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25 July 2017, 17:19 | Reports |
| “Faith and Light” celebrates 25th anniversary of special friendship
Members of the Faith and Light movement try not only to serve the poor, do something for them, but to stay beside them, to become friends for them.
5 May 2017, 14:05 | Journalistic investigations |
Historical memory or legal rights: Baptists in Volyn struggle for the future of an ancient church
The ruins of the old church in the district center of Rozhische in Volyn have become the subject of controversy between the Protestants and the Orthodox. The temple was built in the nineteenth century by the Baptists, “the Soviets” expropriated and placed manufacturing plants in the church.
17 February 2017, 18:33 | Events & people |
Heroes of our time. A story of a missionary from Avdiyivka
How does it feel - to abandon ambitions or favorite work and go to the east of Ukraine, in the thick of war at the age of 20-22?
21 December 2016, 14:35 | Kaleidoscope |
| Ternopil amateur gives second life to rundown churches
The craftsman has also made architectural models, recreating the original appearance of the temples that have survived altered, and his plans include the creation of a museum of architectural models.
14 December 2016, 11:55 | Reports |
Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti about Vatican diplomacy, Ukraine and Syria
The Vatican’s international relations have their own unique history of diplomacy and influence the course of events. The special status of a mini-state, its uniqueness often allows exerting influence in places and in ways that are inaccessible to secular diplomats.
Expert thought
5 October 2017, 14:29 | James Siemens' column |
As a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church living in Cardiff, Wales, I am faced by the challenge of identifying myself on a regular basis.
16 August 2017, 09:23 | Andrew Sorokowski's column |
Ukrainian autocephaly is a threat to the Moscow Patriarchate’s control of East Slavic Orthodoxy. And the Moscow Patriarchate’s ecclesiastical control over Orthodoxy in Ukraine and Belarus is an important element of the Kremlin’s political control over those countries.
Religious Studies
7 July 2016, 13:11 | Religious studies |
Ukrainain Orthodoxy on the eve of Pan-Orthodox Council. Part III
The history evidences: the Local Churches that were historically associated with earthly empires were uninterested in the canonical establishment of local churches under their jurisdictions, and therefore usually granted autocephaly to churches only under the pressure of historic circumstances. No exception is the Moscow Patriarchate, which has incorporated the Orthodox Church in Ukraine since 1686.
5 July 2016, 14:22 | Religious studies |
Ukrainian Orthodoxy: path to recovery of Church unity. Part II
Ukrainian Orthodoxy and Ukrainian society suffer from division. The majority of Ukrainian Orthodox believers belong to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate. The rest of the Orthodox community of Ukraine has chosen a different path of self-proclaimed autocephaly. However, neither the first nor the second path is optimal for the Orthodox Church in Ukraine to date.
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Memorial Service for reposed Patriarch Lubomyr Husar in the Patriachal Cathedral in Kyiv
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Ukrainian bishop sees ‘real chance of peace’ in country’s crisis | 19 October 2017, 13:57 | Society-digest
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22 October 2017, 23:23 | Ukrainians outside of Ukraine
19 October 2017, 11:11 | Religious ceremonies and pilgrimage |
Relics of the underground bishop to be placed in the Patriarchal Cathedral of the UGCC
11 October 2017, 15:40 | International relations |
St John Paul II elected the holy patron of Polish-Ukrainian reconciliation
On October 11, 2017, during the prayer service to St. Josaphat at the grave of St. John Paul II in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, Rome, celebrations began on the occasion of the presentation of the reconciliation awards, the Polish-Ukrainian Capitula of 2017.
11 October 2017, 10:42 | Vatican |
Head of the UGCC in Vatican tells about ecumenical mission of Easter Catholic Churches
As part of the plenary session of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, held in these days in the Vatican, Patriarch Sviatoslav delivered a presentation on the ecumenical mission of the Eastern Catholic Churches.
10 October 2017, 09:29 | Vatican |
Pope to crown the Icon of the Mother of God from Zarvanytsia
The court vicar of the Ternopil-Zboriv Archeparchy of the UGCC Fr. Roman Dutchak reported to journalist of RISU Volodymyr Moroz about it. He will be one of those who will accompany the icon to Rome.
10 October 2017, 07:38 | Catholic world |
Pope Francis assured His Beatitude Sviatoslav of his support for Ukraine and said: "In front of the icon that you once presented to me in Argentina, I daily lit a candle for peace in Ukraine and pray for the end of the war."
