NEWS of the UGCC news

- 06 April 2009
  01:22
- On Palm Sunday on the First National TV Channel watch «Audience.» The program participant will be the Head of the UGCC On Palm Sunday, April 12, 2009, at 14:20, the First National TV Channel will show the Nadiya Baziv program «Audience.» A participant of «Audience» on this festive day will be His Beatitude Lubomyr, Head of the UGCC. The participants will discuss Easter, Easter traditions, and also various aspects of church and public life....
- 06 April 2009
  01:18
- A lecture tour to prepare pastors for work with immigrants and members of their families has started On April 1, 2009, in Drohobych, under the leadership of Bishop Julian Voronovskyj and his auxiliary, Bishop Yaroslav Pryriz, the deans of the Sambir-Drohobych Eparchy took part in a new initiative of the Commission of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in Matters of Immigrants.
- 04 April 2009
  12:50
- Bishop Bohdan (Dzyurakh) informs faithful of the UGCC in Canada about the status of the construction of the Patriarchal Center in Kyiv From March 25 to April 13, Bishop Bohdan (Dzyurakh), head of the Supervisory Council of the Construction of the Patriarchal Center of the UGCC in Kyiv, auxiliary bishop of the Kyiv Archeparchy, is in Canada. The trip has a double purpose, according to Bishop Bohdan. "Foremost, I want to become acquainted with the life of our Church in Canada, because, at the...
- 04 April 2009
  12:48
- A new web resource for the marine chaplains of the UGCC The Union of Marine Chaplains of the UGCC in Australia and New Zealand officially presents its new internet-portal, www.vmission.net, through which it carries out pastoral work. The primary purpose of the web project is to make preaching God’s word among sailors more practical and popular. Marine chaplains hope that this initiative will make a...
- 30 March 2009
  08:47
- The mass-media on the ceremonies at Majdanek The ceremonies which took place on March 25, 2009, on the site of the former Nazi concentration camp of Majdanek, Poland, as part of marking the 65th anniversary of the death of Blessed Martyr Fr. Emilian Kowcz found resonance in the mass-media in Ukraine and Poland. TV, radio, print and electronic media on the air and in columns told about the example of...
- 30 March 2009
  08:41
- By turning off unnecessary lighting and domestic electrical appliances for one hour, we will make our contribution to the rescue of the Earth The Bureau of the Kyiv-Halych Major Archbishopric of the UGCC on Questions of Ecology asks all those who are not indifferent to join the world action "Earth Hour." The essence of the action, initiated by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), is on Saturday March 28 at 20:30 for one hour to turn off unnecessary lighting and domestic electrical appliances....
- 30 March 2009
  08:36
- Bishop Dionisio (Lachovicz) visited Ukrainian Church communities in Spain From March 12 to 24, Bishop Dionisio (Lachovicz), Apostolic Visitator for the faithful of the UGCC in Italy and Spain, visited communities of the faithful in Spain. In Madrid Bishop Dionisio met with priests who work with Ukrainian immigrants. This meeting allowed the discussion of certain problems which they meet in daily pastoral ministry....
- 29 March 2009
  04:30
- Fifth Annual Ukrainian American Youth Association Leadership Seminar in Washington, DC Despite the occasionally rainy weather, Washington D.C.'s famous cherry blossoms were coming into full bloom as the Fifth National Youth Leadership Seminar, organized by the Ukrainian American Youth Association (CYM), took place in the nation's capitol.
- 27 March 2009
  03:36
- The head of the UGСC greeted the participants of the conference "Bioethics in the system of health care and medical education" On March 26-27 at Holy Spirit Seminary (Lviv, Khutorivka St., 35), an international scholarly-practical conference "Bioethics in the system of health care and medical education" is taking place. The purpose of the conference, according to Sister Diohena-Halyna (Tereshkevych), SSMI, associate professor of the Department of Philosophy and...
- 27 March 2009
  01:39
- His Beatitude Lubomyr called the priests of the UGCC in life and ministry to follow the example of Blessed Martyr Emilian Kowcz On March 25, 2009, on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the day of death of Blessed Martyr Fr. Emilian Kowcz, on the site of the former Nazi concentration camp of Majdanek in Poland he was proclaimed the patron of pastors of the UGCC. "By this decree to the honor and glory of the Holy Trinity, as a zealous servant and intercessor before the throne of the...
- 26 March 2009
  11:31
- Fighting abortion through the way of the cross The way of the cross, which is often prayed during Lent, is an occasion to pray for unborn children and reflect on the negative, immoral influence of abortion. The Church today talks much about this great public misfortune and with various methods tries to halt its progress.
- 25 March 2009
  11:15
- “Miracles of Padre Pio” With the blessing of Reverend Bishop Volodymyr (Viytyshyn), Eparch of Ivano-Frankivs’k, for the first time a relic of St. [Padre] Pio has been brought to Ukraine. Presently the relic is at the Cathedral of the Holy Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ. So reports the Ivano-Frankivs’k Eparchy.
- 24 March 2009
  06:11
- "Axios" means "worthy"; may we be: Lenten retreats in Wuerttemberg Lent is the occasion for each of us to get deeper into his own self, to understand himself and other people. Some stimulus is needed for this purpose; a retreat is often such a step and stimulus. At the Parish of Saint Basil the Great, in the center of Stuttgart, the Lenten retreat lasted from 14 to 22 March. All interested persons had the opportunity to use this...
- 24 March 2009
  05:52
- A relic of St. Pio has been brought to Ukraine for the first time With the blessing of Reverend Bishop Volodymyr (Viytyshyn), Eparch of Ivano-Frankivs’k, and the assistance of Fr. Stephan Balahura, judicial vicar of the UGCC Eparchy of Ivano-Frankivs’k, Fr. Vitaliy Tokar, auxiliary judicial vicar, Fr. Yevhen Andrukhiv, and a friend of our Church, Fr. Marko Rupnik, a relic of St. [Padre] Pio was brought for the first...
- 24 March 2009
  05:49
- Thousands of faithful of the UGCC in Lviv took part in a processional way of the cross On the Sunday of the Cross, when the Church gives special honor to the life-giving cross, a processional way of the cross, led by Bishop Hlib Lonchyna, Bishop of the Curia of the Major Archbishop of Kyiv and Halych, was held in Lviv.

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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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