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- 05 December 2008
  11:56
- The construction of the Patriarchal Cathedral is planned to be completed in autumn 2010 On December 1-7, 2008, Reverend Bishop Bohdan (Dzyurakh), head of the Supervisory Council of the Construction of the Patriarchal Cathedral, in Kyiv, is spending time in the USA. The purpose of his visit is to meet with members of the Diaspora Department of the Informational-Financial Support of the Construction of the Patriarchal Center in order to...
- 07 November 2008
  12:37
- Bishop Sofron (Dmyterko) has passed away With deep regret we report that on November 5, 2008, at 5.15 in the morning, in his 92nd year of life, Bishop emeritus of the Ivano-Frankivs’k Eparchy of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church Sofron (Dmyterko) passed on to eternity. His name is closely related to the underground activity and revival of the UGCC. The funeral of Bishop Sofron will take place on...
- 07 November 2008
  12:30
- Ukraine needs a Christian elite “What do we need today in Ukraine, what do we lack? Is there a shortage of research workers, doctors, teachers?" – asked His Beatitude Lubomyr, Major Archbishop of Kyiv and Halych, in his appeal to the participants of the round table which took place on November 1, 2008 in Kyiv. “We lack a Christian elite: people who have not only high professional skills, not...
- 07 November 2008
  12:24
- A memorial tablet for Metropolitan Andrey (Sheptytsky) was unveiled in Lviv (renewed) On October 31 on Metropolitan Andrey Street 2 in Lviv, a memorial tablet in honor of Metropolitan Andrey (Sheptytsky) was unveiled. Reverend Bishop Hlib (Lonchyna), Curial Bishop, blessed the tablet. The initiator of establishing the memorial tablet was the Lviv regional society of political prisoners and repressions. According to the head of the...
- 07 November 2008
  12:11
- A meeting of youth in Argentina On Sunday, October 26, the 19th meeting of youth of the Eparchy of the Holy Protection in Argentina took place. Despite strong rain and a tropical storm, 350 persons arrived at the Parish of Saint Volodymyr in Posadas, Misiones.
- 07 November 2008
  12:02
- News of the Incarnate Word community On Friday October 25, 2008, Bishop Hlib (Lonchyna), head of the Department of Church Commissions and Responsible for Monastic Matters of the Patriarchal Curia of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, visited monastic houses of the Incarnate Word in the Ivano-Frankivs’k Eparchy. The visit started with a visit to the house of the sisters in Burshtyn......
- 07 November 2008
  12:01
- International conference: Collegiality, Synodality and Community The theme of collegiality occupies an important place in modern Christian theology. Recently it became a point at the issue of the Mixed International Commission on Dialogue between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches. Considering this from October 23 to 27, theologians of the Orthodox and the Catholic Churches met in one of the best known centers in world...
- 28 October 2008
  10:08
- "Riches are not a misfortune" With that title, an interview with His Beatitude Lubomyr, Head of the UGCC, was published in the latest issue of the business weekly "Contracts" (№ 42, October 20, 2008). The main thought of the dialogue of the Head of the UGCC with Yanina Kud', a journalist of "Contracts," are the words of His Beatitude Lubomyr that riches and poverty are not virtue or...
- 28 October 2008
  10:05
- "Glory to the heroes" A musical and poetic evening with that name took place today at Holy Spirit Seminary in Lviv.
- 28 October 2008
  10:03
- The status of carrying out the resolutions of the 4th Session of the Patriarchal Council is analyzed at a conference On October 23 - 26, 2008, in the city of Novoyavorivs’k (Lviv Region), at the Metropolitan Andrey and Archimandrite Klymentiy, the Sheptytsky Brothers, Youth Retreat and Spiritual Center, as part of the program of the Year of Christian Vocation the conference «Youth in the Church of the third millennium: A year after the Council,» is being conducted. The...
- 23 October 2008
  01:51
- Ukrainian Churches tell Ambassador of India to Ukraine of their disturbance regarding cruel oppression of Christians in this country On October 21, 2008, addresses to Ambassador of India to Ukraine Mr. Debabrata Saha and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine V. Ohryzko expressed the disturbance of the heads of the Christian Churches of Ukraine at the situation of cruel oppression of Christians in India, which currently has already spread to a few Indian states. Corresponding letters...
- 23 October 2008
  01:47
- The primary purpose for visiting the eparchies is the distribution of information about the NPF "Pokrova” (Protection) Such was the emphasis of Fr. Vasyl’ Kopychyn, head of the supervisory council of Non-government Pension Fund (NPF) "Pokrova" (Protection), commenting for the Information Department of the UGCC about the series of his visits which are taking place these days in the UGCC’s eparchies of western Ukraine. Mr. Volodymyr Ul'yanov, head of the supervisory...
- 20 October 2008
  11:36
- A Social Week will be conducted in Kyiv On November 1 - 5 in Kyiv, for the first time since Ukrainian independence a Social Week will be conducted. The form of such an event foresees an annual repeat with a new theme and new participants. A further purpose of the Social Week is to become a traditional public forum for the discussion of society’s problems and a search for their resolution, considering...
- 12 October 2008
  11:27
- Zarvanytsya shines on souls For the first time in its history, miraculous Zarvanytsya has an illustrated 24-page guide-book. Every pilgrim will find in it everything necessary, and also that which a pilgrimage to this holy place gives in particular, spiritual benefit...
- 12 October 2008
  11:11
- First university chapel to appear in Lviv The first university chapel will appear in Lviv soon. Its construction was begun by the Ukrainian Catholic University on the site of the future university campus on Stryjs’ka Street. This will be a small wooden church according to the design of Lviv architect Roman Sulyk, which is planned to be done by the end of 2008....

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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

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