NEWS of the UGCC news

- 25 November 2011
  04:43
- UGCC Social Days to be held in Odesa The fifth Social Days of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church will be held in Odesa, on November 22-23. This time the focus of discussion will bethe question of human dignity, the chairman of the Commission for Promoting Christian Unity of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Father IhorShaban, told IA MOST-Odesa....
- 25 November 2011
  04:39
- CYM in Ukraine invites people to join the Communion campaign The Ukrainian Youth Association of Ukraine (CYM in Ukraine) in commemorating the anniversary of the Holodomor initiates a campaign called Communion as a sign of spiritual unity with the Ukrainian generations who suffered during the great famine and terror. CYM has held such a campaign in Ukraine since 2003....
- 25 November 2011
  04:36
- Victims of Ukrainian Holodomor commemorated in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris On Sunday, November 20, a silent procession with banners went from Taras Shevchenko Square near the Cathedral of St. Volodymyr the Great in Paris to Notre Dame. During the procession leaflets were distributed with information about the horrible events of 1932-1933 in Ukraine.
- 24 November 2011
  06:01
- His Beatitude Lubomyr (Husar) believes that the spirit of the Orange Revolution is still alive “A few years have passed. We ask ourselves: foreigners from different parts of the world took an interest in the Orange Revolution, so why did we forget about it?” Lubomyr (Husar) asks rhetorically in his column in Ukrayinska Pravda.
- 23 November 2011
  01:46
- Ukrainian-Lebanese documentary film Three Stories of Galicia shown in Ukraine The showing of the documentary film Three Stories of Galicia was held in five cities in Ukraine – Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, Chernivtsi and Odesa – from November 15 to 21, 2011. The film directors are Olha Onyshko, who is Ukrainian, and Sarah Farhat, who is Lebanese. Through the stories of three lives, the film tells about WWII and the history of the Holocaust and the...
- 21 November 2011
  11:01
- Head of the UGCC: Ukrainian and world community still waiting for the truth about the Holodomor The Ukrainian people and the whole civilized world are still waiting for a thorough study of the Ukrainian Genocide of 1932-1933 and for its myths to be debunked. This was stated by head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk), in New York, where he is on a pastoral visit....
- 21 November 2011
  10:58
- Patriarch Sviatoslav Shevchuk receives honorary doctorate (Honoris Causa) at Fordham University in USA His Beatitude Sviatoslav on November 20, 2011, received an honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities (Honoris Causa) at the Fordham University in the USA. On the same day in the University Church the coat-of-arms of Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, Major Archbishop Emeritus, was unveiled and blessed. The blessing was read by the UGCC primate and Archbishop of New...
- 21 November 2011
  10:56
- In Washington Patriarch Sviatoslav consecrates place of future Holodomor monument and meets with US congressmen The head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), Patriarch Sviatoslav (Shevchuk), as part of his visit to the USA, consecrated the land plot allocated in Washington for the construction of the monument to the victims of Holodomor in Ukraine.
- 21 November 2011
  10:54
- [Translate to en:] У Вашингтоні Блаженніший Святослав проводив Богослужіння, зустрічався з офіційними представниками державної влади США та дав інтерв’ю [Translate to en:] Як ми повідомляли раніше, 16 - 17 листопада Блаженніший Святослав (Шевчук), у рамках свого візиту до США, перебував у Вашингтоні. У перший день візиту Предстоятель УГКЦ освятив місце в центрі американської столиці, де буде побудовано пам’ятник жертвам Голодомору. Крім того, 16 листопада Глава Церкви мав низку важливих зустрічей із...
- 21 November 2011
  05:33
- UGCC congregation registered in former metropolitan capital of Radomyshl On November 11, 2011, by the order of Zhytomyr Regional State Administration the newly established congregation of the Holy Trinity of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church of Radomyshl was registered.
- 18 November 2011
  08:04
- High school students in Lviv Archeparchy learn about harmful effects of alcohol The subcommission “For a Sober Life” of the UGCC Lviv Archeparchy is conducts seminars “Truths about Alcohol” for high school students in the Lviv Archeparchy.
- 18 November 2011
  08:02
- Churches of Central and Eastern Europe to serve the needy An international ecumenical conference “The Church in the Service of the Needy: Possibilities of Cooperation with Secular Organizations” is being held from November 16 to 19, 2011, at the Johannes Rau International Educational Center in Minsk, Belarus.
- 18 November 2011
  08:00
- Representatives of UGCC Pastoral Missionary Department visit Greece From November 12 to 15, 2011, Pastoral Missionary Department (PMD) chair Bishop Josyf Milyan and an executive secretary Fr. Vasyl Potochnyak visited Athens. On Sunday, Bishop Josyf headed the Hierarchical Liturgy, which was attended by Athens Bishop Dimitri Salachas, who “said a good word about the Ukrainian labor migrants in Greece.”...
- 18 November 2011
  07:58
- Myroslav Marynovych on papal encyclicals: Propositions received, but not learned The Catholic Church for a hundred of years has published encyclicals regarding the social aspect of life. However, the encyclicals have not been duly appreciated by the Ukrainian society. Often the encyclicals live their own life and the world its own one, said vice Rector Myroslav Marynovych on November 15 during a presentation of social encyclicals at...
- 16 November 2011
  11:35
- UGCC Primate: President Viktor Yanukovych continues to show preference for only one denomination The head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Patriarch Sviatoslav, stated that it appears that Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych continues to show preference only to one denomination in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate, and that he openly declares it. The hierarch, who is visiting USA, said so in an interview to 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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