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- 05 June 2015 14:31
- Don Los: The family as a living cell of the Church Prague, 5 June 2015 – “The Church proclaims that marriage is a sacrament, but we must explain what this means: first of all, that it embodies grace. And grace signifies not just God’s help so that the husband and wife remain in love and faithfulness, with courage and patience, without selfishness, bearing each other’s burdens; not just God’s help so that each...
- 22 May 2015 17:47
- Caritas Volyn assists thousands of the needful through a cooperation with foreign benefactors For years of work Caritas Volyn proved itself as an efficient charitable organization that has trust and support not only from local communities, but also benefactors from abroad. Notably due to its good reputation at the end of April international guests came here with humanitarian missions.
- 21 May 2015 17:40
- Hoshiv monastery take in 30 ATO fighters for rehabilitation The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church plans to provide spiritual rehabilitation for the ATO participants at Hoshiv monastery in Ivano-Frankivsk region. Chaplain of Ivano-Frankivsk hospice Fr. Yaroslav Rokhmaniv was reported as saying this by Day newspaper.
- 16 May 2015 21:40
- “Private pension fund “Pokrova” provides for an old age suspended funds, without inflation”, - father Oleksa Petriv On 12th of May, in Kyiv, was held a press-conference called “A pension reform. An establishment of a collecting system: perspectives and results”. Among the leading experts reporting on this problem, was father Oleksa Petriv, the Head of the Department of Foreign Relations of UGCC in Ukraine, the secretary of the Council of Private pension fund...
- 26 April 2015 13:38
- The records of the conversations of His Beatitude Lyubomyr (Guzar) are available for downloading on the site of the church online store The church online store of the UGCC has opened the possibility to the users to download the licensed audio files from the resource (http://shop-ugcc.com.ua/zavantazhiti-audio.html) via SMS. Today the shop offers to download the records of the conversations of His Beatitude Lubomyr on various socio-political issues. Audiodisks are available for...
- 17 April 2015 17:05
- Words of Bishop Bohdan (Dzyurakh) during the Panakhyda memorial service for the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred addressed to the participants of Taize meeting in Kyiv Independence Square (Maidan Nezalezhnosti), 16 April 2015
- 02 April 2015 12:39
- UCU student fraternity invites youth from Eastern and Southern Ukraine for Easter For the fifth consecutive year the UCU student fraternity invites guests from other regions in Ukraine to celebrate Easter together. This year the project will take place from April 10-13. During four days students and guests from southern and eastern Ukraine will have the opportunity to make new friends, learn many new things about the history of Lviv,...
- 12 March 2015 12:47
- "People who are hiding in basements, hungry and freezing, but they don't move away from a conflict area because they are afraid of Western Ukraine," IDP woman from Donbas For the last year Caritas of Sambir-Drohobych Eparchy of the UGCC provided help to more than 1000 IDPs and victims of humanitarian crisis in Ukraine. Such assistance includes partially covering of rent/utility payments, food packages, purchasing of winter clothes, provision of medical aid and medical kits for large families, legal support,...
- 11 March 2015 12:38
- Recitation of the Taras Shevchenko’s poems in UCU On the 10th of March, on the occasion of the 201st anniversary of Taras Shevchenko’s birthday and of the 154th anniversary of his death dean of the faculty of humanities decided to organize the recitation of the poems written by Shevchenko.
- 02 March 2015 12:29
- UCU wrote an open letter to the rectors and academic communities of the Catholic Universities urging them to support Nadiya Savchenko To the Rectors and academic communities of the Catholic Universities, Members of the European Federation of Catholic Universities – FUCE February 27, 2015 Lviv, Ukraine
- 25 February 2015 13:42
- Caritas Ukraine restores houses of needy people in liberated from terrorists Slovyansk On early September 2014 Caritas Ukraine started the project of windows installation for nearly 1000 apartments and private houses in Slovyansk and its suburbs. Additionally windows in local school and kindergarten were installed. The main objective of this initiative is to restore safe and dignified life of people affected by military conflict in the...
- 25 February 2015
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- A member of UCU Humanities Department received the Jerzy Giedroyc from the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Ukraine At the beginning of February 2015, a member of UCU Humanities Department, Ivan Almes, received the First Award for the best M.A. thesis within the framework of the Eight Jerzy Giedroyc Competition by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Ukraine.
- 19 February 2015 13:38
- You cannot make peace with someone who does not want peace "Reconciliation - a mutual forgiveness. It happens in a very simple manner. We forgive and ask forgiveness. In short, it is an act of mutual forgiveness. This does not happen instantly. Certain steps are required. The first step is to realize that we hurt each other. It is not aI unilateral action to apologize because we have wronged someone else, and they are...
- 18 February 2015 12:35
- Pope Francis greeted Ukrainian Bishops and piligrims in Rome At St. Peter's Square, during general audience, Pope Francis welcomed Ukrainian bishops of the UGCC and RCC, who came to the Vatican for «ad limina» visit, as well as pilgrims from Ukraine, with a traditional Ukrainian Christian greeting "Glory to Jesus Christ!" and wished peace to this country.
- 18 February 2015 12:26
- Ukraine Facing a Triple Crisis, – Bishop Gudziak Ukraine is facing a “triple crisis: an economic chasm, the political challenge of reforming entirely the elite, the administration, the political culture at a time of the third critical factor – war – is really an incredible challenge,” said Bishop Borys Gudziak.

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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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