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- 04 July 2022 12:08
- “Vacation with God: The Holy Family”: Summer Camp for Children in Philadelphia During June 27-July 1, 2022 a Summer Camp for Children “Vacation with God: The Holy Family” was held at the Basilian Spirituality Center in Jenkintown, PA. The camp was organized by St. Sophia Religious Association of Ukrainian Catholics, Inc. in cooperation with the Sisters of the Order of Saint Basil the Great. 32 children aged 5-14 from the Greater...
- 04 July 2022 11:26
- In Lviv, Tolstoy Street renamed Cardinal Guzar Street In Lviv and the community, 19 streets were renamed as part of the de-Russification process.
- 03 July 2022 22:31
- From the Head of the UGCC: The occupier looks at us with the dark eye of Mammon, which our Kobzar wrote about back then When a person is judged by what she can give, then such an eye is a dark eye, a greedy eye. Our Kobzar describes such a lustful eye by saying: “And that casts greedy eyes, over all the globe, to find somewhere, a land not yet enslaved, which he could conquer and then bear, with him into the grave.” This was said by the Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic...
- 02 July 2022 16:56
- From the Head of the UGCC: The war showed who we are as Christians and who we are as politicians in Ukraine When war is outside, when the people are going through such tragic circumstances, then it really turns out who is who. During the war, all masks dropped, all traitors were disguised. This was said by the Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church His Beatitude Sviatoslav in the Open Church program on the topic “Being merciful amid evil of war.”...
- 30 June 2022 14:52
- Enthronement rite served for Bishop Brian Baida of the UGCC, Eparch of Toronto and Eastern Canada Bishop Brian Baida, the ruling Bishop of the Diocese of Toronto and Eastern Canada of the UGCC, was enthroned in Toronto on June 27. The enthronement liturgy was held at the Church of the Holy Supreme Apostles Peter and Paul in Scarborough, Ontario, with the participation of bishops, priests and monks of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, as well as the...
- 30 June 2022 13:05
- From the Head of the UGCC on the 126th day of the war: May the Holy Spirit allow us, through self-control, to be good, wise masters of our native land We ask the Holy Spirit to grant us self-control, especially in the conditions of war, when we lack the means for a dignified life begin more and more, because war always brings devastation, impoverishment and hunger with it.
- 29 June 2022 10:54
- From the Head of the UGCC on the 125th day of the war: On the faces of the defenders of Ukraine we contemplate the gentleness of Christ, who became humble until death When you communicate with our servicemen, with our soldiers, girls and boys, when you ask them who they were before the war, many of them had been teachers, scientists, doctors, artists, played sports, worked in various intellectual fields, but when war broke out, they did not consider their position in society an inviolable privilege. His Beatitude...
- 28 June 2022 16:40
- His Beatitude Sviatoslav expressed condolences to the relatives of those killed and wounded in the missile strike on Kremenchuk His Beatitude Sviatoslav, the Father and Head of the UGCC expressed his condolences to the families and friends of the victims and all those injured in the missile strike by the occupiers on the Amstor shopping mall in Kremenchuk, Poltava Oblast, which Russia inflicted on Monday, June 27. The Head of the Church called it a terrorist act....
- 27 June 2022 22:52
- Church prays and saves lives, the Head of the UGCC handed over another reanimobile to combat medics On Monday, June 27, in Kyiv, His Beatitude Sviatoslav, the Father and Head of the UGCC handed over an ambulance to the capital's military hospital to transport the wounded defenders of Ukraine.
- 26 June 2022 17:01
- From the Head of the UGCC on the 122nd day of the war: In times of war, human kindness is more valuable than bread and butter, clothes and warmth Our righteous Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky said that in times of war human kindness is more valuable than bread and butter, than clothes and warmth, because where a person preserves this inner kindness given by God and is able to show it with her actions, everything begins to recover, and heal. The Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church His...
- 26 June 2022 15:59
- From the Head of the UGCC on the 121st day of the war: The ability to be patient in our struggle can be one of the types of victory over evil Long-suffering gives a person the opportunity to move forward through the daily work of an ant, as the righteous Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky taught, because that is how the whole nation goes towards its goal. Endurance in good shows a person's intention, how much she seeks good, how much she wants to accomplish what the Lord calls her to do. His Beatitude...
- 24 June 2022 22:54
- From His Beatitude Sviatoslav at the consecration service of the church in Obukhiv: This church is a ray of hope for the revival of Ukraine after the war Today, when the enemy on our land is destroying everything, damaging, waging a war of “scorched earth” – we are building! It takes a lot of faith to build temples during war. We need to have a look into the future that breaks through the clouds that have gathered over us. This was emphasized by His Beatitude Sviatoslav, the Father and Head of the UGCC during the...
- 23 June 2022 16:38
- From the Head of the UGCC on Day 119: Lord, be our joy, especially when in our humanity, we want to cry While visiting Sumy, Kharkiv and Poltava, -- parts of Ukraine that were under occupation, I saw victims of Russian torture and bombing, some of whom spoke about their suffering. These people carried an incomprehensible joy in their hearts that cannot be explained by human means. The Father and Head of the UGCC, His Beatitude Sviatoslav, made this comment...
- 23 June 2022 16:35
- From the Head of the UGCC on the 118th day of the war: Ukraine, as in the days of Kyivan Rus, shields Europe from the invasion that brings death We are sometimes like leaky bags into which the Lord pours out His grace, and we lose it. But when a person receives the gifts of the Holy Spirit, when she cooperates with divine grace, then she grows and matures. His Beatitude Sviatoslav, the Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church said in his daily address on the 118th day of the war....
- 21 June 2022 22:28
- His Beatitude Sviatoslav met with relatives of captured National Guard soldiers who were guarding the Chernobyl nuclear plant On Tuesday, June 21, in Kyiv, His Beatitude Sviatoslav, the Father and Head of the UGCC, met with relatives of Ukrainian National Guard servicemen who were captured and later abducted by Russian soldiers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on the first day of the full-scale invasion.

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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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