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- 12 February 2015 12:16
- A new Baccaulareate program in Sociology will start at UCU in the coming 2015-2016 academic year A new Baccaulareate program in Sociology will start at UCU in the coming 2015-2016 academic year. The course will include subjects such as: Public Health (Health, illness, and culture; Enhancing health; Standardization and certification ofactivities in the area of protecting health; Managing specific sub-systems of the protection of health), work...
- 10 December 2014 12:54
- Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn met with the Prime Minister of Ukraine On Wednesday, December 10, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, the Papal Legate, who came to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the release of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church from the underground, met with Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
- 01 December 2014 17:56
- UGCC offers the non-governmental pension fund "Pokrova" ("Protection") as a tool for social protection of the clergy and laity Every day every Ukrainian hears the word "inflation" and "devaluation" and is worried how to feed his family and keep his savings in a time when the banking sphere of Ukraine suffers from a major crisis. In the challenges of present the Church cares about the social protection of its children and is looking for the best mechanisms for that not to happen at the...
- 22 November 2014 12:39
- In Philadelphia, married priests and wives find respect and acceptance When Eastern-rite dioceses were formed in areas where the Roman Catholic Church already had dioceses, opposition to the practice of ordaining married men arose from the Roman Catholic bishops, led by Archbishop John Ireland in Minneapolis. This led to a partial ban in such countries in the 1890s, and a formal ban “cum data fuerit” in 1929, which caused some...
- 20 November 2014 22:03
- UGCC Head meets with Ambassador from Japan 18th of November, 2014 , His Beatitude Sviatoslav, UGCC Father and Head, met with Mr. Shiheki Suma, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Japan to Ukraine, at the Ambassador's request.
- 15 November 2014
  16:21
- Over two thousand settlers from the East and Crimea are registered in Caritas of Kolomyia-Chernivtsi Eparchy The project "Settlers" is coordinated by Olena Dolzhykova. This topic is well known for her, because two weeks ago the woman herself as a settler came to Kolomyia. Now she is an employee of Caritas - she helps people who, looking for peace and a better life, fled from war.
- 11 November 2014
  16:33
- Within the lecture series they talked about authority and cooperation On November 10, 2014, in Lviv in the Church of the Annunciation of the Holy Mother of God, the next meeting of the UGCC Commission of Justice and Peace, “Lectures on the Social Doctrines of the Church in the parishes of the Kyiv-Halych Archeparchy” took place. Topic of the meeting was “Government, Christian understanding. Work. Working relationships,...
- 11 September 2014 12:59
- UGCC representatives participated in the 18th Renovabis Charitable Fund International Congress On September 5, 2014 in the city of Freising near Munich (Germany), the 18th Annual International Congress, organized by the Renovabis Charitable Fund concluded. This year the topic of the Congress was : Church – Media – Public Opinion .
- 28 August 2014 13:13
- Knights of Columbus supreme convention hears about Ukraine The Annual Supreme Convention of the Knights of Columbus held this year in Orlando, Florida, featured a special evening of hosting delegates from Ukraine, Lithuania, and Poland. Participants heard a magnificent presentation by Rev. Volodymyr Malchyn, Chaplain to the first Ukrainian Greek Catholic Council of the Knights of Columbus in Kyiv, Ukraine. ...
- 24 August 2014 19:18
- On Independence Day, Pope Francis prayed for Ukraine On Sunday, August 24,2014, after saying the prayer “Angelus Domini” with thousands of pilgrims who gathered on St. Peter's Square in the Vatican, Pope Francis greeted Ukraine with its Independence Day. Just as he mentioned Ukraine, his words were interrupted with long applauses by all present there....
- 13 August 2014
  17:11
- The European bishops to the United Nations: stop the cycle of violence in Iraq The Council of European Bishops’ Conferences has sent a letter signed by the Presidents of Bishops’ Conferences from the entire continent members of CCEE to the United Nations Security Council.
- 14 July 2014 17:05
- His Beatitude Lyubomyr: "Who wants to know Ukrainian – must read Shevchenko" Archbishop Emeritus Lyubomyr (Gusar) believes that Taras Shevchenko of all Ukrainian poets could highlight our Ukrainian soul the best.
- 03 July 2014 11:58
- Bishop Bohdan (Dziurakh): “War and peace begin in human hearts” In the light of God’s Word we can better understand the sufferings which have befallen us, our families, or our people. Bishop Bohdan (Dziurakh) , Administrator of the Patriarchal Curia, talked about this today, July 3rd, in the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ during his sermon at the Divine Liturgy for the staff of the Patriarchal...
- 24 June 2014 15:26
- Bishop Bogdan (Dzyurakh) thanked high-ranking officials of European institutions for the support of Ukraine Thank you for supporting our country during the Revolution of dignity, when our nation at the expense of great sacrifices freed from the dictatorial regime as equally for the clear and strong position of the Council of Europe on the issue of the Crimea annexation and armed aggression in Eastern Ukraine....
- 20 June 2014 14:51
- Bishop Borys (Gudziak) gave a lecture on rock music “Rock is not evil” – this thought was demonstrated in his lecture by Bishop Borys (Gudziak), UCU president. The lecture has been given annually as part of a course “Christian spirituality in the post-modern era.” This year it was open to the public.

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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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