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- 13 April 2022 10:04
- Chernihiv region after the occupation: what Ukrainians said about the liberators Priests of the UGCC visited villages of Chernihiv region that were liberated from the occupiers, to distribute humanitarian aid, support local residents, and listen to their stories about life during the occupation.
- 08 March 2022 15:18
- International theologians in support of Ukraine Theologians from different countries and continents strongly condemned Russia's military aggression against Ukraine.
- 02 March 2022 23:43
- Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with the Ukrainian Community of Washington Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a private meeting with Ukrainian Ambassador Oksana Markarova, Metropolitan Borys Gudziak, Ukrainian Catholic Archbishop of Philadelphia, Archbishop Daniel Zelinsky from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of America, and a dozen members of the Washington DC Ukrainian community in the Ukrainian Catholic National...
- 22 May 2020 17:32
- Renovabis and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church: the history of a partnership for positive changes From 13 to 19 May, the Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), His Beatitude Sviatoslav, was to visit Germany at the invitation of the German charitable organization Renovabis.
- 14 March 2020 11:50
- Today the Lord speaks to us through what is happening, Bishop Borys Gudziak about the coronavirus pandemic. May this time of Lent, which is so strongly marked by this virus, be the period when we affirm ourselves in our faith, in our certainty that God is with us, Bishop Gudziak, Metropolitan of Philadelphia, said this in a video message to the faithful.
- 25 September 2019 15:05
- A training for future military chaplains conducted in Zarvanytsia On September 20 seminarians of the UGCC, who are involved in services among military men participated in a training called “God’s Platoon Soldiers” which took place in Maria’s spiritual center “Zarvanytsia”. It was mainly students of Kyiv, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Drohobych and Ternopil spiritual seminaries....
- 24 August 2019 16:04
- May the bell of liberty continue to ring, from country to country, from heart to heart, — Borys Gudziak Created in God’s image and likeness we, human beings, are meant to be free. Free as persons and communities, free as peoples and nations.
- 11 July 2019 12:47
- "The war in Ukraine is a colonial war, aimed at restoring a system like the Soviet Union," Head of the UGCC The Church helps to build social justice by preaching and applying four principles of its social doctrine: dignity of the human person, solidarity, subsidiarity and common good. For free people, a state is a common good. For Ukrainians, a state is the only guarantee of being free on their land. Previously, we lived in our land as citizens of the second class....
- 26 September 2018 22:12
- The UGCC appointed a new patriarchal econom According to the decision of the Permanent Synod of the Bishops of the UGCC on September 12, 2018, the Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, His Beatitude Sviatoslav, appointed Fr. Lyubomуr Yavorsky as the new patriarchal econom of the Church. Before Fr. Lubomуr was the Deputy Chief of the Department of Military Chaplaincy....
- 27 June 2018 14:38
- Declaration of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church regarding the violence against Rom (Gypsy) Camps in various regions of Ukraine The news of ever increasing violence in certain parts of Ukraine has caused me great concern and indignation. Recently a great tragedy occurred, which resulted in the death of one person and the injury of numerous others, including women and children.
- 21 December 2017 21:07
- Vice Rector of UCU Oleh Turii received state award of Vatican Vice Rector for External Affairs of UCU, Director of Church History Institute, Oleh Turii, Ph.D, was awarded the Cross for the Church and Pontiff. This is the highest award, which lay person can receive in the Catholic Church.
- 05 October 2017 11:42
- Tragedy confronts our thoughts as to the value of life The recent tragic loss of life and well-being in Las Vegas and from the terrorism act in Edmonton, Canada, preceded by the loss of life and major hardships experienced as a result of hurricanes in the Caribbean Islands, Puerto Rico, Florida and Texas have caused all of us to reflect on the preciousness of life. ...
- 26 September 2017 16:24
- St. Anne Ukrainian Catholic Church in Austintown, OH (USA) Held Its Annual Ukrainian Festival On September 24, 2017, St. Anne Ukrainian Catholic Church in Austintown, OH, a parish of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of St. Josaphat in Parma, held its annual Ukrainian Festival.
- 18 September 2017 12:14
- The Third ESL Summer School in Zazdrist On July 16-August 5, 2017, the Josyf Slipyj Museum in the Patriarch’s native village of Zazdrist in the Ternopil region was filled with life. 29 young people from the Dnipro, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Ternopil, Kyiv and Kharkiv regions spent their free time organizing interesting games, parties, picnics, learning to bake, and sightseeing. But the main...
- 31 August 2017 11:48
- Statement of Metropolitan-Archbishop Stefan Soroka on the Suffering and Hardships as a Result of Hurricane Harvey and its Aftermath Metropolitan Stefan Soroka, together with Bishop John Bura and Bishop Andriy Rabiy, clergy, religious and faithful, pray for those suffering as a result of the damage and flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey, especially in Texas and Louisiana.

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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

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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