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- 23 December 2009
  01:19
- His Beatitude Lubomyr greeted Ukrainian Salesians on their jubilee On Friday, December 18, 2009, His Beatitude Lubomyr, the head of the UGCC, visited the Main House of the Salesian Delegation in Ukraine, who greeted the Ukrainian sons of Father Bosco with the jubilee of the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the community. Before the arrival of the head of the UGCC, in the Salesian house in Lviv gathered all the Salesians...
- 21 December 2009
  01:23
- “Sobor” suggests top 10 the most influential Greek Catholics In Kyiv the rating of the ten the most influential people of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) was published. As the Sobor Media Group reports, the research was carried out by the Ukrainian Greek Catholic newspaper “Sobor.” His Beatitude Lubomyr led the ten Greek Catholics with the nomination “The Face of the Church,” and the third place was taken...
- 21 December 2009
  01:21
- The second “Window of Life” opens in Ukraine After a few incidents where mothers abandoned their newborns, leaving them in the trash, a decision was made to open another “Window of Life” in Lviv in the Hospital of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyj. It is a special place where a woman can anonymously leave a newborn, for whatever her reason.
- 20 December 2009
  10:23
- UGCC Synod of Bishops Proposes Model of Unity of Churches of St. Volodymyr’s Baptism On December 15, 2009, in Kyiv, in the press center Ukrainian Time of the Ukrainian House a press conference of His Beatitude Lubomyr, Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halych of the UGCC, was held. One of the main topics was the UGCC’s vision of the possibility of unifying the four branches of the Kyivan Church: the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate,...
- 17 December 2009
  03:19
- Head of the UGCC met with European representative of International Commission for Catholic Prison Pastoral Care Deacon Peter Ekhtermaer, chairman of the European representative office of the International Commission for Catholic Prison Pastoral Care (ICCPPC-EUROPE), recently completed a visit to Kyiv. His visit included a meeting with the head of UGCC with the participation of Reverend Bishop Bohdan (Dzyurakh), the head of Patriarchal Administration, and...
- 16 December 2009
  12:13
- Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church – 20 years since legalization: current status, prospects of development, challenges On December 15, 2009, in Kyiv, at the press center Ukrainian Time of the Ukrainian House (Khreschatyk Str., 2) at 10:00 the press conference of His Beatitude Lubomyr (Husar), Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halych of the UGCC, will take place. In 2009 the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church celebrated the 20th anniversary of its legalization, which took place...
- 14 December 2009
  07:19
- Metropolitan Lavrentiy (Hutsulyak) about the 20th anniversary since the legalization of the UGCC In 2009 the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church celebrated the 20th anniversary of legalization, which took place after decades of totalitarian prohibition and persecution. In a number of cities, such as Lviv, Drohobych, Ternopil’, Ivano-Frankivs’k, Sambir and others, solemn celebrations of this anniversary were conducted. The people recalled the...
- 11 December 2009
  11:10
- City administration of Sumy denied land apportionment for Greek Catholics The city administration of Sumy did not give permission for the land apportionment of a plot under construction of a church for the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. According to the project for the church 1.19 hectares of land on Krasnozvezdinska Street (square KRZ) were selected for apportionment. However, only five deputies voted in favor of the...
- 11 December 2009
  11:08
- Caritas of Ukraine won competition Philanthropist of the Year 2009 The international charity fund Caritas of Ukraine for the second year in a row became the winner of the competition Philanthropist of the Year 2009 in the charitable organization nomination. This information was revealed during the round table “Ukraine. Charity. 2009,” which took place today in the national preserve Sofia of Kyiv....
- 10 December 2009
  08:46
- The government simplified conditions of constructing buildings for religious organizations The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine exempted the construction of religious buildings and buildings necessary for their service from the payment of replacement cost of green planting. The government accepted the corresponding decision at its last meeting on November 25, considering the unprofitable status of religious organizations and their...
- 10 December 2009
  06:24
- Commemoration evening of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army at the Lviv Spiritual Seminary In the evening of December 8 in the Lviv Spiritual Seminary’s conference hall, a musical and poetic evening devoted to the memory of warriors of the UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army) was held. A theatrical performance with the participation of the seminary’s choir and brass band were prepared by second year students for the seminary’s community. ...
- 10 December 2009
  02:04
- Because of the UGCC Patriarch Kirill still does not want to meet with Pope Benedict XVI. What does it testify? Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) Department for External Church Relations on November 5, 2008, in an interview for a Russian TV channel stated the ROC is not against a meeting between its head, Patriarch Kirill, and Pope Benedict XVI but expects the Vatican to “take concrete steps” to show that there is a desire...
- 07 December 2009
  11:11
- Patriarchal Synod familiarized with the project “Shematyzm of the UGCC” “Everybody knows that we are in Ukraine and all over the world. It is good to know where we are, what we are, where we have communities, how are we organized, the structure of our life. This is information, but this information is not only administrative, it is, we might say, an image of the Church. This is a very practical book because not only is it possible to...
- 07 December 2009
  12:43
- Opening of official website of the UGCC in Kazakhstan The Information Department received an email with a report stating that the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Kazakhstan has launched its official web site at the address www.ugcc-kazakhstan.com. It is now possible to get direct information about life and activity of Greek Catholics in Kazakhstan from the web site....
- 04 December 2009
  11:18
- News from Brussels Recently on an invitation from the delegate of the Belgian Episcopal Commission “Pro Migrantibus” from the parishes of Eastern Catholic Churches in Belgium priest Oleh Zymak, CSSR, Apostolic Exarch for Ukrainians of France, Benelux, and Switzerland of the UGCC, Reverend Bishop Mikhail (Hrynchyshyn) visited Brussels and Antwerp. ...

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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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