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- 02 January 2009
  06:11
- Two new commissions have been created at the UGCC: the first for providing personnel, the second on the vocation and life of priests According to the decrees of His Beatitude Lubomyr, two new commissions have been created at the UGCC: the Commission for Personnel of the Kyiv and Halych Major Archbishopric and the Commission on Priestly Vocations, Life and Ministry of the Kyiv and Halych Major Archbishopric. The eighth issue of the "Herald of the Kyiv and Halych Major Archbishopric" for...
- 02 January 2009
  06:09
- His Beatitude Lubomyr blessed the participants of the 12th Main Meeting of the Secular Institute of Catechists taking place in Brazil From December 26 to 31, 2008, in the city of Prudentopolis (Brazil), the 12th Main Meeting of the Secular Institute of Catechists of the Heart of Jesus took place. As the organizers noted, the purpose of the meeting is the desire to consider the life, charism, spirituality and formation of the institute. The important task of the participants is to outline...
- 31 December 2008
  08:59
- «Christmas candle» – Let’s light a fire of hope At the beginning of the pre-Christmas fast, the international charitable foundation Caritas Ukraine begins an annual all-Ukrainian charitable campaign «Christmas candle.» Money collected from this campaign will go to help socially vulnerable children. With the blessing of His Beatitude Lubomyr the action includes all eparchies and exarchates of...
- 29 December 2008
  02:57
- On the Sunday before Christmas the UGCC for the third time will celebrate the Day of the Migrant On January 4, 2009, the UGCC for the third time will celebrate the Day of the Migrant. It is difficult to overestimate the value of the diaspora for preserving and developing the UGCC in the 20th century. At the beginning of the last century the Church actively responded to the necessities of the Ukrainian migration of that time. At the end of the 20th century...
- 29 December 2008
  02:56
- Christian responsibility for the environment Before Christmas in a speech to the Roman Curia on December 23, 2008, His Holiness Benedict XVI in a special way gave attention to the question of Christian responsibility for the environment, the basis of which is our faith in God the Creator. The Pope noted in particular that the Earth is not simply property which can be used according to our interests and...
- 29 December 2008
  02:52
- Bishop Hlib (Lonchyna) about the Byzantine Spiritual Center in Salzburg "The Byzantine Spiritual Center in Salzburg enables other Christians to become more deeply acquainted with our spirituality, ceremonies, and customs. Its task is to give the Churches of the West, and especially the people of Salzburg, the possibility to participate actively and share in the riches of Byzantine spirituality. The activity of the center...
- 25 December 2008
  10:26
- Zarvanytsya Christmas invitation At Christmas time the Marian spiritual center in Zarvanytsya, Ternopil' Region, attracts a great quantity of pilgrims. In fact, in winter the miraculous place acquires a special atmosphere.
- 25 December 2008
  10:20
- Book ‘Children of immigrants about themselves” presented in Lviv The presentation of the book “Children of immigrants about themselves,” which is part of a general project of non-government foundations, civic organizations, the Church and the state, on the study of the problem of Ukraine immigration and work migration, took place in Lviv. More than 50 works of children of migrant workers from the western regions of...
- 24 December 2008
  09:54
- We publish the decisions of the Forty-second Session of the Metropolitan Synod On December 17-18, 2008, in Lviv-Bryukhovychi took place the Forty-second Session of the Synod of Bishops of the Kyiv and Halych Major Archbishopric of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church. At the session meetings, 17 members of the Metropolitan Synod were present. Today we publish the decisions of this session of the Synod....
- 23 December 2008
  11:39
- Bethlehem Light of Peace is in Lviv On December 18 at the Rava-Rus’ka border crossing, Plast members [scouts] of the Lviv Region for the tenth time now received from Polish Harcers [scouts] the Bethlehem Light of Peace. Now the symbol of faith and hope lit in Bethlehem, the city of the birth of Jesus Christ, will shine in every Ukrainian home. The Light has now passed from Bethlehem from hand to...
- 19 December 2008
  03:33
- First European Orthodox-Catholic Forum on family On December 11 - 14 in the city of Trent (Italy) the First European Orthodox-Catholic Forum, on the theme "The Family: A Good for Humanity," was held. In the forum took part representatives of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches of Europe. In total there were 30 participants....
- 18 December 2008
  04:32
- Searching for unity is an important task of the Church On December 9-13, His Beatitude Lubomyr, Major Archbishop of Kyiv and Halych, was in Rome, where he took part in a plenary session of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. Such meetings take place once every two or three years. The Head of the UGCC is a member of three Vatican institutions: the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian...
- 18 December 2008
  04:29
- UGCC canonists unite into a society In autumn the Society of Ukrainian Canonists [specialists in canon law] was created at the UGCC. The confirmation of the statutes of the society and the granting of its status as a legal person took place on the basis of the decree of His Beatitude Lubomyr of November 29, 2008. Fr. Roman Dutchak, J.C.L., a member of the board of the society, informed the...
- 15 December 2008
  08:37
- Pre-Christmas retreat for staff of UGCC commissions On the Feast of Saint Andrew the First-called Apostle, December 13, in the retreat center of the Lviv Archeparchy in Briukhovychi, a one-day pre-Christmas retreat took place. At the request of the commissions of the UGCC, the retreat was by conducted by Bishop Hlib (Lonchyna), head of the Department of Commissions of the UGCC....
- 15 December 2008
  08:36
- Faithful of the UGCC of Chisinau honored the liquidators of the Chernobyl' catastrophe On December 14, in accordance with the Decree of the President of Ukraine of November 10, 2006. “On a day of celebration in honor of the participants in the liquidation of the consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl AES [Atomic Energy Station],” a day of celebration in honor of the participants of the liquidation of the consequences of the accident at...

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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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