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- 04 December 2009
11:15 - Greek Catholics were familiarized with social projects of other confessions As part of the Social Days of the UGCC Greek Catholics visited the social projects of other confessions, informed Deacon Ihor Shaban, head of the Commission of UGCC for the assistance of unity between Christians, as was reported by the correspondent SoborNews.
- 04 December 2009
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- 01 December 2009
10:49 - Sisters servants organized a literary evening devoted to the works of Lina Kostenko On November 21, 2009, at the House of the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate in Kyiv, a literary-musical evening devoted to the works of Lina Kostenko, organized by the sisters Maryana Shiposh and Olya Petrashyk, took place. The event gathered many admirers of the works of the poetesses among which was also the youth community of the Church of Saint Nicolas...
- 01 December 2009
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- 01 December 2009
10:30 - Patriarchal Synod of Bishops of the UGCC has started its work “When we obtain a plenitude of the Sacrament of Priesthood, a triple task appears before us: to be a teacher, a person who blesses, and a pastor for the people who have trust in us. These tasks can be analyzed and discussed to find which of them is the most important. But, presumably, first of all we have to consider the words of Jesus Christ, directed to the...
- 01 December 2009
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- 30 November 2009
09:32 - In St. Sofia a joint prayer for victims of the Holodomor On Remembrance Day of victims of the Holodomor in the St. Sofia Cathedral in Kyiv took place a joint inter-confessional prayer for those who died from hunger. The prayer was conducted by the heads and authorized representatives of churches and religious organizations of Ukraine. From the side of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church for the victims of the...
- 30 November 2009
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- 30 November 2009
09:26 - In Kirovohrad foundation stone of church was blessed On November 22, 2009, Bishop Vasyl (Ivasyuk), the exarch of Odesa and Crimea, blessed in Kirovohrad the foundation stone of the building of the Nativity of John the Baptist Church. Faithful met the bishop according to the Ukrainian custom with bread and salt, and the pastor of the newly built chapel Fr. Ivan Tretyak invited the bishop to celebrate a Divine...
- 30 November 2009
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- 30 November 2009
09:20 - Children of the Ukrainian schools of Antwerp and Brussels visited the Embassy of Ukraine On the invitation of Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ukraine in the Kingdom of Belgium, Y. Eks. Eugene Bersheda, the children of two Ukrainian schools of Antwerp and Brussels, and also teachers and parents, visited the Embassy of Ukraine. This was the first event of its kind, which was specially organized by the Ukrainian Ambassador for...
- 30 November 2009
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- 28 November 2009
01:50 - Greek Catholics invite to ecumenical prayer In the Greek Catholic parishes, on the Remembrance Day of victims of the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine, memory prayers for the deceased will be held. According to Deacon Ihor Shaban, the head of Commission of the UGCC for assistance of unity between the Christians, it is very important that the society remembers the Ukrainian martyrs and values those...
- 28 November 2009
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- 25 November 2009
07:59 - The Vatican’s new policy on garbage – an example to follow At a time when many cities of the world have considerable problems with domestic waste, the Vatican state, already for the second year, is successfully carrying out a program of separating and recycling garbage. From year to year millions of tourists and pilgrims visit the Vatican. Here they are enriched with feelings, spiritually renewed, receive...
- 25 November 2009
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- 23 November 2009
08:35 - Pilgrimage to Khars’k, the burial place of the holy martyrs Olimpia and Lavrentia Recently the faithful of parishes of Siberia went to the settlement of Khars’k, which is situated 300 km from the city Toms’k. In the 1950s two nuns of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Olimpia Bida and Lavrentia Garasymiv, were deported here and died. In 2001 they were proclaimed blessed by Pope John Paul II....
- 23 November 2009
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- 23 November 2009
08:32 - Saint Nicolas is in each of us According to the good tradition the Caritas of the Sambir-Drohobych Eparchy began the charitable project “Saint Nicolas is in each of us” to help those in need and mentally disabled children. With the money collected during the action Caritas will make gifts for the children, who will be able to stay in this fairy tale night without a small miracle that every...
- 23 November 2009
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- 21 November 2009
12:42 - Requiem mass for the victims of Holodomor in Ukraine was held in Brussels A Requiem mass for the victims of the Holodomor in Ukraine of 1932-1933 was held in Brussels. The requiem took place at the St. Michael and St. Gudula Cathedral. During the requiem mass Reverend Bishop Mikhail (Hrynchyshyn), bishop for the Ukrainians of France, Benelux, and Switzerland of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, led the Divine Liturgy and...
- 21 November 2009
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- 21 November 2009
12:39 - His Beatitude Lubomyr met with the president of the Biblical Society and members of the administration On November 18, 2009, a meeting of His Beatitude Lubomyr, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, took place at the office of the patriarchal curia with Hryhoriy Komendant, president of the Biblical society, and the members of the administration. During the meeting the issue of further cooperation of the Biblical Society and the Ukrainian Greek...
- 21 November 2009
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- 19 November 2009
12:37 - President of Ukraine expressed his gratitude to the Eparch of Ivano-Frankivs’k of the UGCC On November 13, 2009, in the building of CF “Caritas, Ivano-Frankivs’k UGCC,” the representatives of local authorities – Mr. Oleh Korzhak, vice chairman of Ivano-Frankivs’k RSA, Mr. Zenoviy Shkutyak, people’s deputy of Ukraine, and Mrs. Tetyana Lapka, chief of the department on matters of religions of the Ivano-Frankivs’k RSA – received the gratitude...
- 19 November 2009
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- 19 November 2009
12:35 - The Patriarchal Cathedral is also built with paper “bricks” On November 15, 2009, through the distribution of “bricks” for the building of the Patriarchal Cathedral, 850,429 UAH were counted. The Information Department received this information from Fr. Vasyl Vil'chyk, the head of the collection department of the Committee of Assistance for the Development of the Patriarchal Center. The largest sum of money...
- 19 November 2009
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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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