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- 08 October 2010
  09:58
- Number of parishioners of UGCC in London and Dublin increases According to the Apostolic Administrator for the Exarchate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Great Britain and the Apostolic Visitator for Ireland, Bishop Hlib (Lonchyna), the number of the parishioners of UGCC in these countries is on the increase. The increase is primarily due to activization of the Ukrainians who came to England during the...
- 28 September 2010
  04:20
- Bishop Joseph (Milyan): Seven Million Ukrainians are Migrant Workers During the international discussion “Prospects of the Euro Dialogue in the Migratory Sphere: The Participation of the Church” on September 24 Bishop Joseph (Milyan), the head of the Pastoral and Missionary Department of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church reported that seven million Ukrainians are migrant workers....
- 24 September 2010
  09:29
- Employees of State Criminal Executive Service of Ukraine pray for justice, faith, and mercy The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in cooperation with the State Department of Ukraine for the Enforcement of Sentences will conduct a pilgrimage for the workers of the penitentiary system of Ukraine to the Saint Dormition Monastery of Univ (Lviv region). “Justice, Faith, Mercy!” is the name of the annual pilgrimage. This year it will take place on the...
- 24 September 2010
  09:26
- The 8th Congress of the European Marian Network held in Gibraltar Representatives of twenty Marian sanctuaries of Europe on September 13-18 gathered in Gibraltar. The basic theme of the 8th meeting of the members of European Marian Network was spiritual pilgrimage and interdenominational and interreligious relations. The Marian spiritual center of Zarvanytsia was presented by the administrator Father Volodymyr...
- 24 September 2010
  09:18
- University church blessed in Ivano-Frankivsk On September 21, the Nativity of the Holy Mother of God, Bishop Volodymyr (Viytyshyn), Eparch of Ivano-Frankivsk, blessed the newly built church in the city Ivano-Frankivsk. This church will serve for the spiritual formation of students of the city. A large monastery and church of Redemptorists stood in this place until 1946 when Soviet troops arrived in...
- 24 September 2010
  09:14
- Archbishop of Lviv visits Oath Ceremony on the Day of the Rescuer On September 17, 2010, Bishop Ihor (Voznyak), Archbishop of Lviv of the UGCC, visited the swearing-in ceremony of students of the Lviv State University of Life Safety of the Emergency Ministry of Ukraine. To continue their service with honor, 200 students, including 26 girls, took the oath of allegiance to the people of Ukraine....
- 24 September 2010
  09:03
- First Kyivan seminarians of UGCC began their studies with a Divine Liturgy The first seminarians began their school year at the Kyivan spiritual seminary of the Three Sanctifies of the UGCC with a Divine Liturgy, which was celebrated on Sunday in Kyiv, in the Church of the Annunciation of the Holy Mother of God near the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ. The liturgy was led by Bishop Joseph (Milyan), auxiliary...
- 23 September 2010
  09:39
- Patriarch Lubomyr on the situation in Odesa: ‘If the authority makes an unacceptable decision for us, let it be deservingly explained’ The head of the UGCC Patriarch Lubomyr (Husar) commented on the situation regarding the building of a UGCC church in Odesa in an interview for UNIAN. “Currently there are two matters. The first one is to listen to the public: the locals must express their opinions about the benefit, or vice versa, of a church. Although, as far as we know, such a procedure will...
- 23 September 2010
  09:35
- Archbishop of Madrid visits Ukrainian parish On September 13, the Ukrainian parishioners of Madrid’s church Nuestra Senora del Buen Suсeso (Mothers of God of Good New) welcomed а venerable guest – Archbishop of Madrid, Cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco Varela. He arrived to the faithful from Ukraine to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the first Ukrainian parish in Spain....
- 21 September 2010
  09:25
- “Talk about Catechism is talk about the identity of our Church,” Bishop Petro (Stasyuk) “Talk about Catechism is talk about the identity of our Church. Many people think that they know what our Church is, know its essence, its history. When we look closer, we see that our church has changed in the last 100 years, and that is because there was a lot of influence that was foreign to our Church’s rite, but in some way we have appropriated them,” said...
- 21 September 2010
  09:23
- Department of External Relations of the UGCC in Ukraine presented at meeting of the heads of commissions of the UGCC The meeting of the heads of commissions of the UGCC was held on September 15 in Lviv. “We are very glad that in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church there are people who have the proper training and excel in their work,” said Bishop Ihor (Voznyak), Archbishop of Lviv. At the beginning of the meeting Bishop Ihor read two decrees from Patriarch Lubomyr (Husar)....
- 21 September 2010
  09:19
- UGCC celebrates the Day of God the Creator On September 14 (1) Christians worldwide celebrated the Day of God the Creator. The initiative to protect the environment was begun in 1989 by Ecumenical Patriarch Dimitrios I. For the second time in many churches of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic various divine services in honor of the holiday, educational and practical ecological events were conducted....
- 21 September 2010
  09:17
- Youth pilgrimage to Vyshgorod Every year in September a youth pilgrimage to Vyshgorod is held. This year the pilgrimage included a bicycle route. The bicycle pilgrimage began in the city Irpin and 20 bicycle pilgrims rode 40 km. The pedestrian pilgrimage started in Kyiv and all pilgrims met in the town of Vyshhorod.
- 19 September 2010
  01:09
- Head of the UGCC: We must be active during elections Every election campaign is an interesting thing. From election to election we see a certain improvement, stated the Head of UGCC His Beatitude Lubomyr on September 10 in Lviv at a press conference about the Synod of Bishops of the UGCC. Certainly, according to the head of the UGCC, this improvement is very slow. But could it be faster? “In fact we are in the...
- 19 September 2010
  01:06
- Reception marking the 19th anniversary of the Independence of Ukraine held in the Vatican On September 8 a celebratory reception was held to mark the 19th anniversary of the Independence of Ukraine, organized by the Embassy of Ukraine of the Holy See. Representatives of authorities of the Vatican and different Vatican institutions, the Maltese order, and ambassadors and diplomatic body accredited by the Vatican took part in the reception....

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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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