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- 10 May 2010
  09:31
- Head of the UGCC Greeted Participants of a Conference on the History of the Greek Catholic Church in Volyn On May 6-9, 2010, the Institute of Church Research, together with several educational and public organizations, will conduct an international academic conference “Ut unum sint – May They Be One.” The conference is devoted to the history of the Greek Catholic Church in Volyn. The organizers hope to better understand the multi-confessional palette of...
- 10 May 2010
  09:29
- Remembrance Day, rather than Victory Day, was commemorated in Lviv On May 8, 2010, a commemoration of the victims of WWII was held at the Yaniv cemetery in Lviv. Since 2005 the Commission of the UGCC on Peace and Justice in cooperation with the Commission for Promoting Christian Unity annually organizes an event to put in order burial plots and hold an inter-religious prayer prayer for the dead at the place of the former Yaniv...
- 10 May 2010
  12:00
- Particulars of Pastoral Care for Ukrainian immigrants presented during European Migration Congress in Spain From April 26 to May 1, 2010, the 8th European Migration Congress of the Council of Bishops’ Conferences of Europe (Consilium Conferentiarum Episcoporum Europae - CCEE) was held in Malaga, Spain, that gathered over 100 participants from 23 countries of Europe. The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church was presented by Bishop Joseph (Milyan), head of the...
- 09 May 2010
  10:18
- Patriarch Lubomyr: “The real, final victory will become possible if we all will behave as people should” On the days of prayer on May 9 and 16 Patriarch Lubomyr (Husar), the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, addressed the faithful and all people of good will. In his address the primate brings attention to two events – the celebrations of the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II and the final victory over the Hitler regime as well as the Day of...
- 09 May 2010
  10:04
- Greek Catholics of Odesa were not invited to official May 9 events Greek Catholics of Odesa were not invited to official events on May 9, reported the correspondent to “SoborNews” Bishop Vasyl (Ivasyuk), eparch of the Odesa-Crimean Exarchate.
- 09 May 2010
  10:02
- “The activity of the Patriarchal Pilgrimage Center will strengthen the relations of Greek Catholics in the Diaspora with Ukraine,” Bishop Bohdan (Dzyurakh) In an interview for the magazine “Patriarchate,” Bishop Bohdan (Dzyurakh), the head of Administration of the Patriarchal Curia and secretary of Synod of Bishops of the UGCC, stated that a way to strengthen the connection of faithful outside of Ukraine with their native church in Ukraine is through the Patriarchal Pilgrimage Center, which was founded...
- 08 May 2010
  10:25
- “The Catholic Church has great expectations for the development of the UGCC,” Bishop Bohdan (Dzyurakh) Pope Benedict XVI in a letter to Patriarch Lubomyr (Husar) on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Lviv pseudo-synod declared that the Catholic Church has great expectations for the development of the UGCC. Bishop Bohdan (Dzyurakh), the head of the Administration of the Patriarchal Curia of the UGCC expressed this in an interview for the magazine...
- 08 May 2010
  01:19
- “The Catholic Church has great expectations for the development of the UGCC,” Bishop Bohdan (Dzyurakh) Pope Benedict XVI in a letter to Patriarch Lubomyr (Husar) on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Lviv pseudo-synod declared that the Catholic Church has great expectations for the development of the UGCC. Bishop Bohdan (Dzyurakh), the head of the Administration of the Patriarchal Curia of the UGCC expressed this in an interview for the magazine...
- 07 May 2010
  01:53
- Gas cut off and water threatened to be cut off for a UGCC Church in Odesa, even though all bills were paid on time The information agency MOST-Odessa has informed the chancellor of the Odesa-Crimean exarchate of the UGCC Father Volodymyr Zhdan that gas was cut off and water was threatened to be cut off for a UGCC church in Odesa. According to the priest, regular visits of representatives of city’s public utility began right after Patriarch Lubomyr (Husar) left Odesa....
- 29 April 2010
  10:14
- Pastoral Missionary Department of the Patriarchal Curia acquainted with spiritual life of Ukrainians in Portugal On April 9-21, 2010, Bishop Joseph (Milyan), the head of the Pastoral Missionary Department of the Patriarchal Curia, auxiliary bishop of Kyivan Archeparchy of the UGCC, and Fr. Vasyl Potochnyak, the secretary general of the department, visited the cities with large communities of Ukrainian immigrants in Portugal....
- 29 April 2010
  10:08
- All interested can become co-authors of the third audio book of the Head of UGCC “Already there is an idea to make a third book – ‘The Road to God,’” reported the head of the UGCC in an interview to Novynar. The feature of the future book will be that every interested person will be able to submit a question from a selected topic by email ([email protected] with a note: for the audio book “The Road to God”), or on the specially created theme on...
- 23 April 2010
  11:10
- Bishop coadjutor of Sambir-Drohobych Eparchy of the UGCC appointed We report that on April 21, 2010, His Beatitude Lubomyr (Husar), Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halych, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, with the consent of the Synod of Bishops of the UGCC that took place on November 29 to December 5, 2009, and having reported to the Apostolic Capital, brought Reverend Bishop Yaroslav (Pryriz), titular bishop of...
- 23 April 2010
  11:07
- A new Christian television program “Signs of the Time” On the Ivano-Frankivsk regional TV channel Halychyna on the benediction of Bishop Volodymyr (Viytyshyn), Eparch of Ivano-Frankivsk, a new Christian program “Signs of the Time” created by the Christian TV studio Apostle with support by the publishing house Nova Zorya and the Youth Commission of the Ivano-Frankivsk Eparchy of UGCC is being aired. The...
- 21 April 2010
  11:51
- The ninth edition of “Blahovisnyk” Recently the ninth edition of “Blahovisnyk [Good News] of Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halych His Beatitude Lubomyr Patriarch Husar” was published. The publication includes all the most important documents of the life of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church for 2009. The publication was founded by Patriarch Joseph Slipyj and later supported by Myroslav...
- 21 April 2010
  11:48
- Delegation of the UGCC honored the perished Polish chaplains On April 19 the delegation of the UGCC, including the Bishop Mikhail (Koltun), the head of the Department of Patriarchal Curia of UGCC on matters of Pastoral Care in the Power Structures of Ukraine, and Fr. Lubomyr Yavorskiy, deputy of the head of the department, took part in the solemn prayer for the deceased military chaplains of the Republic Poland who...

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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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