NEWS of the UGCC news

- 09 February 2009
  01:03
- Excerpts from the first audio book of His Beatitude Lubomyr, "The way to one’s self," can be seen on YouTube Excerpts from the first audio book of His Beatitude Lubomyr, Head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, which was released under the name "The way to one’s self," from February 5, 2009, is accessible for viewing in video format on YouTube. Offered are four fragments in which the Head of the UGCC talks about bribery, money and whether it is an...
- 08 February 2009
  01:23
- Bishop Ken Nowakowski, Head of Patriarchal Commission, chairs meeting of formators of North & South America in Brazil On Wednesday, 4 February 2009 the first meeting of the newly established Patriarchal Commission for Priestly Formation in Seminaries of the Ukrainian Catholic Church began with a celebration of the Divine Liturgy (Mass) in St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in Curitiba....
- 05 February 2009
  10:19
- For people with hearing defects a disk with a sign-language recording of the Liturgy was prepared in Lviv In Lviv a DVD-disk was prepared by which the Divine Liturgy became more accessible for persons with hearing defects. On the disk the Liturgy with sign language translation is presented. Also the disk contained a dictionary of theological terms in sign language....
- 05 February 2009
  10:16
- Lisbon Christmas carols On Sunday February 1, a festive concert took place in Aula Magna (University of Lisbon) organized by the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church of the Nativity of the Holy Mother of God. The celebration began with the greeting of Yurij Demidenko, plenipotentiary in affairs of culture from the Embassy of Ukraine. Fr. Yoan Lubiv, OSBM, addressed all those present...
- 05 February 2009
  10:15
- Social and ecological responsibility is a force of the future General Secretary of the UN Ki-moon read an address to the participants of the World Economic Forum in Davos, putting there a fundamental accent on the ecological question. The General Secretary stated that, along with many problems of an economic character, before us appears «another problem which has been forming for years and carries a global...
- 04 February 2009
  11:50
- "In addition to available money, no less important for the building of the church is prayer."– A meeting of the Committee on Construction of the Patriarchal Center took place On January 29, 2009, in Kyiv the regular meeting of the Committee on Construction of the Patriarchal Center of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church was held. Its work was led by His Beatitude Lubomyr, Head of the UGCC. The representatives of the four departments which make up the structure of this committee took part in the meeting: the department for...
- 31 January 2009
  12:00
- An Orthodox priest "stormed" the house of a Greek-Catholic pastor On January 21, 2009, a priest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate together with three dozen faithful swarmed into the yard of a Greek-Catholic priest in the village of Ivanivka, Odesa Region. Opposition was provoked by a funeral service for a dead woman, whose daughter appealed for help to the Greek-Catholic priest....
- 30 January 2009
  11:57
- The Head of the UGCC prayed for those who died in the battle of Kruty January 29 is the anniversary of the battle of Kruty. On this day President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko, deputies of the Ukrainian parliament, representatives of central structures of executive authority, and public and church figures recalled the memory of the heroes killed. The country's head placed flowers at the Memorial of the Heroes of Kruty in...
- 30 January 2009
  11:54
- Universal Hierarch Benedict XVI lifted the excommunication from the bishops of the St. Pius X Society On January 24, 2009, the Vatican reported that, after protracted dialogue between the Holy See and the Society of Saint Pius X, which was represented by its superior-general, Bishop Bernard Fellay, Pope Benedict XVI accepted a repeated request from him and also the three other bishops of the society about lifting the excommunication with which they were...
- 30 January 2009
  11:51
- Concrete help for the Church communities of India and the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church was discussed at the Vatican At the Vatican from January 26 to 30, 2009, the annual Assembly of Organizations for Aid to the Eastern Churches (ROACO) was held. The assembly has members from 50 different charitable organizations. At the center of attention of this year’s meeting was the situation of Church communities in India and the granting of aid to the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic...
- 30 January 2009
  11:49
- Plastuns (scouts) will conduct various events to honor the youths who perished in the battle at Kruty On January 29 as part of the youth initiative «Glory to the heroes!,» the event «Remember Kruty!» starts. To honor the 300 youth, senior plastuns [Ukrainian scouts] will conduct a one-day fast and field games for children devoted to the events of January 1918.
- 30 January 2009
  11:48
- Second all-Ukraine meeting of main military chaplains of the UGCC has finished its work The meeting took place on January 27–28 in the village of Zarvanytsya, Ternopil Region. In it took part the main military chaplains of all the eparchies and exarchates of the UGCC in Ukraine and representatives of the power structures of Ukraine (Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Internal Troops of the MIA of Ukraine,...
- 29 January 2009
  04:42
- "From words about peace to the conviction of peace" The presentation of the book under that name took place on January 24, 2009, in Kyiv, at the Saint Thomas Aquinas Institute of Religious Studies (Yakira St., 13), as part of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. The presented edition is devoted to the 40th anniversary of the celebration of the World Day of Peace. The book was prepared for publication by the...
- 29 January 2009
  04:38
- The first audio project of the Head of the UGCC will become «gold» A collection of audio disks with the utterances of His Beatitude Lubomyr (Husar), Head of the UGCC, was presented in Lviv. Power and riches, the Church and youth, immigration and attitudes toward foreigners, journalists and businessmen, morality in political and public life… Words on these and other themes now can be heard on three compact disks under the...
- 29 January 2009
  09:40
- The festival «Christmas in the heart» was held On January 25, with the blessing of Bishop Vasyl (Semenyuk), Eparch of the Ternopil' and Zboriv Eparchy, the festival «Christmas in the heart» was held. At this festival the best performances (Christmas and New Year’s Eve plays and Christmas and Epiphany carols) from the deaneries of the Ternopil' and Zboriv Eparchy of the UGCC were presented....

PUBLICATIONS

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...

POPULAR