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- 08 March 2009
  12:24
- Conference Communiqué: The Mission of the Eastern Catholic Churches in the Life of the Universal Church and for the Modern World March 4-6, 2009 - The International Theological Institute (Internationales Theologisches Institut) in Gaming, Austria, in cooperation with the Institut für Theologie und Geschichte des Christlichen Ostens, Katholisch-Theologische Fakultät der Universität Wien and the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv), hosted an international symposium...
- 05 March 2009
  11:30
- Parliamentary committees will consider a bill granting religious organizations the right to found educational institutions For Wednesday, March 4, 2009, a consideration of the bill «About making alterations to some laws of Ukraine in relation to the foundation by religious organizations of educational institutions» (register № 2729) was planned at the Committee on Questions of Culture and Spirituality and the Committee on Questions of Research and Education. Thus, the last...
- 05 March 2009
  11:28
- A Council in the Eparchy of Buchach will be conducted under the theme «Evangelization in the conditions of our days» On March 30-31, 2009, a Council [Sobor] of the Eparchy of Buchach on the theme of evangelization will take place. It will be conducted in the town of Chortkiv on the premises of the eparchial administration. For the preparation of the Council, Apostolic Administrator Fr. Dmytro Hryhorak created a preparatory committee, which is headed by Mitred Fr. Ivan...
- 04 March 2009
  09:46
- Clergy of Brussels of the UGCC welcomed in the Ukrainian church the new Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ukraine Recently the clergy of Brussels of the UGCC welcomed in the Ukrainian Church of Saint and Equal to the Apostles Great Prince Volodymyr the new Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ukraine in the Kingdom of Belgium, Mr. Evhen Bersheda...
- 03 March 2009
  09:03
- A center for pilgrims of the Ivano-Frankivs’k Eparchy of the UGCC was created Considering the challenges of our days and the necessities of pilgrims of the Ivano-Frankivs’k Eparchy of the UGCC, a center for pilgrims was created. The task of the center is to co-ordinate, organize and look after the activity of pilgrims from the Ivano-Frankivs’k Eparchy of the UGCC. The head of this center was appointed by the Bishop of...
- 03 March 2009
  09:02
- A meeting of the Permanent Synod of Bishops of the UGCC took place in Donets’k From February 27 to March 2, 2009, a meeting of the Permanent Synod of Bishops of the UGCC took place in Donets’k. The Permanent Synod is a group of bishops which works on behalf of the Patriarchal Synod and is the deliberative structure for the Head of the Church. "As we already are convinced, when the members of the Permanent Synod are better informed, so we can...
- 03 March 2009
  09:00
- A meeting of those responsible for Marian Sodalities On February 25, at the conference hall of the administration of the Ternopil' and Zboriv Eparchy a coordinating meeting of priests responsible for Marian Sodalities took place. Participants discussed questions relating to the organization of measures of the communities in the current year, in particular a pilgrimage to Zarvanytsya....
- 03 March 2009
  08:59
- "I am glad that icon-writing is alive": His Beatitude Lubomyr "I am very glad that icon-writing [painting] is alive; that it is not only an age-old art but, like human tradition, history is passed from generation to generation. The transferring of the art of icon-writing, together with faith which gives inspiration to icon-writers, is a treasure which I hope we also, through modern artists, will transmit to our...
- 03 March 2009
  08:56
- A Council of the Lviv Archeparchy of the UGCC on the theme of evangelization will be held On March 14, 2009, a Sobor [Council] of the Lviv Archeparchy of the UGCC on evangelization will take place. Its theme: «Features of preaching the Gospel in the modern world: Recognition of the signs of the times.» The ruling Archbishop of Lviv, Reverend Ihor (Voznyak), for the preparation of the Council formed a working commission, to head which he...
- 02 March 2009
  09:04
- Presentation of two books of Archbishop Myroslav (Marusyn) in Lviv On February 23, 2009, at the Lviv Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the presentation of two new books of the emeritus Secretary of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches of the Vatican, Archbishop Myroslav (Marusyn), took place.
- 27 February 2009
  07:34
- World Day of Social Justice On the occasion of the World Day of Social Justice, which was celebrated on February 20, the Secretary-General of the UN, Mister Ki-moon, called the world publicity to bring actively to life a strategy aimed at providing social justice for all.
- 27 February 2009
  07:29
- About the Forty-third session of the Synod of Bishops of the Kyiv and Halych Major Archbishopric of the UGCC On February 18-19, 2009, in Lviv-Bryukhovychi took place the Forty-third session of the Synod of Bishops of the Kyiv and Halych Major Archbishopric of the UGCC. At the session meetings were present all 18 members of the Metropolitan Synod. The members of Synod accepted for consideration the implementation of decisions of the Forty-second session of...
- 27 February 2009
  07:17
- His Beatitude Lubomyr is 76 Today, February 26, 2009, the Head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, His Beatitude Lubomyr, turned 76. On the occasion of his birthday from the different corners of Ukraine and the world, from Ukrainians and representatives of other nations, clergy and laity, politicians and public figures, youth and seniors, greetings flew in for the Head and...
- 25 February 2009
  09:10
- Video excerpts from the first audio book of His Beatitude Lubomyr ‘Way to one’s self’ at YouTube watched by more than 1700 people For 1727 times users of the world-wide Internet resource YouTube watched excerpts (in video format) of the first audio book of His Beatitude Lubomyr, Head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, which was released under the title "The way to one’s self." Four excerpts in which the Head of the UGCC talks about bribery, money and whether it is an...
- 25 February 2009
  09:01
- A food bank reported before its depositors The food bank of the Church of Saint Nicholas on Askol'd’s Grave of the UGCC has reported on its activity. The bank was created by the parish ministry service of help for the needy. The released report contains indices for the first three months of activity. In total over three months the faithful of this church gave to the church’s social service various...

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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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