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- 23 September 2013 11:23
- Collaboration and co-existence on the same territory of the Church and the State was discussed in Strasbourg The goals and tasks of the European Council, particularly in the legal sphere, were the focus of the gathering of advisers on legal issues of the Bishops’ Conferences in Europe, who met for the first time in Strasbourg on September 12-14, 2013. The goal of the meeting was to deepen knowledge about European institutions as well as to discuss and exchange...
- 23 September 2013 11:13
- His Beatitude Lubomyr: “We do not want to send our children abroad; we do not want to lose them. But is it better to lose a child in Ukraine?” During this week’s session deputies will decide for the eight time whether they should join the Convention on Protection of Children and Collaboration on Issues of International Adoption, which aims at regulating this process. It is international adoption itself which, unfortunately, quite often becomes the last resort for an older or sick child to...
- 19 September 2013
  14:26
- The heads of Christian Churches of Ukraine: «The ecological crisis is rooted in the crisis of human spirituality» The heads of Ukrainian Churches appealed to believers and people of good will on the occasion of the Day of Prayer for the preservation of the environment and the whole world which was created by God.
- 18 September 2013
  15:30
- It will be thought in Assis how to save the planet "Environment and energy plan , supply , consumption and reuse " - was the title of the international meeting " Earth is Our Mother " held in Assis on September 19, 2013 and dedicated to the VIII Day of environmental defence.
- 12 September 2013 18:58
- Life-giving Soil for a New Generation It is well-known that the growth of a plant is largely dependent on its environment. Yes, given a plant which has adequate light, kept at a proper temperature, and protects itself from any harmful outside forces, it is likely to grow well.
- 12 September 2013 18:48
- A book of UGCC was presented at the Lviv Book Forum At the Lviv Book Forum, a new book, Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church: First Steps. Bearing Witness. Rebirth., was presented. Among other places, this book is also available at the stands of the publications Svidchado and Nash format.
- 11 September 2013 17:27
- Prayer in Ivano-Frankivsk for peace in Syria On September 7th, in the parish of Saints Cyril and Methodius, located in Krykhivka near Ivano-Frankivsk, there was an evening prayer vigil for no armed conflict in Syria as a sign of solidarity and spiritual unity with Holy Father Francis and UGCC Head His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk). This information was provided by the press center of the parish....
- 10 September 2013 17:27
- The UGCC prepare instructions for priests in the election campaign Till the end of the year in the first reading in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church it is planned to approve the instruction for pastors how to behave during the electioneering
- 05 September 2013 16:59
- UGCC Head appeals to all to join in prayers for refraining from armed conflict in Syria “We, the sons and daughters of Christ, cannot simply standby and observe the tragedy in Syria, but we should unite in prayer and fasting for God’s gift of peace to this much-suffering land, remembering Christ’s words: “Blessed are the peacekeepers, for they will be known as the sons of God.
- 01 September 2013 23:28
- UGCC Head: “Pastors need to constantly search for the key to the heart of youth” Today it is very important for the Church to communicate effectively with youth, to transmit the words of Christ’s Gospel in words understandable to them, given that the culture of communication is changing so rapidly in that various social groups and entities formulate their own style, their own language and categories of thinking. The head and father of...
- 31 August 2013
  23:21
- UGCC Department on Issues of Ecology is conducting a competition on Responsibility for Creation The ecological competition on Responsibility for Creation has begun. UGCC Ecology Department is conducting the third annual contest on the occasion of the Day of God the Creator (September 1/14), which Christians in the whole world note as a day of prayer and responsibility for the natural environment. ...
- 27 August 2013 22:16
- His Beautitude Lubomyr: “Have the politicians, who commemorated this date, become better Christians?” The commemoration of the Baptism of Rus-Ukraine has no sense, if it is devoid of its religious content. His Beatitude Archbishop Emeritus Lubomyr (Husar) in Dzerkalo Tyzhnia voiced this contention in answer to the question how does His Beatitude Lubomyr evaluate the celebration of the 1025th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus-Ukraine on the state level?...
- 26 August 2013
  22:29
- UGCC eparchies will hold lectures on social teachings of the Church Due to the initiative of UGCC Commission on Justice and Peace together with UGCC Office of Ecology, from September to December 2013 there will be “Lectures on the Social Doctrine of the Church” in the parishes of the Kyiv-Halych Major Archbishopric.
- 22 August 2013 13:40
- United States Ambassador noted the atmosphere of spirituality and joy during the blessing of UGCC Patriarchal Cathedral On August 21, 2013 in the UGCC Patriarchal Curia on Instytutska St. in Kyiv His Beatitude Sviatoslav met with the new Ambassador of USA Geoffrey Pyatt. The meeting was held at the request of the U.S. Ambassador.
- 21 August 2013 18:15
- “The Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church did not simply come out of the catacombs - it became a Church of high spirituality,” Leonid Kravchuk The first president of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, believes that the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church celebrated the 1025th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus-Ukraine at an appropriate dignified level. According to a reporter from UGCC Department of Information, Leonid Kuchma made such a statement on August 20th at a press conference in Kyiv....

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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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