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- 25 January 2010
  05:05
- Orthodox, Catholics, and Protestants of Lviv will gather together for a joint prayer On January 21, 2010, at 5 p.m. in the chapel of Ukrainian Catholic University, Sventsitskoho Str. 17, an interdenominational prayer will take place. The event will be conducted as part of the worldwide Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, which takes place from January 18 to 25.
- 20 January 2010
  01:17
- Festival “Christmas in the heart” is again in Ternopil’ On January 24, with the benediction of Bishop Vasyliy (Semenyuk) of the Eparchy of Ternopil'-Zboriv, a festival “Christmas in the heart” will take place. The event will be conducted in the cultural center Berezil' at 3 p.m.
- 20 January 2010
  01:16
- Reward of the President of Ukraine Conferred on Bishop Volodymyr (Viytyshyn) On January 15, 2010, in the session hall of the Ivano-Frankivs’k regional council, Bishop Volodymyr (Viytyshyn), Eparch of Ivano-Frankivs’k, received the reward of the President of Ukraine the “Order for Merits of the III degree.”
- 20 January 2010
  11:36
- His Beatitude Lubomyr shared the Christmas prosphoron for the third time On January 16, 2010, in Kyiv, in the International Exhibition Center, which is located near the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ, His Beatitude Lubomyr, Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halych, received guests to share with them the Christmas prosphoron. The participants of the celebration were bishops, priests, laity, representatives...
- 20 January 2010
  11:34
- Celebration of St. Basil the Great in the Kyivan Archeparchy In the day of feast of St. Basil the Great, on January 14, men’s and women’s communities of the Order of Saint Basil the Great (OSBM) in Ukraine renew their monastic vows, in order to once again declare their devotion to God and at the same time in a special way the Basilian fathers pray for God’s blessing and zealous vocation to the monastic life....
- 15 January 2010
  11:13
- Ukrainian Christmas celebrated in Oslo On Saturday, January 9, 2010, the Ukrainian community, in the city of Oslo, Norway, celebrated Ukrainian Christmas. It has already become a tradition of the local Ukrainian community to meet together at Christmas time.
- 15 January 2010
  11:08
- The commander of UNF of Ukraine visited a military church On January 12, 2009, as part of a working visit to the Academy of Ground Forces, the commander of the Ukrainian Naval Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine admiral Ihor Tenyukh visited the Michael the Archistratege Church, which operates near the educational institution.
- 11 January 2010
  04:05
- Head of the UGCC asked the faithful to pray for God’s blessing on the eve of the elections “I invite you all today and every day before the presidential elections of Ukraine in your prayers to very cordially ask the Lord for the best fate for our state. God loves us, God wants good for us, and we, from our side, with prayer express our faith, conviction that we are in God’s hands,” said His Beatitude Lubomyr in his sermon for the feast of the Holy Mother...
- 09 January 2010
  03:09
- “Metropolitan Andrey” on “UТ-1” (УТ-1) On January 10, 2010, at 6:40 p.m., at the First National Channel, a showing of of Oles’ Yanchuk’s film “Metropolitan Andrey” will take place. The first presentation of the film took place on August 23, 2008, in the capital’s movie theater Kyiv. According to the thought of the director, the film had to cover the whole life of Metropolitan Andrey – from him as...
- 06 January 2010
  12:48
- The Election of the President of Ukraine to be One of the Most Important Events of 2001 – Patriarch Lubomyr Traditionally, on New Year’s Eve, in the church of Annunciation of the Holy Mother of God, which is located on the territory of future Patriarch’s Center of the UGCC in Kyiv a memorial prayer service was celebrated. The prayer service began at 5 p.m. and was led by His Beatitude Lubomyr, Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halych. With the head of the UGCC concelebrated...
- 03 January 2010
  10:15
- Head of the UGCC about the Year of Christian vocation with an accent on consecrated life The year 2010 according to the decisions of the Synod of Bishops of the UGCC, which was held on November 29 through December 5, 2009, in Lviv, will again be the Year of Christian vocation, but with an accent on the vocation to a consecrated life. As we reported before, in 2008 the Church emphasized Christian vocation in general. “Everybody has some vocation...
- 31 December 2009
  11:48
- A Ukrainian received second place in an international artistic competition of prison art On the day before Christmas by the Gregorian Calendar, the International Society of “Art and Prison” published the names of winners of the international competition “By the Eyes of Others.” We are glad to see among the winners the name of an author from Ukraine, Diana Kamlyuk, who was recognized by the judge of the competition and received a special prize....
- 25 December 2009
  12:34
- “Our desire is to return to the primary unity”: His Beatitude Lubomyr “Christ’s Church in Ukraine, when Christianity was finally accepted by Saint Volodymyr at the end of the 10th century, was one. With the passing of time, especially in the last decades, this Church was divided and our desire is to return to the primary unity,” His Beatitude Lubomyr said in an interview for radio “Resurrection,” commenting on the initiative...
- 25 December 2009
  12:29
- Council of Higher Mother Superiors of women institutes of consecrated life chose new Administration On December 20-21, 2009, at the Retreat Center of the Lviv Archeparchy in Bryukhovychi, a plenary meeting of higher mother superiors of women institutes of consecrated life of the UGCC took place in Ukraine.
- 24 December 2009
  05:29
- Saint Nicholas Day celebrated in penitentiary institutions The most favorable days to conduct holidays in the penitentiary institutions are Saturday and Sunday. Exactly on those days, on December 19 and 20, prison chaplains of the UGCC, with the assistance of numerous donators and with the participation of many lay volunteers, brought the joy of Saint Nicholas Day to the imprisoned and condemned....

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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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