RISU

The head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Patriarch Sviatoslav Shevchuk, celebrated a liturgy at the Ukrainian Catholic University on February 2.

A celebratory mass on the occasion of the 600th anniversary of the transfer of the capital of the Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church from Halych to Lviv was held on February 1, in the Latin Cathedral.

On 30 January, in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), the Conference of the Chief Military Chaplains of the NATO Countries was launched.

"I still believe conflicts need to be resolved more energetically, if not fully, in order for this meeting to be successful," the Patriarch said in an interview with the Serb newspaper Vecherniye Novosti.

The London branch of the Ukrainian Youth Association hosted a presentation on Saturday, January 28th, on the life of Josyf Slipyj, Cardinal and Patriarch, who spent 18 years in Soviet concentration camps persecuted for his faith and allegiance to the Ukrainian Catholic Church.

On January 25, the Church of Christians of Evangelical Faith of Ukraine (CCEFU) invited ministers and faithful of different denominations to a joint prayer meeting in the Kyiv Philadelphia Church as RISU reported earlier.

On January 21, in the eastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhia, in the Church of St. Paul of the Roman Catholic Church, an interdenominational prayer meeting was held as part of the World Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

Representatives of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC), Roman Catholic Church (RCC), Armenian Apostolic Church and the Church of Christians of Evangelical Faith participated in an interdenominational prayer for unity held on January 24 in the chapel of the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU).

On January 25, at 7 p.m., in the Church of Christians of Evangelical Faith (CCEF) Philadelphia (57 Holosiivska Street, Kyiv), an interdenominational prayer will be conducted as part of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. The ecumenical service will be attended the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), Patriarch Sviatoslav Shevchuk and Senior Bishop of the Churches of Christians of Evangelical Faith of Ukraine, Mykhailo Panochko.

On 20-23 January, in Kyiv, the meetings of the 15th (30th) session of the Permanent Synod of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church were held.

On January 22, representatives of Christian Churches of Ukraine jointly prayed for the unity of Christianity in the Church of St. Basil the Great of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Kyiv.

Archbishop Lubomyr Husar of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) expressed his satisfaction with the present leadership of Patriarch Sviatoslav in an interview to Unian.

Patriarch Sviatoslav of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) initiated an ecumenical prayer to be held at 6 p.m., on January 22, in the Church of St. Basil the Great of the UGCC.

Lutheran and Catholic bishops addressed Metropolitan Ahafangel (Savin) of Odesa and Izmail of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate with an open letter.

During a visit to the eastern Ukrainian city of Cherkasy, Patriarch Sviatoslav stated that the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is taking measures so that the church is not used by any political party for political purpses.

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.

On 18 January, in the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin, the Week of Prayers for the unity of Christians and reconciliation between people, nations and communities will begin .

According to Myroslav Marynovych, The key to spiritual purification is found in the system of values and ideas around which people are ready to unite and for the sake of which they are ready to sacrifice even their lives.

The newly created website of the Patriarchal Pilgrimage Center (PPC) presents information on 83 shrines.

Growing interest in religion – decreasing impact of Christian ethics? With this challenging question chosen as the topic of the inaugural lecture, German theologian Dr. Alois Buch started his teaching engagement in Ukraine as a Professor of Christian social sciences and contemporary ethics at the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) based in Lviv.