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  • 17 January 2012, 14:49 | Children young people and religion | 

    Patriarch Sviatoslav Shares Secrets of Work with Youth

    Patriarch Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), said that the church has no special tactic for engaging young people in the church.

  • 30 December 2011, 10:48 | Religious ceremonies and pilgrimage | 

    Berlin Hosts Taize Youth Meeting

    The 34th European Meeting of Youth, which is organized annually by the Taize community, will be for the first time held in Berlin from 28 December, 2011 to 1 January, 2012.

  • 23 August 2011, 09:43 | Freedom of Conscience | 

    Odesa authorities ban procession of Roman Catholic community

    The sixth Diocesan Youth Day was held in Odesa from August 19 to 21. Youth from the Odesa-Simferopol diocese of the Roman Catholic Church, and also Khmelnytsky, Kyiv, Zhytomyr Oblasts attended this event.

  • 22 August 2011, 10:57 | World news | 

    Benedict XVI to Youth: See You In Rio De Janeiro

    A delegation of young Brazilians present at Cuatro Vientos in Madrid erupted with applause at Benedict XVI's official announcement that the next World Youth Day would take place in their country in 2013, Zenit informs.

  • 16 August 2011, 10:22 | Children young people and religion | 

    Madrid: World Youth Day celebrations start in Cibeles Square

    The "fiesta" of faith is about to begin. Half a million youngsters from 193 countries (with an average age of 22) have registered, but the number of pilgrims is expected to triple by the end of the WYD celebrations.

  • 11 August 2011, 17:16 | Religion and culture | 

    Christian Festival Held in Ternopil

    A large-scale Christian festival “I Believe in Jesus” was held in the western Ukrainian city of Ternopil on August 3-7.

  • 4 August 2011, 07:55 | Children young people and religion | 

    Interreligious Youth Seminar Held in Yaremche

    Students of three nationalities – Ukrainians, Poles and Jews – participated in the sixth international interreligious youth seminar Kovcheh-2011 – Children of One God, which was held in Yaremche, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast on July 27 - August 4.

  • 2 August 2011, 12:57 | Children young people and religion | 

    Ukrainian Orthodox Church Youth Football Cup to Be Held

    The Synodal Department for Youth Affairs of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) and the Football Federation of Ukraine with the Olympic Committee of Ukraine created a football project for Orthodox young people. In August qualifying matches of first football cup among Orthodox youth will be held.

  • 8 Jule 2011, 11:25 | Christians of Evangelical Faith | 

    Several thousand Pentecostals take part in national youth congress in Zhytomyr region

    The opening ceremony of the 14th national congress of young Ukrainian evangelical Christians took place on July 6, 2011, in the Zhytomyr Oblast. Traditionally, 3 to 6 thousand Christians from all regions of Ukraine gather at the youth forum. This year there are delegates from Russia, Belarus, Latvia, Poland, Germany, USA, and other countries.

  • 23 June 2011, 08:41 | Children young people and religion | 

    Greek Catholic youth in Kyiv to stage flash mob dedicated to Pope John Paul II

    On June 25, a flash mob “The Pope, Ukraine, and I” will be staged on Independence Square in Kyiv. The event will be dedicated to the 10th anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s visit to Ukraine.

  • 18 May 2011, 13:11 | Children young people and religion | 

    Ukrainian Greek Catholic head meets with students in Kyiv

    On May 17, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Patriarch Sviatoslav, held a meeting “Eternally Young and Modern Church” with students of Kyiv in the assembly hall of the Culture and Art Center of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

  • 13 May 2011, 09:06 | Conferences, seminars, researches | 

    Conference on Religion and Goverment Held at Ukrainian Catholic University

    On May 13-14, at the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) in Lviv, the 14th National Academic Conference “Religion and Authorities in Ukraine: Cultural Tradition, Modern Experience and Prospects” will be held.

  • 2 May 2011, 15:03 | Announcements | 

    Univ Monastery Invites Students to Participate in Annual Pilgrimage

    On May 13-15, the Society of the Ukrainian Catholic Students “Obnova” jointly with the Univ Monastery of the Holy Assumption of the Studite Order and the public organization Ukrainian Youth to Christ will holde the 18th annual youth walking pilgrimage from Lviv to Univ.

  • 4 April 2011, 15:22 | Children young people and religion | 

    Registration for World Youth Day to be completed by April 15

    Registration is conducted by the Committee on Matters of Youth of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) on the instruction of the Synod of Bishops of the UGCC. The committee is in charge of the formation and preparation of the Ukrainian delegation for the event. One can register either by approaching directly the committees on matters of youth of each eparchy of the UGCC, where the lists of the pilgrims will be compiled, or by filling a form at Dyven Svit.

  • 11 January 2011, 12:10 | Paganism | 

    Ukrainian pagans open school of magic for children

    The Ancestral Fire of the Native Orthodox Faith established in the Ternopil Oblast a school of magic, where minor “Harry Potters” study. Pupils come to the children’s Vedic academy called Vida three times a year, during the breaks in general education schools.

  • 11 January 2011, 08:54 | Religious holidays and traditions | 

    About 1,000 children from eastern Ukraine spent Christmas in Lviv

    Within the framework of the “East and West Together” campaign about 1,000 schoolchildren and teachers from Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Mykolayiv, Poltava, Kherson, Kharkiv, Crimea, and Kyiv oblasts came to Lviv to celebrate Christmas.

  • 31 December 2010, 09:38 | Religious holidays and traditions | 

    Ukrainain Greek Catholic Church Initiates Christmas Without Alcohol

    Those who wish to join in this initiative will refrain from consuming alcohol from January 6 to 19, 2011.

  • 25 December 2010, 23:02 | Children young people and religion | 

    Young Pilgrims flock to the Netherlands

    Thousands of young pilgrims from all over the world are in the Netherlands to attend a Taiz? gathering in Rotterdam, which began on Tuesday.

  • 8 December 2010, 10:50 | Children young people and religion | 

    Magazine for Blind Children Presented in Lviv

    The editorial staff of the children's publication Land of Little Angels on December 7 presented in Lviv the first Ukrainian magazine for blind children of a very young age.

  • 7 December 2010, 13:17 | Children young people and religion | 

    Groups Align to Make 'Ukraine Without Orphans'

    More than 500 Christians from around the world met in Kyiv at a three-day conference to launch the alliance.

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