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Ukrainian Plast members to spread Bethlehem Fire

09-12-2010


On 11 December, the Ukrainian delegation of Plast members together with scouts from other countries will participate in the celebratory Mass in the Vienna Cathedral, where an international relay race "Bethlehem Fire of Peace." After the mass, the scout organizations will begin to spread the Bethlehem fire of peace in the European countries.

Magazine for blind children presented in Lviv

09-12-2010


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. Little Angel in Braille will appear each month in the form of an inlay in the relief-dot script as an edition of the national Ukrainian children's magazines Little Angel and Little Angel's Schooling.

Groups align to make 'Ukraine without orphans'

07-12-2010


By the year 2015, Ukraine will be a country without orphans, according to the vision of a newly established alliance known as Ukraine Without Orphans, CBN news inform.

Ukrainian TV to broadcast Christmas Service from Vatican

07-12-2010


On occasion of Christmas, the First National Channel of the Ukrainian TV and the "5th Channel" in cooperation with the Catholic Media Center will broadcast live the following services led by Pope Benedict XVI from the Vatican.

One in five Ukrainians would like to live life differently

07-12-2010


Almost one in five Ukrainians (17%) would have lived life differently if it were possible to start life again, according to a survey conducted by the sociological group Rating on October 4-11, 2010, the Kyiv Post reports.

All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Reigious Organizations vainly seeks meeting with President

07-12-2010


Assessing the church-state relations since Viktor Yanukovych took power, Secretary of the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate Bishop Yevstratii (Zoria) noted that despite all the negative tendencies of "the expectations of Patriarch Kirill and some hotheads from MP [Moscow Patriarchate] that the authorities embodied in Viktor Yanikovych will by all means help destroy the structure of the Kyivan Patriarchate have not proved true at all."

Bishop Benedict (Aleksiychuk): Employees of the church are not the administrative office but the people of God called to holines

07-12-2010


Bishop Benedict (Aleksiychuk) has blessed a new tradition at Lviv's St. George Cathedral - a daily prayer for all employees of the Church's structures.

His Beatitude Lubomyr thanks entrepreneurs for their activity and courage

07-12-2010


On December 2, 2010, administrators of the Kyiv-Mohyla Business School (kmbs) met with His Beatitude Lubomyr, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. The topic of the meeting was "Business and Spiritual Values."

His Beatitude Lubomyr blesses future Andrey Sheptytsky School

07-12-2010


Head of UGCC His Beatitude Lubomyr blessed the future Andrey Sheptytsky School, which is to open in September 2012 in Kyiv. According to SoborNews, the presentation of the new school was held on November 30 at the Patriarchal Curia of the UGCC.

New Protohegumen of Ukrainian Redemptoris elected

01-12-2010


On November 28, Fr. Ihor Kolisnyk of the Order of the Most Holy Redeemer was elected the new protohegumen of the Lviv Province of the Order of the Most Holy Redeemer for the next four years. He replaced the previous protohegumen, Fr. Vasyl Ivaniv.

Anniversary of Referendum on Ukrainian Independence marked

01-12-2010


On 1 December, 1991, Ukrainians supported the Act on Independence of Ukraine, which was passed by the Supreme Council of Ukraine on 24 August, 1991. The referendum ballot included the text of the Act on the proclamation of the independence of Ukraine and a question "Do you confirm the Act of proclamation of the independence of Ukraine?"

Lviv to participate in Cities for Life Day

30-11-2010


On November 30, 2010, the city of Lviv for the first time is to join over 1,200 cities around the world in illuminating one of its central monuments - the Boim Chapel, thus joining the international campaign "Cities for Life - Cities Against the Death Penalty!"

World Youth Day official website now in Ukrainian

30-11-2010


Due to the initiative of the Youth Commission of the Ukrainain Greek Catholic Church, there is now a Ukrainian version of the official website of World Youth Day. Ukrainian youth will easily find out how to join the meeting with Pope Benedict XVI in Madrid in 2011.

Christmas Fast begins in Ukraine

30-11-2010


Great Christian feasts always are accompanied with pre-feast fast. In the end of the year, there is a long fast, Pylypivka before Christmas. In the Ukrainian Orthodox and Greek Catholic churches, it begins on 28 November (according to the new style) and lasts until 6 January.

The Head of UGCC, uniting with Pope, prayed for every nascent life

30-11-2010


"Nowadays, great evil, called abortion, reigns in the world. Abortion is an act of killing an unborn child. And today we have gathered to pray for life, for the preservation of life, for God's help for all those who strive with the temptation to deprive own's child of life in their womb," said His Beatitude Lyubomyr during his prayer uniting with His Holiness Benedict XVI's for every nascent life.

Sect problem was a main topic of UGCC and RCC bishops meeting

26-11-2010


Another meeting of UGCC and RCC bishops had been held in Lviv on November 22-23. The main topic of the discussion had been sect problem which modern Christians face today.

Historian: Statement of bishops of UGCC urged international community to consider questions of Holodomor

26-11-2010


The address of the Greek Catholic bishops of July 24, 1933, "Ukraine in Death Agony" drew a response in western European countries regarding the subject of Holodomor. The active position of the clergy urged an authoritative Austrian cardinal, Theodor Innitzer, to become interested in the situation in USSR and to seek for ways to help the victims.

Heads of UOC-KP, UGCC, UAOC and RCC in Ukraine to lead memorial service for victims of Holodomor

26-11-2010


On the last Saturday of November, Ukraine remembers the victims of the Holodomor genocide of 1932-1933. On the Day of Remembrance of Victims of the Holodomor, on November 27, memorial events will be held in all the regional centers of Ukraine. The Day of Remembrance of Victims of the Holodomor will also be widely marked abroad. The memorial events in Kyiv will begin at 2:30 p.m. with a procession to the National Memorial of Holodomor Victims, where the heads of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, and Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine will serve a memorial service.

Lviv City mayor protested Kharkiv City mayor

25-11-2010


Lviv City mayor Andriy Sadovyy turned a protest to Kharkiv City mayor Hennadiy Kernes "because of brutal and public destruction of the memorial board to UGCC Patriarch Josip Slipyy".

Lviv City Council now has its own chaplain

25-11-2010


Lviv city mayor Andriy Sadovyy asked the head of Lviv Archeparchy of UGCC, bishop Ihor Voznyak, to appoint a chaplain for Lviv City Council. The city mayor announced this at the first working session of Lviv City Council of the 6th convocation on November 25.

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