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- 09 March 2010
  11:16
- Bishop Dionisiy (Liakhovych) takes part in the opening of the exhibition of the Ukrainian icon in Ancona On March 2, 2010, in the Italian town Ancona in the exhibition room of Mole Vanvitelliana took place the opening of the exhibition Golden Age of the Ukrainian Icon of the XVI-XVIII Centuries, will last until May 9, 2010. At the exhibition were presented 65 pieces of art – 40 icons, liturgical items, and church vestments – from the funds of the Kyiv Cave Preserve...
- 09 March 2010
  11:14
- Meeting of the Permanent Synod of UGCC will be held in Odesa On March 6-9, 2010, in Odesa, the Permanent Synod of the UGCC will meet. According to Bishop Bohdan (Dzyurakh), Secretary of the Synod, the main tasks of the synod are to review the implementation of decisions of the Synod of Bishops of UGCC which took place in 2009, to prepare for the next Synod of 2010, and to consider important questions of church life....
- 07 March 2010
  07:41
- Students of Kyiv were familiarized with the features of consecrated life On March 3, 2010, the students of the Kyiv University of Banking of the National Bank of Ukraine met with nuns. The sisters Yanuaria Isyk, OSBM, and Anastasia Balinska, SSMI, told the students about the history of monastic orders. In addition, every sister shared the story of her personal vocation. According to them, the sense of vocation is to serve to the...
- 07 March 2010
  07:39
- By summer the Patriarchal Pilgrimage Center will share its routes From the 44 pilgrimage places of the UGCC that have been visited by the monitoring group of the Patriarchal Pilgrimage Center, around 10 percent of the pilgrimage objects are ready for pilgrims, reports Mr. Dmytro Myronenko, the head of monitoring group of the Patriarchal Pilgrimage Center of the UGCC. Throughout February the group worked in the western...
- 03 March 2010
  11:32
- Ukrainians are grateful to the faithful of the Philadelphian Archeparchy of UGCC for the victory over the flu During the second wave of the flu epidemic the co-workers of Caritas Ukraine worked actively in order to prevent the spread of the disease. The help of the faithful of the Philadelphian Archeparchy of the UGCC allowed for the purchase of $40,000 worth in medications for the most susceptible groups of the population – children, elderly, AID’s patients....
- 03 March 2010
  11:30
- The UGCC for the first time honored Remembrance Day of Aborted Children On February 27 the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church honored the Remembrance Day of Aborted Children. This event was conducted as part of the Program of Counteracting Abortions in Ukraine, ratified at the forty-sixth session of the Synod of Bishops of Kyiv-Halych Major Archbishopric of the UGCC, which was conducted on September 13-14, 2009. “Our Church...
- 02 March 2010
  02:27
- In Truskavets over 15 thousand faithful prayed before Hlyniany’s miraculous icon On February 24, to the town of Truskavets, with the support of the charitable fund Truskavchany, the miraculous icon of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ arrived from Hlyniany. Thousands of faithful from nearby cities and villages came to Truskavets in order to touch the sacred icon and to ask for the Lord’s generous graces. As reported Fr. Vasyl Nester, the...
- 02 March 2010
  02:24
- Bishop Vasyl (Medvit) Describes the UGCC in Central and Eastern Ukraine to Canadians From February 23 to March 30, with the blessing of His Beatitude Lubomyr, the head of the UGCC, Bishop Vasyl’ (Medvit), auxiliary bishop of the Donetsk-Kharkiv Exarchate, will stay in Canada on an official visit. The visit takes place on the invitation of Bishop Stephan (Khmilyar), the eparch of Toronto. Bishop Stephan invited one of the bishops who...
- 02 March 2010
  02:22
- Top authorities of Ukraine greet the head of the UGCC on his birthday On February 26, 2010, His Beatitude Lubomyr, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, turned 77. As well as in previous years, with the exception of the celebration of his 75th birthday, the head of the UGCC spent this day working. However, what reminded of the fact that the day was a holiday were the numerous greetings from the bishops of the UGCC,...
- 02 March 2010
  02:19
- His Beatitude Lubomyr is 77 On February 26, 2010, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church turned 77. Considering the Great Lent and the full schedule of work, no special celebrations were planned. However, we ere reminded of this holiday by the numerous greetings from the bishops of the UGCC, priests, representatives of state and local authorities, and...
- 02 March 2010
  12:32
- Head of the UGCC took part in inauguration of newly elected President of Ukraine On February 25 the ceremony of inauguration of the President of Ukraine took place in the Supreme Council of Ukraine. The meeting was opened by the speaker of the parliament Volodymyr Lytvyn. In the hall of Parliament were present deputies from different fractions, the head of the Constitutional Court, the head of the Central Election Committee, and...
- 02 March 2010
  12:28
- The government reduced tariffs on public utilities for religious organizations The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on February 24, 2010, accepted a decision, in accordance to which tariffs on centralized heating and the supply of hot and cold water for religious organizations are set at the same level as that for the population. The Minister of Housing and Communal Utilities of Ukraine Oleksiy Kucherenko reported this to the...
- 23 February 2010
  03:05
- Head of the State Committee on Nationalities and Religions explained why the “Dognal Group” was not registered In the agency Ukrinform on February 18, the Ukrainian Association of Religious Freedom (UARF) conducted a press conference with the participation of Yurii Reshetnikov, the head of the State Committee on Nationalities and Religions, Viktor Yelenskii, president of the UARF, Petro Hanulich, the secretary general, and Oleksandr Zayets, the head of the...
- 23 February 2010
  03:03
- On February 27 is the Remembrance Day of Aborted Children In accordance to the Decisions of the Forty-Sixth Session of the Synod of Bishops of Kyiv-Halych Major Archbishopric of the UGCC, which took place on September 13-14, 2009, in Lviv-Briukhovychi, a Program of Counteracting Abortions was ratified in Ukraine. It was also decided for the realization of this program to create a Coordinating Council. Among...
- 23 February 2010
  02:59
- Commission in matters of the youth of the UGCC conducts Great Lent biblical readings In the Church of Holy Eucharist in Lviv starting from February 19, every Friday a Great Lent biblical reading “Follow me ...” will be conducted. On the first four Fridays of the Great Lent parts of the New Testament will be read, and on March 19 it will be possible to hear answers to the questions, which concern the read part of the biblical text....

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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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