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- 13 December 2010
  10:22
- Webinar on Liquidation of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Held In a webinar on the 1946 liquidation of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Father Taras Bublyk, researcher at the Institute of History of the Church of UCU, said the Soviet authority did not intend to coexist with the Greek Catholic Church because it considered the church part of the anti-Soviet system. According to Fr. Taras, in September 1939 the...
- 13 December 2010
  10:19
- Metropolitan Sheptytsky Commemorated at Khmelnytskyi Philharmonic "The Servant of God, Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, is a figure, for which we must thank God, because, as Cardinal Tisseran once said addressing Ukrainians, he is an adornment of our Church and our nation. Metropolitan Sheptytsky was a teacher of our nation," said Patriarch Lubomyr in a greeting address to the participants of a celebratory academy in...
- 13 December 2010
  10:18
- Ukrainian Catholic University Collects Christmas Gifts for Children This year’s charity event St. Nicholas Will Not Forget You has begun at the Ukrainian Catholic University. Assistants of St. Nicholas will distribute painted decorations, handmade paper cutouts, greeting cards, Christmas ornaments, and other crafts to needy children on the night of December 19, 2010....
- 13 December 2010
  10:16
- Patriarch Lubomyr to Russian religious portal: “I did not come to Kyiv, I have returned" "Five years ago, in 2005, I did not come to Kyiv, I returned. After two hundred years," said the head of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Patriarch Lubomyr in an interview to the Russian online religious resource Portal-Credo.Ru. The head of the Church noted that when western Ukraine came under the Austro-Hungarian Empire after the Partition of Poland in...
- 07 December 2010
  12:32
- Bishop Benedict (Aleksiychuk): Employees of the church are not the administrative office but the people of God called to holiness Bishop Benedict (Aleksiychuk) has blessed a new tradition at Lviv’s St. George Cathedral – a daily prayer for all employees of the Church’s structures.
- 07 December 2010
  12:31
- His Beatitude Lubomyr thanks entrepreneurs for their activity and courage On December 2, 2010, administrators of the Kyiv-Mohyla Business School (kmbs) met with His Beatitude Lubomyr, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. The topic of the meeting was “Business and Spiritual Values.” During the conversation Patriarch Lubomyr was asked about happiness, if money is good or evil, and about the task of the authorities....
- 03 December 2010
  02:51
- His Beatitude Lubomyr blesses future Andrey Sheptytsky School Head of UGCC His Beatitude Lubomyr blessed the future Andrey Sheptytsky School, which is to open in September 2012 in Kyiv. According to SoborNews, the presentation of the new school was held on November 30 at the Patriarchal Curia of the UGCC.
- 03 December 2010
  02:48
- Patriarch Lubomyr talks about the steps to achieve Christian unity A national conference on “The Essence and Manifestations of Interdenominational Relations in Ukraine” will take place in Kyiv from November 30 through December 1, 2010. The conference was organized by the State Committee on Nationalities and Religions, the Religious Studies Department of the Institute of Philosophy of Skovoroda National Academy of...
- 03 December 2010
  02:45
- Victims of the Holodomor commemorated in Brussels On Saturday, November 28, the lighting of candles in the Ukrainian School of Yaroslav the Wise in Brussels concluded the commemoration of honoring of the innocent victims of the Holodomor.
- 03 December 2010
  12:36
- Overview of the 52nd session of the Synod of Bishops of Kyiv-Halych Major Archbishopric of the UGCC The 52nd session of the Synod of Bishops of Kyiv-Halych Major Archbishopric of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church was held in Lviv-Bryukhovychi on November 23-24, 2010. All Ukrainian Greek-Catholic bishops who work in Ukraine and the Apostolic Administrator of the Buchach Eparchy of the UGCC were in attendance. During the session, work was...
- 02 December 2010
  12:03
- His Beatitude Lubomyr: Failing to unite our nation in the commemoration of the Holodomor shows that we have not fully matured as a nation "I am very pleased that the community and such prominent people gathered to properly commemorate the tragic event of the past. Thankfully the citizens are preserving the memory of the innocent victims. This memory will guarantee that this evil will never happen again in our future," said the head of the UGCC after the prayer service at the National Memorial...
- 02 December 2010
  12:00
- Head of the UGCC: the Law should help to a person to go strait to God and to serve others justly The canonists of twelve Greek Catholic eparchies of Ukraine discussed the state of the modern legal system in the UGCC, the prospects of developing its particular law, and the problems of Ukrainian canonical terminology. On November 26, 2010, a conference was held at the Ukrainian Catholic University on the occasion of 20th anniversary since the issuing...
- 29 November 2010
  11:27
- A Necessary and Solemn Commemoration In August and October of 1932 and January of 1933, Joseph Stalin, ruler of the Soviet Union, ordered increased mandatory quotas of foodstuffs to be shipped out of Ukraine and to other states of the Soviet Union. This was done until there was no food remaining in Ukraine, known as the breadbasket of Europe. Though the number has been estimated to be anywhere...
- 29 November 2010
  11:22
- Exhibition about the underground of UGCC moved to Chervonohrad On November 25, the exhibition "Toward the Light of Resurrection through the Thorns of Catacombs" opened in the Chervonohrad branch (Potocki Palace) of the Lviv History of Religion Museum. The exhibition is dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church’s emergence from the underground, informs senior research associate...
- 29 November 2010
  11:20
- Ukrainian World Congress sends letters to Kharkiv mayor and Ukrainian president to restore memorial plaque to Josyf Slipyj On November 25, the Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) sent a letter to Kharkiv Mayor Gennady Kernes and copies to President Viktor Yanukovych and Verkhovna Rada chair Volodymyr Lytvyn urging for the restoration of the memorial plaque honoring Patriarch Josyf Slipyj, which has been dismantled from the building of the former transit prison in Kharkiv, which...

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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

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