blessed Omelyan Kovch.
- 10 May 2012
  09:15
- An Ecumenical Prayer Service for World War II victims was held in Lviv On 8 May 2012 various religious confessions joined in a communal prayer service in Lviv’s Yaniv Cemetery at “Three Crosses” -- the burial site of unidentified WW II victims. The prayer service was organized by the UGCC Commission on Justice and Peace together with the organization Ukrainian Youth for Christ. Among the participants were...
- 10 May 2012
  01:57
- Patriarch Sviatoslav blessed the opening of the 350th jubilee of the city of Ivano-Frankivsk Heads of three traditional Christian Churches visited the capital of Subcarpathia to participate in the celebrations of the 350th jubilee of the city of Ivano-Frankivsk. Patriarch Sviatoslav (Shevchuk), UGCC Head, met Patriarch Filaret, Primate UOC (KP), and Metropolitan Mefodiy, Primate UAOC, in the Holy Resurrection Metropolitan Cathedral UGCC...
- 02 May 2012
  10:09
- A book of prayers to the physicians, Sts. Kosma and Damian was presented in Lviv Recently the heads of the eparchial Commissions of the UGCC on Pastoral Health Care, under the patronage of Saints Kosma and Damian, held a meeting in Lviv during which a new prayer book was presented, Prayers for healing to the physicians, Saints Kosma and Damian.
- 01 May 2012
  11:24
- UGCC expressed its sympathy to all victims of the terrorist attack in Dnipropetrovsk In the name of Patriarch Sviatoslav and the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, we express our sympathy to all victims of the explosions in Dnipropetrovsk and assure you of our care, solidarity and prayer. May the Merciful Lord heal your wounds and grant you full health!
- 29 April 2012 09:13
- Canadian Parliament recognizes Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky's courageous actions / YouTube Video Text of the motion introduced by Minister Jason Kenney in the House of Commons on Tuesday (April 25) honouring Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky.
- 25 April 2012
  10:45
- A conference to coordinate efforts of all interested in the welfare of orphans will take place in Lviv Lvivshchyna without Orphans, a conference on 27 April 2012, will address effective means of overcoming orphanhood in the area (location to be announced). The representatives of the UGCC Commission on Matters of the Family stated that the goal of the conference is to coordinate in the Lviv province all the efforts on behalf of orphans and children...
- 25 April 2012
  10:40
- Commission on Matters of the family helped organize a soccer tournament for orphans who attend boarding schools A soccer tournament “A Soccer Holiday That Gives Hope” for orphans who attend boarding schools was recently held in Lviv. The event was held with the assistance of the Lviv Regional Committee for Physical Education and Sport of the Ministry of Education of Ukraine jointly with the UGCC Commission on Matters of the Family....
- 23 April 2012
  12:39
- Primate of UGCC met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic On April 20th, Patriarch Sviatoslav (Shevchuk), UGCC Head, and Patriarch Lubomyr (Husar), Archbishop Emeritus, met with First Vice-Premier, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, Karel Schwarzenberg. During his first visit to Ukraine, the Czech Minister expressed his strong desire to meet with the UGCC Head since he was well aware of the...
- 12 April 2012
  11:01
- “In the letter we appealed to the President as the guarantor who ensures that justice is just,” reported Patriarch Sviatoslav about the meeting of the heads of the churches with Viktor Yanukovych Today, during a two and a half hour meeting with the heads of the Ukrainian churches, President Viktor Yanukovych informed the gathering that their petition to pardon Yulia Tymoshenko and Yuriy Lutsenko is only possible once all the court processes involving them have been settled. This was related by the Primate of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church...
- 08 April 2012
  09:19
- His Beatitude Lubomyr during National Roundtable: ‘Intellectuals are present in every cultural nation’ Without the existence of the intelligentsia one cannot talk about law and order in society. For those people who make up the intelligentsia of a certain state have high professional knowledge. They also have a deep understanding (through communication, knowledge of history and culture), who a person is, where he comes from and where he is heading, what his...
- 06 April 2012
  11:53
- UGCC Justice and Peace Commission announces a call for participation in the International Summer School in Economics UGCC Justice and Peace Commission announces a call for participation in the International Summer School in Economics "Towards a Bridging Economy," which will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, from September 11 to 15, 2012.

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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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