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  • 27 January 2012, 18:05 | World news | 

    Ethics and Morality highlighted at Davos

    Religious leaders and the founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab today discussed the possibility of establishing a Global Forum on Ethics.The issue of ethics has been high on the agenda at the Davos summit with Mr Schwab saying he wants this year's forum to place particular emphasis on it.

  • 16 December 2011, 23:29 | Vatican | 

    Roman Pope Thanks Ukraine for Christmas Tree

    On Friday, December 16, 2011, at noon, Pope Benedict XVI received the Ukrainian delegation to thank them for the Christmas tree, which this year will decorate St. Peter's Square.

  • 24 November 2011, 15:51 | World news | 

    Belarusian Christians Sue Minsk Police

    Christian organizations in Minsk filed a lawsuit today against police in connection with the violent dispersal on November 22 of Christians gathered in the Belarusian capital's October Square, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reports.

  • 15 November 2011, 10:14 | UGCC | 

    Ukrainian Greek Catholic Head Addresses American Catholic Bishops

    The general session of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is being held on November 14-16, in Baltimore in the United States.

  • 2 November 2011, 12:37 | World news | 

    Pope prays for Eastern Catholic Churches in November

    The Pope's general prayer intention for November is: “That the Eastern Catholic Churches and their venerable traditions may be known and esteemed as a spiritual treasure for the whole Church.”

  • 10 October 2011, 14:34 | Church-state relations | 

    RUSSIA DENIES PERMIT TO BUILD CATHOLIC CHURCH

    Archbishop Paolo Pezzi of the Diocese of the Mother of God in Moscow, Russia, is protesting against the rejection of a permit to build a Catholic church in the northeastern Russian town of Pskov.

  • 26 September 2011, 16:20 | Catholic world | 

    Monument to John Paul II to be set up in Moscow

    Monument to Pope John II of Rome will be opened on September 30 at the inner yard of the Foreign Literature Library in Moscow, Interfax-religion reports.

  • 23 September 2011, 16:11 | Catholic world | 

    Pope Benedict arrives in Germany 'to speak about God'

    Pope Benedict XVI has arrived in Germany at the beginning of a four-day state visit. At the official welcoming ceremony he told crowds that he had come back to his homeland "to meet people and to speak about God."

  • 25 August 2011, 12:43 | Catholic world | 

    World Youth Day Nets $230 Million For Madrid

    Arturo Fernandez, the president of Madrid's House of Commerce said Aug. 22 that hotels, transportation services and businesses in the Spanish capital took in nearly $230 million during World Youth Day.

  • 8 August 2011, 13:23 | UGCC | 

    Patriarch Sviatoslav Installs Apostolic Exarch for Greek Catholic Ukrainians in Great Britain

    The installation of the fifth Apostolic Exarch for Greek Catholic Ukrainians of Great Britain, Bishop Hlib (Lonchyna), was administered on August 2 before the hierarchical Divine Service in the Cathedral of the Holy Family in Exile in London.

  • 4 August 2011, 13:40 | Vatican | 

    Pope recommends Bible for vacation reading

    Pope Benedict XVI has urged Catholics to read the Bible while on vacation, particularly the lesser known books of sacred scripture.

  • 20 Jule 2011, 17:55 | Catholic world | 

    Testimony on communist persecution of UGCC clergy given at Catholic congress in Hungary

    A delegation of seven people representing the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) is taking part in the International Congress of Eastern and Western Catholic Churches of Europe, which is being held from July 17-22 in the Hungarian city of Ny?regyh?za. In view of the congress’s topic, “The Parish – A Place of Hope,” the preservation of the church and faith through hope was discussed.

  • 18 Jule 2011, 08:29 | Interchurch relations | 

    Delegation of the Hungarian Greek Catholic Church visits Ukraine

    The official delegation of the Hungarian Greek Catholic Church visited Ukraine last week in preparation for the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Eparchy of Hajd?dorog be held in 2012. The delegation included two bishops, in particular the head of the Hungarian Greek Catholic Church F?l?p Kocsis, as well as priests with their families.

  • 14 June 2011, 14:07 | Catholic world | 

    Pope to Moldova: Retain your Christian values

    In a letter he hand delivered Thursday to Stefan Gorda, the new ambassador of Moldova to the Holy See, upon receiving the envoy's letters of credence, the Pope warned against losing "the age-old values of your culture."

  • 13 June 2011, 12:30 | Catholics | 

    10th anniversary of the historic visit of the Blessed Pope John Paul II to Ukraine

    The celebration program of the 10th anniversary of the historic visit of the Blessed Pope John Paul II to Ukraine

  • 10 May 2011, 14:27 | Catholic world | 

    More than 340,000 signed up for World Youth Day

    Some 340,000 young people from more than 170 countries have signed up to participate in World Youth Day Madrid.

  • 30 April 2011, 10:18 | Catholics | 

    Beatification of John Paul II to be broadcast on First National TV Channel

    The divine service on the occasion of the beatification of Pope John Paul II on Sunday, May 1, will be broadcast live on the First National Channel, reports the website of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

  • 19 April 2011, 15:34 | Religious mass media and Internet | 

    RISU blogger to take part in Vatican meeting

    Bogdan Pankevych, one of the first RISU bloggers, was invited to participate in the forum of Catholic bloggers, which will be held on May 2 in Rome.

  • 28 March 2011, 18:23 | Interchurch relations | 

    Gregorios III attended enthronement of head of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

    His Beatidude Gregorios III Laham Patriarch Of Antioch, Alexandya, and Jerusalem attended the enthronement of the new Major Archbishop Kyiv-Halych of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk).

  • 2 March 2011, 11:58 | UOC (MP) | 

    Russian Orthodox Church hierarch calls for strategic alliance with Catholics, Protestants

    Russia’s moral and demographic situation raises a question about its future, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Synodal Department for External Church Relations, said.

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