NEWS of the UGCC news

- 16 December 2017 17:32
- “War will end when we stop pretend as if it doesn’t exist,” Head of UGCC A war cannot be won by a military leader, the President, or even by a military unit. A war can be won only by the whole nation. When all of us understand that our country is in a state of war, when we stop shifting responsibility onto someone else and stop avoiding this terrible reality by living as if it does not exist, only then we will win. ...
- 14 December 2017 21:43
- During the opening of Christmas Tree in Lviv members of Plast will pass Peace Light from Bethlehem to the city The Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony in Lviv takes place on Friday, December 17th. “Everyone can take part in the event. This year the Transfer of Light is going to be accompanied by choir Dudaryk. The family of the city mayor will receive the Light on the stage and then the Light will be spread among citizens”, - said Matvii Dukh, Head of Lviv’s Plast....
- 13 December 2017 08:26
- UGCC established a new feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Regarding the cult spread among believers of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church about Our Lady of Perpetual Help, the Synod of Bishops of UGCC held in Lviv (Briukhovychi), September 3-12, 2017 established a feast of Mother of Perpetual Help and concluded its celebration on the 1st Sunday of July.
- 12 December 2017 11:58
- “We can discover our dignity and become our true selves by responding to a God’s calling, not a human’s one” Perhaps all of us in our spiritual lives feel sometimes bounded by own weaknesses and sins. Furthermore, we want to be better than we truly are. We are fighting against the evil, however at a certain point we feel that it gets over us. We cannot do more than we are capable of. Then we are tempted to think as if in the moment of fragility and evil slavery – God doesn’t...
- 11 December 2017 13:16
- “Pessimists say that everything was bad, optimists – that good but the truth is in the middle,” the Head of UGCC summing up the year of 2017 I would be careful while evaluating events which took place in our country. Apparently, pessimists will say that everything was bad, optimists – good. Authorities will state that they worked brilliantly and the opposition - that absolutely terribly. But the truth is somewhere in the middle. It may be too early to make final conclusions. We will, probably,...
- 10 December 2017 14:15
- Head of Association of Ukrainian Women in Great Britain received a letter of commendation from the military On Volunteer’s Day at the Military Medical Clinical Center of the Western region the Head of the hospital Colonel Ivan Haida handed a letter of commendation to the Head of Association of Ukrainian Women (AUW) in Great Britan Mrs. Maria Finiw.
- 05 December 2017 19:26
- Development of pastoral program for people with post abortion syndrome started in UGCC On November 28, 2017 in Patriarchal House in Lviv there was a meeting of working group, which develops pastoral program of UGCC to help people with post abortion syndrome. There were participants from different Eparchies.
- 04 December 2017 22:06
- The third all-church meeting of “A Vibrant Parish” program’s coordinators was finished Following the next two days eparchial coordinators of the program “A Vibrant parish – a place to encounter the Living Christ” were presented the direction of the development (strategy) of UGCC till 2020, which was delivered by Fr. Petro Rak, head of Department of UGCC Commissions. The main referral was given for a methodology of cooperation between...
- 02 December 2017 20:02
- Catholics bishops of Ukraine call for a fervent prayer for peace in Ukraine From December 7 till December 8, 2017 clergy, senior priests of communities of the consecrated life and leaders of prayer groups are going to conduct a Day of a Fervent Prayer for peace in Ukraine, which was delegated by Head and Father of UGCC His Beatitude Sviatoslav, Mechyslav Mokshytskyi, Metropolitan of Lviv Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine and Milan...
- 30 November 2017 12:42
- A joint retreat for UGCC and RCC Bishops takes place in Briukhovychi From 27 till 30 of November, at the retreat center of Lviv Archeparchy of the UGCC in Briukhovychi, a joint retreat for Greek and Roman Catholic Bishops takes place. Spiritual lectures are read by Fr. Germano Marani, SJ, professor of the Eastern Papal University.
- 29 November 2017 20:39
- Greek-Catholics of Vyshnevo held a charitable auction for forced migrants November 26, 2017 parishioners of Saint Anna UGCC community of Vyshneve village, Kyiv region, with the support of “Caritas-Kyiv” held a charitable auction for the families of forced migrants from the cities and suburbs.
- 29 November 2017 20:07
- Ukrainians in The United Arab Emirates invited members of ATO for rehabilitation Invited and supported by The Association for Cultural Diplomacy in The United Arab Emirates a group of military from Ukraine (students and officers of Hetman Petro Sahaidachnyi National Army Academy), who are members of ATO, stays at present in The United Arab Emirates.
- 28 November 2017 15:00
- The Head of the UGCC: “We are often not neighbors even if we live close and go to the same church” Today we have a real danger in our society to become completely strange for one another. So how often and why do we estrange from our neighbor? How can someone filled with anger or hatred care about his people?
- 25 November 2017 18:05
- The Head of the UGCC received the Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Ukraine On November 23, took place the working meeting of the Head and Father of the UGCC His Beatitude Sviatoslav and the head of the delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Ukraine Mr. Alain Aeschlimann at the request of the latter.
- 23 November 2017 22:51
- Training course for military chaplains was launched in Lviv National Army Academy November 20, 2017 at Petro Sahaidachnyi National Army Academy in Lviv was launched a training course for military chaplains, elaborated by general staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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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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