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17 April 2020 20:19
- During a quarantine an urge of socializing is increasing, yet we cannot transmit a life of Church in a complete online format, - Head of the UGCC Our believers have never communicated with their priests so actively. Apart from using smartphones they switched to Zoom, Viber, Facebook, Instagram, all those means which have recently become popular. An idea shared by His Beatitude Sviatoslav in his comment to an April number of program “An Open Church” how Church is going to fight for young...
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17 April 2020 20:14
- Head of the UGCC: Let us not resort to apocalyptic thinking. It is detrimental to our health! One should not fear that some period of our global culture is ending. I would not advise fostering apocalyptic moods as it is very damaging to your health. The Lord God is always an ally of human health.
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16 April 2020 21:09
- His Beatitude Sviatoslav had a working meeting with the Head of the National Police of Ukraine On April 15, 2020, at the residence of the Head of the Church, His Beatitude Sviatoslav met with the Head of the National Police of Ukraine, Police General of the third rank Ihor Klymenko.
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16 April 2020 11:24
- UGCC Head on the causes of the coronavirus: We, Christians, believe in a merciful God When we see a horrible trouble ahead, obviously everyone asks “what have I done to deserve this?” Christians are seeking spiritual answers to this question. As Christians we do not believe in a punishing God. We believe in a merciful God.
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15 April 2020 22:53
- With gratitude and admiration, I gaze today on your pastoral zeal, His Beatitude Sviatoslav in Pastoral Letter to the Clergy of the UGCC With gratitude and admiration, I gaze today on your pastoral zeal for human souls in these circumstances of great universal pain and general anxiety. I was particularly impressed with the words of our brother in Italy, who said: “I do not fear this virus! I am only afraid of becoming a carrier of this disease and threatening the lives of my parishioners...
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15 April 2020 22:47
- Mechanical ventilation presented by Ivano-Frankivsk cathedral will be connected to a patient today On Wednesday, April 15, archbishop and metropolitan of Ivano-Frankivsk Volodymyr Viytyshyn together with an archpriest Yuriy Novitskyi, a parish priest of the cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ transferred ventilators for the needs of Regional Infectious Diseases Hospital of Ivano-Frankivsk.
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15 April 2020 09:44
- The Head of the UGCC met with the commander of the National Guard of Ukraine On April 14, 2020, His Beatitude Sviatoslav, Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, met with Lieutenant -General Mykola Balan, Commander of the National Guard of Ukraine. The meeting was held at the residence of the Head of the UGCC. The participant of the conversation was also Fr. Andriy Zelinsky, SJ, Deputy Head of the Department of Military...
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14 April 2020 12:54
- His Beatitude Sviatoslav to the priests: People are the greatest wealth of our Church, so take care of them! People are our greatest wealth. In today's circumstances, caring for our faithful means communicating with them, and, after learning about their needs, responding as quickly as possible. The Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, His Beatitude Sviatoslav, said this during an online meeting with UGCC priests serving in Austria,...
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13 April 2020 12:27
- Head of the UGCC to the youth of Ukraine and world: take in your hands, like green branches, Christian values, and greet Christ with them His Beatitude Sviatoslav stressed that after the great epidemics in the past, people began to look at each other in a new way and to rethink life values. "We see today that we are facing such a 'new time'. We can confidently say that global humanity will be different. However, it will only depend on us.”...
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12 April 2020 16:42
- His Beatitude Sviatoslav on Palm Sunday: The power of God is an ally of man in the face of sickness, suffering, and death May this feast be the feast of the power of God, who is an ally of man in the face of sickness, suffering and death. May God be an ally of young men who want to change this world for the better. This was stated today by His Beatitude Sviatoslav, Father and Head of the UGCC, during a sermon to the faithful on Palm Sunday at the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection...
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12 April 2020 16:39
- May the suffering of people in eastern Ukraine come to an end, Pope Francis in his Easter Urbi et Orbi message Delivering the traditional Easter message "to the city of Rome and the world " (Urbi et Orbi), His Holiness Pope Francis mentioned Ukraine and wished "to end the suffering of the people in eastern regions of Ukraine." Standing before the main altar of St. Peter's Basilica, the Pope called on the world to reject "indifference, self-centredness, division...
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11 April 2020 16:37
- Christ Church has always worked against a pandemic called “sin”, - bishop Yosyf Milyan “Christ’s Church has always worked against a pandemic called “sin”. Everything negative what is happening in this world is caused by a sin anyway. Inappropriate usage of resources, land, approach to science… Examples are numerous”. Said bishop Yosyf Milyan, bishop auxiliary of Kyiv Archeparchy during an online meeting on April 9, 2020 held by 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 17 September
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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