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- 10 March 2010
  08:41
- Greek Catholic community of the Russian city Omsk honored the memory of the “Kobzar” On March 9, 2010, in the Russian city of Omsk, the Greek Catholic community of the Veil of the Holy Mother of God, together with the Siberian center of Ukrainian culture Siryj Klyn honored the memory of Taras Shevchenko. A flower-laying ceremony took place at the stone where a monument to the poet is to be erected. Afterward, the parochial priest Fr. Theodore...
- 10 March 2010
  08:32
- Head of the UGCC met with the faithful of Odesa Staying in Odesa, where a meeting of the Synod of Bishops of the UGCC is taking place, His Beatitude Lubomyr met with the Greek Catholics of Odesa. The meeting took place in the Church of St. Andrew the First-called Apostle.
- 10 March 2010
  01:46
- Cardinal from Washington visits Ukraine Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington, is on a pastoral visit in Ukraine from March 6 to 10, 2010. Accompanying him are Father James McCann, head of the Collection for the Church in Central and Eastern Europe of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Patrick Mark, executive director of the collection. The...
- 09 March 2010
  11:16
- Bishop Dionisiy (Liakhovych) takes part in the opening of the exhibition of the Ukrainian icon in Ancona On March 2, 2010, in the Italian town Ancona in the exhibition room of Mole Vanvitelliana took place the opening of the exhibition Golden Age of the Ukrainian Icon of the XVI-XVIII Centuries, will last until May 9, 2010. At the exhibition were presented 65 pieces of art – 40 icons, liturgical items, and church vestments – from the funds of the Kyiv Cave Preserve...
- 09 March 2010
  11:14
- Meeting of the Permanent Synod of UGCC will be held in Odesa On March 6-9, 2010, in Odesa, the Permanent Synod of the UGCC will meet. According to Bishop Bohdan (Dzyurakh), Secretary of the Synod, the main tasks of the synod are to review the implementation of decisions of the Synod of Bishops of UGCC which took place in 2009, to prepare for the next Synod of 2010, and to consider important questions of church life....
- 07 March 2010
  07:41
- Students of Kyiv were familiarized with the features of consecrated life On March 3, 2010, the students of the Kyiv University of Banking of the National Bank of Ukraine met with nuns. The sisters Yanuaria Isyk, OSBM, and Anastasia Balinska, SSMI, told the students about the history of monastic orders. In addition, every sister shared the story of her personal vocation. According to them, the sense of vocation is to serve to the...
- 07 March 2010
  07:39
- By summer the Patriarchal Pilgrimage Center will share its routes From the 44 pilgrimage places of the UGCC that have been visited by the monitoring group of the Patriarchal Pilgrimage Center, around 10 percent of the pilgrimage objects are ready for pilgrims, reports Mr. Dmytro Myronenko, the head of monitoring group of the Patriarchal Pilgrimage Center of the UGCC. Throughout February the group worked in the western...
- 03 March 2010
  11:32
- Ukrainians are grateful to the faithful of the Philadelphian Archeparchy of UGCC for the victory over the flu During the second wave of the flu epidemic the co-workers of Caritas Ukraine worked actively in order to prevent the spread of the disease. The help of the faithful of the Philadelphian Archeparchy of the UGCC allowed for the purchase of $40,000 worth in medications for the most susceptible groups of the population – children, elderly, AID’s patients....
- 03 March 2010
  11:30
- The UGCC for the first time honored Remembrance Day of Aborted Children On February 27 the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church honored the Remembrance Day of Aborted Children. This event was conducted as part of the Program of Counteracting Abortions in Ukraine, ratified at the forty-sixth session of the Synod of Bishops of Kyiv-Halych Major Archbishopric of the UGCC, which was conducted on September 13-14, 2009. “Our Church...
- 02 March 2010
  02:27
- In Truskavets over 15 thousand faithful prayed before Hlyniany’s miraculous icon On February 24, to the town of Truskavets, with the support of the charitable fund Truskavchany, the miraculous icon of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ arrived from Hlyniany. Thousands of faithful from nearby cities and villages came to Truskavets in order to touch the sacred icon and to ask for the Lord’s generous graces. As reported Fr. Vasyl Nester, the...

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