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- 14 June 2014
  11:20
- A study tour for UGCC nuns who are economists through countries of Western Europe Within the framework of UCU Institute of Leadership and Management, A Study Program for UGCC female monastic orders and communities, a study tour for nuns who are economists tool place from May 30- June 7, 2014 through countries of Western Europe.
- 13 June 2014 14:58
- The whole world has become convinced that Ukraine is the home of numerous nationalities and religions, peacefully co-existing,” UGCC bishops We are very grateful for your efforts to inform your communities about the real nature of changes which are taking place in our country, in contrast to the skewed information which is directed against Ukraine and its Churches, especially against the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church.
- 04 June 2014 23:30
- "To think and act in new ways should the whole society, but above all - political elite", - Secretary of the Synod of UGCC Bishops To guarantee freedom of speech and conscience and ensure the ability of politicians to hear the people - these priorities, according to the Secretary of the Synod of Bishops Bishop Bogdan (Dzyurah) is facing the new president of Ukraine in the humanitarian field.
- 27 April 2014 12:06
- Ukrainian prime minister Arsenii Yatsenuk visits Vatican On Saturday 26 April 2014 Pope Francis received Ukrainian Prime Minister Arsenii Yatseniuk, who was subsequently received by Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin. The content of their discussions will be published in upcoming days.
- 20 March 2014 16:51
- UGCC is offering training for priests who are providing pastoral services to people on the Maidan Kyiv Archeparchy of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church is holding psychological training –seminars for priests who are providing pastoral services to people on the Maidan and are offering assistance to those who have experienced stress after the events of February 20th.
- 08 March 2014
  10:18
- U.S. Congressman expressed his support of the people of Ukraine This, in a telephone conversation with Fr. Lubomyr Zhybak, a priest of the Archeparchy of Kyiv of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, who currently ministers as Administrator of the Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Church in Youngstown (Ohio, USA), expressed on Wednesday, March 5, 2014 Mr. Tim Ryan, Congressman of the House of Representatives of the...
- 07 March 2014 13:21
- Peace for Ukraine: Statement of Swiss Bishops’ Conference Swiss bishops, following Pope Francis’s lead, called for all people of good will to pray for peace in Ukraine. It is necessary to support all initiatives that encourage dialogue and reject violence, reads the statement that was delivered March 6at the end of the meeting of the Swiss Bishops’ Conference, held March 3-5....
- 06 March 2014 13:29
- His Beatitude Lubomyr; “The critical situation in Crimea has to be resolved without bloodshed.” The situation which has developed between Ukraine and Russia, wherein Russia without justification has aggressively brought in forces onto Ukrainian territories has to be solved without bloodshed.
- 06 March 2014 12:40
- Statement on the Crisis in Ukraine The bishops of the United States, together with tens of millions of U.S. Catholics of Eastern European descent, join Pope Francis in solidarity and prayers for the people of Ukraine for an end to the current tensions and troubling events which continue to unfold there. We are grateful for the call of Pope Francis, that all “endeavor to overcome...
- 02 March 2014 00:22
- Appeal of the Ukrainian Churches on the Occasion of the Foreign Aggression Dear Brothers and Sisters! In this difficult time when military units of the Russian Federation, violating international and bilateral agreements, entered the sovereign territory of Ukraine and the Soviet of Federation by presentation of the President of Russia has given its permission to use employment of the Russian troops in Ukraine – we, first of...
- 27 February 2014 16:20
- Bishop Bohdan (Dziurakh) met with the Apostolic Nuncio of the European Union In Brussels a meeting took place between Bishop Bohdan (Dziurakh), Secretary of UGCC Synod of Bishops, and the Apostolic Nuncio of the European Union, Archbishop S.E. Mons. Alain Paul Lebeaupin, and the General Director of the Department of Crisis Response of the Office of External Relations of the European Parliament, Agostino Miozzo....
- 27 February 2014 16:16
- Bishop Bohdan (Dziurakh): “The fallen heroes themselves stopped the evil so that it would not touch all of us” “Today our hearts are full of pain, sorrow, and prayers. We look today at the faces of our friends, brothers and sisters - verified by their love. Because it is due to the love towards God and the native land, that they gave their lives. In studying the faces of our co-patriots, we ask ourselves, what assignment are they delegating to us, what testament have they...
- 21 February 2014 13:31
- "We need to cool " hot head " and return to peaceful resistance, which is a productive way of confrontation between good and evil ..." - The Head of UGCC Maidan deaths shocked the whole Ukrainian society and to some extent "sobered" it... violence is never a constructive way to solve problems. There is an important moral norm: the end does not justify the means of achieving it, because it is impossible to reach a holy purpose by criminal means, fraud, lies, murder or private ambition....
- 09 February 2014 15:14
- Ministry of Social Policy asks for lists of people to distribute 15 tons of humanitarian aid among them For several days Stefan Batrukh, a Greek Catholic priest from Poland, has been trying to get customs clearance for the humanitarian aid for needy Ukrainians. The aid was donated by the Poles to the parish of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Kyiv.
- 06 February 2014 15:37
- Pope Francis:"A statesman speculates neither God’s name nor his people" Do not use God and the people for self-defence in a difficult time, and always choose the way of presenting yourselves to the Lord - called Pope Francis during a homily, spoken in the residence chapel of the "St. Martha’s House" on Monday, February 3, 2014 . In his homily, he described the biblical story about Absalom’s rebellion against his father David....

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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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