10 October 2017, 07:33 | Catholic world |
Pope Francis held the meeting with the leaders of the Eastern Catholic Churches
I am convinced that one must give impetus and value in the Church the nexus between collegiality and the Petrine primacy, to exercise a “diaconal primacy”, that of the Servus servorum Dei.
9 October 2017, 11:30 | Ukrainians outside of Ukraine |
UGCC opens 24 pastoral centers for Ukrainian migrant workers in Poland
Such information was provided during the meeting of the delegation of Lviv Regional State Administration with the bishop of the Archdiocese of Przemysl and Warsaw of the UGCC, Yevhen Popovych and the clergymen, according to Varianty.
6 October 2017, 12:25 | Theology and religious education |
| Prayer Book of Unity presented in Lviv
The new prayer book should create a positive mood from prayer, expand the world view of the believer through familiarity with the riches of the Orthodox prayer tradition, in particular, with the practice of prayer of the Greek Church.
5 October 2017, 15:01 | Ukrainians outside of Ukraine |
Forum of Ukrainians to be held in Kazakhstan
On October 13-14, the Forum of Migrants will be held in the city of Karaganda, Kazakhstan, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the deportation of Ukrainians to Kazakhstan.
5 October 2017, 14:52 | Ukrainians outside of Ukraine |
3 October 2017, 14:02 | International relations |
International Colloquium of European Parishes 2019 will be held in Ukraine
The meeting in Lviv will be a jubilee one, the 30th. Responsible organizer of it is St. Volodymyr’s Foundation (UGCC).
28 September 2017, 11:36 | UGCC |
Patriarch Sviatoslav specifies the most important commitment of the UGCC today
On September 23, 2017, the third congress of laymen of the Kyiv-Halych Metropolitanate of the UGCC took place in the monastery of St. Basil the Great in Kyiv. The topic of this year's Congress is "The Strategy of the Metropolitan Development: WHAT we do, HOW we do it, together with whom we are doing it", the UGCC website reports.
21 September 2017, 09:58 | Church-state relations |
| Non-profit status of religious organizations discussed in Kyiv
On Wednesday, September 20, a roundtable discussion was held dedicated to "Peculiarities of the legal status of religious organizations in the legal framework of Ukraine: non-profit statu"”. The event was organized by the Department of Foreign Relations of the Patriarchal Curia of the UGCC in Ukraine.
20 September 2017, 10:44 | Conferences, seminars, researches |
UGCC presents public project “Ukraine United and Kyivan Church”
On September 19, at the National Preserve “St Sofia of Kyiv” Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Svyatoslav (Shevchuk) presented a public project “Ukraine United (Soborna) and the Kyivan Church”. It was reported by the Department of Information of the UGCC.
18 September 2017, 17:00 | UGCC |
His Beatitude Lubomyr’s niece studies genealogy of Husars’ family
Maria Ripan, the daughter of the native sister Martha and the goddaughter of His Beatitude Lubomyr (Husar), is working with archival documents to investigate the genealogy of her great relative.
12 September 2017, 14:57 | UGCC |
UGCC creates a new diocese and appoints its new hierarch
On September 12, the Vatican reported that Pope Francis approved the decision of the Synod of Bishops of the UGCC to establish the Diocese of Chernivtsi. His Eminence Joshaphat (Moshchych) was appointed its first bishop.
11 September 2017, 14:57 | UGCC |
Synod of Bishops of the UGCC to adopt a new charter, as “Church has grown”
The Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is planning to adopt the new Charter of the Synod. This was stated by Archbishop and Metropolitan Yevgeny (Popovich of Przemysl and Warsaw, Head of the Canonical Department of the UGCC in an interview with the Department of Information of the UGCC.
11 September 2017, 10:37 | Religious ceremonies and pilgrimage |
| Patriarchal pilgrimage held in Goshiv
The dismissal service in the Basilian Goshiv Monastery gathered on September 10 thousands of pilgrims. Bishops of the UGCC arrived for the dismissal service from parishes from west to east of Ukraine, far abroad - America, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, USA, Canada, Italy in Yasnaya Gora. They are so numerous because these days the Synod of Bishops of the UGCC convenes in Lviv.
30 August 2017, 12:23 | UGCC |
UGCC Hierarchs from all over the world come to Lviv Synod
As reported, on August 8, 2017, the Holy Father blessed the decision of the Synod of Bishops of the UGCC to appoint Father Andriy Rabia, the protosynclael of the Philadelphia Archdiocese of the UGCC in the United States, the Assistant Bishop of this archdiocese, giving him the titular seat of Germaniciana.