June 2011: 10th Anniversary of Visit of Pope John Paul II to Ukraine

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.

15 June 2011, 15:23 | Comments | 

Pope John Paul II taught us an important lesson: he came to Ukraine not to argue with Russia but to raise the significance of the Kyivan Christian tradition

Moscow voiced its categorical protests, the Orthodox hierarchy in Kyiv advised against it, and the Roman Curia and the entire Catholic world warned against “unwisely upsetting Moscow.” One had to be very strong to go against this critical “Gulf Stream.”

6 June 2011, 14:00 | Interview | 

Standing in a few meters away from John Paul II, I was wondering what powerful energy, what power of Word and Faith that weak, sick person had, - Ihor Balynskyi

Less than half of the press service for the visit of His Holiness John Paul ІІ to Ukraine in 2001, working in Lviv, were professional journalists. Meanwhile their word was highly praised by foreign journalists who had covered many apostolic visits. Creation and maintenance of the official visit’s website was supervised by Ihor BALYNSKYI, political scientist, head of the Journalism Department of the Humanities Faculty at UCU, Docent of the Journalism Faculty at the Ivan Franko National University in Lviv.