NEWS of the UGCC news

- 23 March 2009
  04:12
- UGCC seminary rectors are working out the "Program of evangelization and missionary education in the UGCC" On May 12-14, 2009, in Lviv on the premises of the international charitable fund Caritas Ukraine (Ozarkevycha St., 4), the European meeting of rectors of the seminaries of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church will be held. The task of the meeting, according to the decision of the Synod of Bishops of the UGCC, will be to work on a document called "Program of...
- 23 March 2009
  04:10
- A meeting of the Pan-American Committee for the Development of the Patriarchal Center was held On March 16, 2009, a meeting of the Pan-American Committee for the Development of the Patriarchal Center was held in Stamford (state of Connecticut, USA). The participants of the meeting worked out a plan of action for 2009. The important question of the agenda was a discussion of variants in special ways to note generous donors. The secretariat of the...
- 23 March 2009
  04:08
- Government structures and Ukrainian TV channels have agreed to protect society’s morals and not allow the heating up of inter-confessional conflicts On March 19, 2009, a charter about partnership regarding the right to and freedom of information and the defense of public morals was promulgated. It was signed by Vice-Premier Minister of Ukraine I. Vasyunyk and the heads of the National Council on Matters of Television and Radio Broadcast...
- 20 March 2009
  06:39
- Bishop Vasyl (Medvit) has been appointed auxiliary bishop of the Donets’k-Kharkiv Exarchate On March 17, 2009, at 13.00 the Vatican announced that His Holiness Benedict XVI, the Pope of Rome, blessed the decision of the Synod of Bishops of the UGCC to designate Bishop Vasyl (Medvit) as auxiliary bishop of the Donets’k-Kharkiv Exarchate. Bishop Vasyl was ordained a bishop on July 12, 1994, in Lviv. In 1994-1997 he was auxiliary bishop of the Lviv...
- 20 March 2009
  06:28
- Star of Canadian and American television, now a priest, will perform at UCU On March 18 and 19 at the Ukrainian Catholic University, an actor and singer known in the USA and Canada, now a priest, Fr. Edward Danylo Evanko, will present two one-man plays, «Damien» (on March 18 at 15:00, Khutorivka St., Philosophy and Theology Faculty Building) and «Be Well and Prosper, My Beloved Ukraine» (on March 19 at 16:00, Sventsitskoho St., 17)....
- 20 March 2009
  05:35
- Youth Evangelization Convention in the Eparchy of Stamford In response to His Beatitude Patriarch Lubomyr Cardinal Husar and the Synod of the Ukrainian Catholic Bishops decree that all the eparchies shall hold a special Convention on the issue of Evangelization in the Modern World. The Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Stamford held on March 14-15, 2009, a Youth Evangelization Convention entitled “From East...
- 17 March 2009
  11:29
- The Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church and the Ministry of Health Care have signed an agreement about cooperation On March 15, 2009, in Kyiv an agreement about cooperation between the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church and the Ministry of Health Care of Ukraine was signed. From the UGCC the document was signed by His Beatitude Lubomyr, Head of the UGCC, and from the MHC of Ukraine Minister of Health Care Vasyl Knyazevych. The parties concluded this agreement "aiming to...
- 17 March 2009
  12:54
- His Beatitude Lubomyr answered the questions of readers of “Correspondent” "Such a decision [transferring the see of the Head of the UGCC from Lviv to Kyiv – auth.] would look illogical if all Greek-Catholics were only in western Ukraine. I was in Donets’k and saw that even there there are Greek-Catholics, in Sumy, in Crimea. Greek-Catholics were cast out from that part of Ukraine, but they returned." So said His Beatitude Lubomyr,...
- 17 March 2009
  12:51
- "God forbid that we rejoice at someone else’s misfortune”: His Beatitude Lubomyr answered a question from the Donets’k web-resource Ostrov "God forbid that we rejoice at someone else’s misfortune. And if we make some advancement, God forbid that it was at the cost of somebody's harm. Perhaps someone is tortured by this separation and wants to join the Greek-Catholic Church, but it seems to me that this is not a very good reason. If someone wants to enter the Greek-Catholic Church, to become a...
- 17 March 2009
  12:46
- Bishop Hlib (Lonchyna) conducted a retreat for the priests, seminarians and monks of the International Theological Institute in Austria From March 8 to 11, 2009, at the invitation of the rector of the International Theological Institute in Austria, Bishop Hlib (Lonchyna) conducted retreats for the priests, seminarians and monks who study and work at this institute. In the retreat took part clergy of Greek-Catholic and Roman Catholic Churches from Austria, the USA, Slovakia, Russia and...
- 17 March 2009
  12:44
- The beatification process for Fr. Yeremiya Lomnytskyj, OSBM, has started On April 5, 2009, after a pontifical Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of the Holy Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ the first session of the beatification process of Servant of God Fr. Yeremiya Lomnytskyj, OSBM, will take place.
- 16 March 2009
  12:20
- The victims of the Holodomor were prayed for in the main cathedral of Vienna On March 7 in the main cathedral of Vienna, Saint Stephen’s (Stephansdom), a Liturgy honoring the victims of the Holodomor [forced famine] of 1932-33 in Ukraine took place.
- 16 March 2009
  12:17
- Memorable anniversaries for the Greek-Catholics of Transcarpathia Twenty years ago this spring the Greek-Catholic eparchy of Mukachevo came out from the underground. Sixty years ago, on February 16, 1949, workers of the NCIA (National Committee of Internal Affairs) violently took away the Greek-Catholic Cathedral of the Exaltation of the Cross and episcopal residence in the town of Uzhhorod, forbidding the activity...
- 16 March 2009
  12:16
- The book of Archbishop Ihor (Voznyak) "The word of the Lord alive and active" has been published The human being, who carries spiritual life through the prism of holy scripture, tries to find the road which leads to unity with God. On this way he/she aims to grasp the meaning of life and vocation.
- 14 March 2009
  03:49
- Ukrainian Catholic Bishops of Canada and the United States of America conclude successful meeting Eight bishops representing the Ukrainian Catholic hierarchy of North America gathered for two days of meetings in Clearwater, Florida 10-11 February. Most Rev. Stefan Soroka, Archbishop of Philadelphia and Metropolitan for Ukrainian Catholics in the USA welcomed the participants of the two-day meeting, “It is good to be together for the next few days. ...

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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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