NEWS of the UGCC news

- 25 February 2009
  06:13
- MISEREOR: "To protect God’s creation so that all can live!" The Catholic charitable organization MISEREOR in Lent is beginning to collect offerings under the motto «To protect God’s creation so that all can live!» Thus the charitable organization which was founded by the German bishops in 1958 to fight the spread of hunger and illness through the whole world wants to specify the connection of many social and...
- 25 February 2009
  06:11
- In Lviv the Day of Defenders of the Homeland was celebrated with prayer On February 22, 2009, on the eve of the Day of Defenders of the Homeland, Archbishop Ihor (Voznyak) of Lviv visited the Hetman Petro Sahaydachnyj Military Institute in Lviv, one of the oldest and leading military-educational institutions in the system of military formation of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine....
- 24 February 2009
  01:19
- Extended session of the Board of the Ukrainian Interdenominational Christian Mission Spiritual and Charitable Care in Places of Imprisonment On February 19, 2009, in the State Department an extended session of the Board of the Ukrainian Interdenominational Christian Mission Spiritual and Charitable Care in Places of Imprisonment was held.
- 23 February 2009
  12:35
- Reverend Father Adrian Paul Ckuj rests in peace The official web-site of the UGCC in Italy (www.chiesaucraina.it) reports the sad news that on February 21, 2009, at 18.30, in his 40th year of life after a difficult illness Reverend Father Ckuj, vice-pastor of the Ukrainian Parish of Sts. Sergius and Bacchus in Rome and from 2004 to 2008 chancellor of the Apostolic Visitator for Ukrainian...
- 20 February 2009
  02:41
- Celebration of the Day of Consecrated Persons in Lviv On February 14-15, 2009, monks and nuns of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church celebrated the Day of Consecrated Persons. The celebration began with Vespers with Litia in the Church of the Protection of Holy Mother of God (Lviv). Vespers was led by Reverend Bishop Hlib (Lonchyna), appointed by the Synod of Bishops of the UGCC as responsible for...
- 16 February 2009
  09:14
- Bishop Hlib (Lonchyna) has visited the UGCC community in Ireland On February 7-10, 2009, Bishop Hlib (Lonchyna), curial bishop, Apostolic Visitator for Ukrainian Greek-Catholics in Ireland, made a pastoral visit to the city of Dublin (Ireland). In this city for many years now the community of faithful of the UGCC, which Archimandrite Serge Kelleher has served for many years, has lived and developed. The bishop stayed...
- 16 February 2009
  09:13
- All who believe in Jesus Christ are called to evangelization "Every Christian is called to evangelize (to preach to the world Jesus Christ, and also His Gospel, with the purpose of carrying out the salvation of man – editor), not only by word and preaching, but first of all by one’s own life, so that neighbors who surround us see from our acts that we are indeed children of a loving Father." So said His Beatitude Lubomyr,...
- 16 February 2009
  09:08
- The festival «Lift up your hearts 2009» On May 6, 2009, it is planned to conduct the festival of the Christian city «Lift up your hearts 2009» in Ivano-Frankivs’k. The festival of a Christian city for people who live in it: where they are born, study, work, and relax. Ivano-Frankivs’k is a city in which most inhabitants are Christian, and everybody expresses his/her belonging to the Christian city...
- 16 February 2009
  09:07
- A representatives of the UGCC took part in an international conference of commanders of military chaplains From 1 to 6 February 2009, in South Africa, an international conference of commanders of military chaplains, responsible for the military chaplaincy in their countries, took place. Such conferences have been organized now for the 20th time in a row. This year the conference was extended for the first time to the world scale. The main organizers of the...
- 12 February 2009
  11:54
- ‘Bricks’ towards the construction of the Patriarchal Cathedral are available again As of November 1, 2008, in all eparchies and exarchates in Ukraine the distribution of special "bricks," purchasing which the donor makes a small contribution to the construction of the Patriarchal Cathedral, has been renewed. Every eparchy and exarchate of the UGCC in Ukraine, in accordance with the amount of faithful, has obtained a certain number of...
- 12 February 2009
  11:51
- Council of the Eparchy of Ternopil' and Zboriv on the theme of evangelization On February, 21, 2009, on the premises of the Academic-Theological Corpus of Patriarch Josyf Slipyj Major Seminary in Ternopil, a sobor [council] of the Ternopil' and Zboriv Eparchy on the theme of evangelization, under the motto «To live today according to the Gospel,» will begin.
- 12 February 2009
  01:48
- Bishop Bohdan (Dzyurakh) visited Brovary for the church’s patronal day On February 8, 2009, Reverend Bishop Bohdan (Dzyurakh), auxiliary bishop of the Kyiv Archeparchy, on the occasion of the church’s patronal feast made a pastoral visit to the Parish of Three Saints in the town of Brovary.
- 12 February 2009
  01:46
- Seminar-practicum «Youth for youth» With the blessing of His Excellency Ihor (Voznyak), Archbishop of Lviv, on February 15, 2009, a seminar-practicum «Youth for youth» will take place.
- 09 February 2009
  01:09
- Note of the Vatican Secretary of State regarding the lifting of the excommunication from the bishops of the Society of Saint Pius X In connection with misunderstanding caused by the fact that Pope Benedict XVI lifted the punishment of excommunication from four Lefebvrite bishops, on February 4, 2009, the Secretary of State of the Holy See published a note with proper explanations.
- 09 February 2009
  01:07
- “I am coming, Christ” On February 9 at 19:00 at the Les’ Kurbas National Theatre Center (Kyiv) will take place the presentation “I am coming, Christ.” The presentation was blessed by His Beatitude Lubomyr, Head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church.

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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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