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- 02 April 2010
  01:30
- Holy Thursday Vespers Liturgy at St. George's Church in New York, NY On Holy Thursday, April 1, 2010, Most Rev. Paul Chomnycky, OSBM, eparch of Stamford, Most. Rev. Basil H. Losten, eparch emeritus, together with the priests from three Stamford eparchy deanaries, celebrated the Vespers Liturgy at St. George's pro-cathedral in New York, NY.
- 02 April 2010
  01:09
- Youth Day took place in the Ternopil-Zboriv Eparchy On March 27, by prayer services in the Cathedral Church of Ternopil began the celebrations of the Youth Day. The event took place on the benediction of Bishop Vasyl (Semenyuk), the eparch of Ternopil-Zborivs, and the organizers were the Commission on Matters of the Youth, the Ternopil Patriarch Joseph Slipyj Spiritual Seminary, and Obnova....
- 02 April 2010
  01:07
- Representatives of Main Christian Denominations jointly called Ukrainians to go to church on Easter During a joint press conference in Kyiv, Bishop Joseph (Milyan), auxiliary bishop of Kyivan Archeparchy of UGCC, Bishop Evstratiy (Zorya), head of the information and publishing department of the UOC-KP, and proto presbyter Hryhoriy Kovalenko, head of the Synod Information and Education Department of the UOC-MP, called Ukrainians to uphold the...
- 02 April 2010
  01:03
- Patriarchal Pilgrimage Center to make the priority of pilgrimage “on entry” Work “on entry,” that is the organization of pilgrimage by sacred places, which are on the territory of Ukraine, is a priority for the Patriarchal Pilgrimage Center, reported the head of executive working group of the Patriarchal Pilgrimage Center of the UGCC in an interview for the Information Department of the UGCC, Dmytro Myronenko. For today,...
- 02 April 2010
  01:01
- The 49th Session of the Synod of Bishops of the Kyiv-Halych Major Archbishopric of the UGCC The 49th session of the Synod of the Bishops of the Kyiv-Halych Major Archbishopric of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church took place in Lviv-Bryukhovychi, on March, 24-25, 2010. At the synod were present all Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishops that work on the territory of Ukraine, except for Bishop Vasyl’ (Medvit) who is on an official visit in Canada. At the...
- 02 April 2010
  12:58
- Bishops of the UGCC call Yanukovych to secure equality of all churches before the law The Synod of Bishops of the Kyiv-Halych Supreme Archbishopric of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC passed an address to President Viktor Yanukovych with a call to ensure the equality of all churches and religious organizations of Ukraine before the law. The UGCC is concerned because the tradition to invite heads of all Ukrainian churches to the...
- 30 March 2010
  07:03
- His Beatitude Lubomyr greeted Lina Kostenko on her jubilee The head of the UGCC sent a greeting to the celebrated Ukrainian woman writer Lina Kostenko on the occasion of the 80th jubilee. Text of the greeting was read from the stage of the Ukrainian House, where on March 22 the jubilee edition of Lina Kostenko’s novel “Berestechko” was presented. As reported on the internet newspaper “Ukrainian Truth,” the...
- 27 March 2010
  11:36
- Head of the UGCC to invite faithful to joint in preparation of main theme of the Synod of Bishops On March 26, 2010, at 10:00 a.m. in Lviv, in Metropolitan’s chambers on St. George Mount (St. George Square, 5), a press conference will take place with the participation of His Beatitude Lubomyr, head of the UGCC. The theme of the press conference is “Immigration: the task of the church in ministering for immigrants.” Immigration is the main theme of the...
- 27 March 2010
  11:25
- Lenten pilgrimage to Philadelphia On Tuesday, March 23 the staff of St. Basil College, the Eparchial Chancery Office, Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate and friends made a Lenten pilgrimage to the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Philadelphia where an exact photographic copy of the Shroud of Turin - one of very few sanctioned by the Vatican - is being displayed...
- 24 March 2010
  08:38
- German experts will study immigration while staying with Ukrainian families On March 16-18, the Commission of the UGCC on Matters of Immigrants received the specialists from Germany – representatives of the charitable Catholic organization Renovabis. In the meeting took part Natalia Holyns’ka of Caritas of Sambir-Drohobych and Natalia Kozankevych of the Ivano-Frankivsk Eparchy of the UGCC. This three-day meeting of the...
- 24 March 2010
  08:36
- Chaplains take part in conference of Sevastopol Union of Ukrainian Officers In the past few days, in the P. S. Nakhimov Sevastopol Military Academy with the participation of military chaplains who represented different denominations (the UGCC by Fr. Mykola Kvych...
- 24 March 2010
  08:33
- Exhibition in Lviv about the liquidation, underground activity, and revival of the UGCC On March 23, 2010, at 4:00 p.m. in the Andrey Sheptytskyj National Museum in Lviv (Prospect Svobody, 20) will be the opening of an exhibition dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the legalization of the UGCC “Toward the Light of Resurrection through the Thorns of Catacombs.” The photo exhibition, which was prepared by the Institute of Church History of the...
- 22 March 2010
  01:20
- Pope Benedict XVI appoints Bishop Milan (Shashik) Eparch of Mukachevo Greek Catholic Eparchy On March 17, 2010, the Vatican reported that Pope Benedict XVI appointed the titular Bishop of Bononia and Apostolic Administrator ad nutum Sanctae Sedis of the Mukachevo Greek Catholic Eparchy, Milan Shashik, the eparch of the eparchy.
- 22 March 2010
  09:32
- Brief Report on the activity of UGCC commissions in the first quarter of 2010 On March 16, 2010, a meeting of the heads of the UGCC commissions, which was led by Father Petro Rak, head of Department of Church Commissions, was held in the conference hall of the Lviv Archeparchy. After the joint prayer, each of the participants of the meeting reported about their work in the last quarter and shared plans for future activity. In...
- 22 March 2010
  09:24
- Days of spiritual retreat in Rome, organized by the UGCC On March 12-13, 2010, in Rome, the Pope Saint Clement Ukrainian Catholic University of the Ukrainian St. Sofia Cathedral held the Days of Spiritual Retreat. The main preacher was Fr. Taras Barschevskyj, deputy director of the catechistical-pedagogical institute of UCU in Lviv, head of theological night-school of the same institute, and coordinator 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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