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- 05 March 2011
  04:58
- Heads of seven churches sent a joint letter to the President of Ukraine regarding introduction of Military Chaplaincy The heads of the seven denominations met on 10 November, 2008 and signed the Memorandum of cooperation with the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine in matters of pastoral care for military in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Recently the group has sent a joint letter to the President of Ukraine in response to the President’s 7 February, 2011 Instruction on the...
- 05 March 2011
  04:38
- The Future of Europe Depends on Dialogue On March 1, 2011 in Warsaw, Poland, a working ecumenical session of the group "Reconciliation in Europe” took place in the building of Polish ecumenical council. This is an endeavor of the Churches in Ukraine, Belarus, Poland and Germany.
- 03 March 2011
  12:43
- A meeting of the Bishops of Kyiv-Halych Major Archbishopric of the UGCC A meeting of the bishops of Kyiv-Halych Major Archbishopric of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church was held 24 - 25 February 2011 in Lviv-Bryukhovychi. It was attended by all the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic bishops in Ukraine and the Apostolic Administrator of Buchach Eparchy. Prior to the session, the bishops took part in a meeting with Roman Catholic...
- 03 March 2011 12:23
- A conference in Kyiv on the communion of the spirituality of religious and lay people with the participation of His Beatitude Lubomyr "It is very important that the Church community has a better understanding of the importance of religious people in the life of the Church. Likewise, dear brothers and sisters, we should contemplate how all of us can contribute to the spiritual life of our Church." These are the words of His Beatitude Lubomyr spoken on Saturday in Kyiv at the monastery of St....
- 03 March 2011 12:10
- A conference in Kyiv on the communion of the spirituality of religious and lay people with the participation of His Beatitude Lubomyr "It is very important that the Church community has a better understanding of the importance of religious people in the life of the Church. Likewise, dear brothers and sisters, we should contemplate how all of us can contribute to the spiritual life of our Church." These are the words of His Beatitude Lubomyr spoken on Saturday in Kyiv at the monastery of St....
- 01 March 2011 02:07
- “Problems of freedom in Ukraine today” – the theme of the seminar at UCU "It is said that a few years ago Ukraine was a free country. Now, according to various organizations, freedom has diminished. Now it's a crucial time. A time when the Ukrainian society will either believe in itself, become more democratic and live according to the foundational ideals of liberty, or it will lose its freedom completely.” That is the...
- 26 February 2011
  07:41
- First steps of pastoral care of the UGCC in the Holy Land On behalf of His Beatitude Lubomyr and with the blessing of Bishop Josyph (Milian), the head of the Pastoral and Missionary Department (PMD) of the UGCC, Rev. Vasyl Potochniak (the executive secretary of the PMD) was on a working visit to Israel from 12 to 21 February. The purpose of the visit was to get acquainted with the pastoral needs of the faithful of the...
- 24 February 2011 06:54
- Preparation for upcoming Patriarchal Sobor in Stamford Eparchy Representatives of clergy, religious and lay people of Stamford eparchy gathered on Thursday, February 17 in St. Mary's Villa in Sloatsburg, NY to discuss and exchange ideas about the role of religious people in the Church, their mission and their response to modern challenges. The Eparchial sobor of Stamford Eparchy is a preparation for the upcoming...
- 24 February 2011 05:41
- Preparation for upcoming Patriarchal Sobor in Stamford Eparchy Representatives of clergy, religious and lay people of Stamford eparchy gathered on Thursday, February 17 in St. Mary's Villa in Sloatsburg, NY to discuss and exchange ideas about the role of religious people in the Church, their mission and their response to modern challenges. The Eparchial sobor of Stamford Eparchy is a preparation for the upcoming...
- 24 February 2011 05:33
- The webinar of the UGCC on Church history analyzed efforts for the unity of Christian Churches in Ukraine during the period of the patriarchate of His Beatitude Lubomyr The imperative for the unity of Ukrainian Christians was originally declared by His Beatitude Lubomyr during his installment and solemn declaration speech 10 years ago. This message has been emphasized by Director of the Institute of Church History of the Ukrainian Catholic University, Rev. Dr. Andriy Mykhaleyko during the Church history webinar...
- 22 February 2011 04:37
- His Beatitude Lubomyr thanked everyone for the articles, commentaries and interviews regarding his resignation "Recently I have received many greetings, comments, and even articles and interviews, turned on my person. My first wish was to meet each of you personally, shake your right hand and thank you for your benevolence. Unfortunately, this dream is not realizable. The second possibility - to write a few words of thanks to each of you. I do not exclude such a...
- 21 February 2011 04:43
- All of us are sinners, even though only a small percentage of us are criminals, - His Beatitude Lubomyr about the Day of special pastoral care and prayer for prisoners. The Sunday of the Prodigal Son, which this year falls on February 20th, Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church has defined as a day of special pastoral care and prayer for prisoners. Specially for this day His Beatitude Lubomyr wrote on January 14th 2011 a pastoral letter to clergy, laity of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church to and to all...
- 18 February 2011
  02:25
- The elections of the new Head of the UGCC to begin on March 21st On Thursday, 17 th Feb., there was held a press conference in Kyiv on the occasion of convocation of the Elective Synod of the Bishops of the UGCC with participation of Administrator of the UGCC Most Rev. Ihor Vozniak, Secretary of the Synod of Bishops of the UGCC Most Rev. Bohdan Dzyurakh and chief of the Legal department of the Patriarchal Curia Rev. Dr....
- 17 February 2011
  05:53
- The elections of the new Head of the UGCC to begin on March 21st On Thursday, 17 th Feb., there was held a press conference in Kyiv on the occasion of convocation of the Elective Synod of the Bishops of the UGCC with participation of Administrator of the UGCC Most Rev. Ihor Vozniak, Secretary of the Synod of Bishops of the UGCC Most Rev. Bohdan Dzyurakh and chief of the Legal department of the Patriarchal Curia Rev. Dr....
- 14 February 2011
  09:24
- His Beatitude Lubomyr transfers seal of Patriarchal Curia to administrator of Kyiv-Halych Major Archbishopric (video added) On the evening of February 10 took place the final stage of the transfer of power by His Beatitude Lubomyr to the administrator of the UGCC Bishop Ihor Voznyak. His Beatitude transferred the seal of the Patriarchal Curia as a symbol of authority and ministry for the whole church. Opening the ceremony Bishop Bohdan Dziurakh, Secretary of the Synod 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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