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- 12 September 2010
  10:55
- Foundation of New University Campus to be Blessed The Ukrainian Catholic University begins construction on a new university campus in Lviv. On September 5, 2010, a capsule in the foundation of the residence and academic buildings will be blessed and placed in ground. Later, a university church and pastoral center will be built.
- 12 September 2010
  10:54
- Magazine Korrespondent Ranks Influence of the Head of the UGCC The magazine Korrespondent published a list of the most influential Ukrainians. In 53rd place is the head of the UGCC His Beatitude Lyubomyr. Sixteen analysts in the different regions of Ukraine worked on the rating. As Korrespondent notes, the church headed by His Beatitude Lubomyr “does not attract new faithful in a way done by untraditional...
- 12 September 2010
  10:52
- All of Metropolitan Sheptytsky’s Pastoral Messages Have Been Published All 250 pastoral messages of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky of the UGCC from 1899 to 1944, which are kept in the Ukrainian and western archives, were published. Several days ago the third volume of works of the metropolitan written in 1939-1944 came out. During five years Halychyna was occupied Archbishop Andrey wrote 95 messages, almost as many as he...
- 12 September 2010
  10:50
- The Synod of Bishops of UGCC studied the question of migration “According to research conducted during 2008-2009 by researchers at the assistance of International charitable fund Caritas Ukraine, since independence, the search for a ‘better life’ outside of the country drove out nearly 5 million Ukrainians. Other sources say 7 million. Among the latter is information from the State Institute of Statistics....
- 12 September 2010
  10:49
- New bishop of the UGCC Ordained The hirotony of Benedict (Aleksiychuk) was conducted on September 5 in the Cathedral of St. Yur in Lviv at a liturgy in the presence of Patriarch Lubomyr, members of the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the clergy and faithful. The bishop's ordination was administered by Archbishop Ihor (Vozniak) of Lviv. On September 4 the bishop...
- 12 September 2010
  10:48
- Project of Catechism of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church to be Presented to the Synod Soon the world will see the first edition of Catechism of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. The work on the text, which was coordinated by the Patriarchal Catechetic Committee, lasted for nearly 9 years. Its result will be presented to the Synod of Bishops of UGCC that takes place on September 2-9, 2010, in Lviv-Bryukhovychi The planned number of copies is 50...
- 12 September 2010
  10:44
- Synod was familiarized with the state of the Patriarchal Cathedral and discussed particular law Questions of the state and prospects of building of the Patriarchal Center in Kyiv were some of the questions examined at the Synod of Bishops of the UGCC on September 6, reported Bishop Bohdan (Dzyurakh), Secretary of Synod of Bishops of UGCC. The report on the last year was presented by Bishop Joseph (Milyan), head of Supervisory Council of building the...
- 12 September 2010
  10:43
- Children congratulate newly ordained hierarch School children of the St. Sophia School in Lviv congratulated Bishop Benedict (Aleksiychuk) on his ordination after a celebratory Liturgy in the metropolitan chambers on Saint George Hill.
- 12 September 2010
  10:42
- First course students blessed by Ukrainian hierarchies On September 4, at the Academy of Ground Forces, 274 first course students took the military oath to serve the Ukrainian nation. During the several next years they receive a military education in four faculties of this higher military educational institution.
- 12 September 2010
  10:41
- UGCC Helps Not Only Emigrants but also Immigrants “Considering the state’s inactivity, the initiative of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is very urgent and necessary. Workers both abroad and in Ukraine have a difficult time adapting to life. We need a support to save our Ukrainian family. That which is happening in our society we consider genocide, as the destruction of our family,” said Mrs. Oksana...
- 12 September 2010
  10:40
- The Synod of Bishops looks at exhibition on the underground of the UGCC On September 8 the members of the Synod of Bishops of the UGCC had a chance to learn about the exhibition devoted to the 20th anniversary of the legalization of the UGCC. The photo exhibit, “Toward the Light of Resurrection through the Thorns of Catacombs,” was prepared by the Institute of Church History of the Ukrainian Catholic University....
- 12 September 2010
  10:37
- “We are creating one Ukrainian ‘globalized’ Church,” Bishop Volodymyr (Kovbych) from Brazil “For me it matters that we are creating and that we have to create one Ukrainian ‘globalized’ church, because it is all over the world,” reported Bishop Volodymyr (Kovbych), Eparch of Kurytyba UGCC, in an interview with the Information Department of UGCC. The bishop, together with two auxiliary bishops, arrived from Brazil to participate in the Synod of...
- 12 September 2010
  10:36
- UGСC to participate in the World Ecological Day of the Creator On 14 September, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church traditionally participates in the celebration of the World Ecological Day of the Creator. Greek Catholic churches will pray for the conservation of nature on that day.
- 12 September 2010
  10:35
- The Supreme Council registered a bill about granting the UGCC the status of a repressed Church A draft resolution on granting the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church the status of a repressed church has been submitted to the consideration of the Supreme Council of Ukraine on September 8. Resolution 7104 was registered by deputies of Yulia Tymoshenko's Motherland faction, V. Derevlianyi and D. Shlemko, reports ZAXID.NET....
- 12 September 2010
  10:33
- "Ukrainian migration to Australian began only 65 years ago." Bishop Petro (Stasyuk) "I believe that it is very important to educate and to inform people who emigrate from Ukraine to Australia so they understood that head for a foreign land. Maybe the people who go to the Ukrainian community in Australia hope that it will be the same as it was at home. But it is worth remembering that Ukrainian migration to Australia began only 65 years ago,"...

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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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