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- 28 October 2009
  12:08
- Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church The eleventh meeting of the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church took place in Paphos, Cyprus, a city with a rich history, having received three Apostles, Paul, Barnabas and Mark. The meeting took place from 16-23 October 2009, generously and fraternally hosted by the...
- 26 October 2009
  02:12
- Unique Church calendar for 2010 tells about the building of the Patriarchal Center of the UGCC At the beginning of November in all UGCC churches in Ukraine, with the aim to collect money for building the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ, a special church wall calendar will become available for the year 2010. This edition will be unique for never before has there been in printed form presented a chronology of the construction of the...
- 26 October 2009
  12:04
- Pilgrimage of the Control and Revision Office of the Ternopil' region to Zarvanytsya The pilgrimage of workers of the Control and Revision Office of Ternopil’ region to the Maria’s spiritual center of Zarvanytsya lasted for several days. Ninety-five workers and leaders of district administrations, led by Ihor Romankiv, the chief of the regional administration, took part in the pilgrimage. The Divine Liturgy in the Mother of God...
- 23 October 2009
  07:02
- Social Week of the UGCC From October 31 to November 6, 2009, in Kyiv, for the second time after the proclamation of independence, the Social Week of the UGCC will be held. The Social Week of the UGCC is a traditional public forum for the discussion of problems of society and to maintain Christian, religious, and human values....
- 22 October 2009
  01:00
- Head of the UGCC visited the Children’s Family House in Zolochiv, Lviv region On October 20, 2009, His Beatitude Lubomyr, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, visited the Children’s Family House of the Protection Veil of the Holy Mother of God in the city of Zolochiv. The sisters of the Immaculate Virgin Mary run the house and currently bring up 7 children. The head of the UGCC was accompanied by Reverend Bishop Bohdan...
- 22 October 2009
  12:59
- Bishops of the Roman Catholic and Greek Catholic Churches of Ukraine meet A joint meeting of the bishops of the Roman Catholic and Greek Catholic Churches of Ukraine took place on October 19-20, 2009. The meeting began with the Divine Liturgy in the Cathedral of Dormition of Holy Mother of God of the Roman Catholic Church of Lviv. Archbishop-metropolitan of Lviv Mechyslav Mokshytskyj led the Liturgy. The sermon was said by His...
- 22 October 2009
  12:56
- Head of the UGCC brought attention to the dignity and responsibility of doctors “Medicine in the wide sense of its use is an extraordinarily important part of human life because it is related with the greatest earthly good – the health of a human. Workers in this area have a special dignity, they are the instruments of God’s grace,” His Beatitude Lubomyr wrote in a congratulatory letter addressed to the presidents of the European...
- 19 October 2009
  02:23
- Plenary council of the presidents of the European Federation of the Catholic Medical Associations will come to Lviv On October 16-18, 2009, the plenary council of the presidents of European Federation of the Catholic Medical Associations (FEAMC) will take place in Lviv. Such councils are conducted one time every six months and their main task is to discuss ethical problems that are encountered in modern medicine and the ways of solving them from the position of the moral...
- 19 October 2009
  02:20
- Spiritual retreat for the clergy in Kazakhstan Recently the annual spiritual exercises and working meetings of Greek Catholic priests and sisters who work in Kazakhstan took place in Karaganda. The spiritual retreat for the clergy was led by Fr. Justyn Boyko, Studite, who arrived to Kazakhstan on the invitation of the Apostolic Delegate for the Greek Catholics in Kazakhstan and Central Asia Father...
- 16 October 2009
  11:44
- Ecological video message of Pope Benedict XVI to the UN The governments of states with fortitude have to protect the precious gift of Creation! With such an appeal Pope Benedict XVI in a special video message addressed the participants of a UN summit in New York on the issues of climate change.
- 16 October 2009
  11:42
- Meeting of the Ukrainian chaplains of Portugal On the day of the Protection Veil in the Nativity of the Mother of God Church of the city Lisbon took place a meeting of Ukrainian chaplains who minister in Portugal. Celebrating the Divine Liturgy, which was led by Fr. Anatoliy Zhyvchak, OSBM, all jointly prayed in a church service to the Holy Mother of God....
- 16 October 2009
  11:40
- National pilgrimage of Ukrainians to Saint Sofia in Rome has finished On October 11, 2009, the three-day International Pilgrimage of Ukrainians to the Cathedral of Saint Sofia in Rome came to an end. On this occasion, a festive Liturgy was held which brought together the largest number of pilgrims. The majority were from Rome and from other cities of Italy...
- 14 October 2009
  02:10
- The Greek Catholic of Berezhany honor a cross neglected by Soviet authority With the renewing of the dome, restoration work has begun in the former Bernardine Fathers Church (current parish of the Martyrs of Pratulyn) in the city Berezhany. The workers let down the ancient forged cross on which the shoulders were trimmed. The disdain of the holy relic happened after 1939 during Soviet rule when the monastery complex was passed to...
- 14 October 2009
  02:09
- Blessing of the icon devoted to Euro-2012 On October 8, 2009, in the city of Kolomyja there was an attempt to bring the Ukrainian Christian spirit and Ukrainian national flavor to the Euro-2012 soccer tournament. The specially painted icon of the Mother of God and the Child Jesus above a soccer field with the national symbols of the host countries of Euro-2012 — Ukraine and Poland — provoked a special...
- 14 October 2009
  02:06
- The international pilgrimage to the Cathedral of Saint Sofia in Rome has begun On October 9, 2009, the international three-day pilgrimage of Ukrainians to the Cathedral of Saint Sofia in Rome began. The pilgrimage takes place with the support and blessing of His Beatitude Lubomyr on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the blessing of the Cathedral of Saint Sofia in Rome......

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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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