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Municipality Returns Churches to Odesa Catholics31.07.2003, [20:16] // RCC //
ODESA, JULY 29, 2003 (Zenit.org).- Civic authorities in Ukraine unanimously voted to return Church buildings, confiscated by Bolshevik revolutionaries over 80 years ago, to the Catholic community. Municipal deputies will hand over the property to the Latin rite Catholic diocese of Odesa-Simferopol, reconstituted by John Paul II in 2002 over the diocese that existed before the revolution.
Representatives of All Greek Catholic Monastic Communities Meet in Lviv31.07.2003, [20:13] // UGCC //
Lviv-- A conference of monks and nuns of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) entitled “Transfiguration in God” was held in western Ukrainian Lviv from 21 to 26 July 2003. It was aimed at preparation for the forthcoming monastic congress and discussion of daily problems, and gathered representatives of all monastic communities and monasteries of the UGCC. Among those present at the conference were also Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop Stanislaw Padewski of Lviv, Archbishop Ihor Isichenko of the Ukrainian Orthodox Autocephalous Church, and guests from abroad. Basilian Fr. Yosyf Budai, a participant at the conference, commented on his order’s activities, including missions outside of western Ukraine.
Greek Catholic Exarchate Has No Building in Odesa30.07.2003, [01:10] // UGCC //
Odesa -- Currently southern Ukrainian Odesa has no building for the newly created Odesa and Crimea exarchate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), said Fr. Mykhailo Ivantsyk, the UGCC archpriest for Odesa and the region, on 29 July 2003.
Kyiv Roman Catholics Ask State Authorities to Stop Construction near Cathedral30.07.2003, [01:09] // RCC //
Kyiv -- The Roman Catholic community of St. Nicholas in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and Bishop Stanislaw Shyrokoradiuk, vicar general of the Kyiv and Zhytomyr diocese, have sent a letter to President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, Volodymyr Lytvyn, head of the Ukrainian Parliament, and Oleksandr Omelchenko, mayor of Kyiv, asking to stop the construction of an office building on the protected territory of the Cathedral of St. Nicholas, which is a monument of architecture of Ukraine. This news was reported by the Catholic Media Center on 25 July 2003.
Greek Catholics in Odesa and Crimea Get Exarchate and New Bishop
29.07.2003, [21:16] // UGCC //
The Apostolic Nunciature in Ukraine on 28 July 2003 announced that Pope John Paul II has approved the following decisions of the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC): 1) the creation of the exarchate of southern Ukrainian Odesa and Crimea by dividing the territory of the Kyiv and Vyshhorod exarchate; 2) the appointment of Fr. Vasyl Ivasiuk of the Sokal eparchy as exarch of Odesa and Crimea.
Source: www.ugcc.org.ua
Sknyliv Air Show Victims Commemorated in Lviv29.07.2003, [21:14] // news //
Lviv -- Approximately five thousand people in western Ukrainian Lviv came to the Sknyliv air base on 27 July 2003 to commemorate the victims of last year’s air show disaster.
Orthodox Youth Discuss Globalization and Church-State Relations in Kherson29.07.2003, [21:13] // UOC-MP //
Kherson -- An international congress of Orthodox youth entitled “Orthodoxy, Globalization and Social and Moral Guidelines for Society” was held in southern Ukrainian Kherson eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate from 20 to 25 July 2003.
Church in Need Says Religion under Surveillance in Ukraine
28.07.2003, [20:29] // Violation of rights //
Rome-- According to the German-based charitable organization Aid to the Church in Need, in former communist countries such as Belarus and Ukraine, the Catholic Church and other Christian denominations continue to suffer violence during their evangelization activities. On 26 July 2003 ZENIT.org presented an adapted synthesis of Aid to the Church in Need's 2003 Report on Religious Freedom in the World, which included a section on Ukraine. Excerpts follow.
Orthodox (UOC-MP) Monks and Nuns Meet for the First Time in Kyiv25.07.2003, [19:49] // UOC-MP //
A meeting of superiors of 160 monastic communities of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) was held in the Kyivan Monastery of the Caves on 24 July 2003. The topic of the meeting was the participation of monastic communicates in the spiritual and moral renewal of the Ukrainian nation and return to the sources of its spirituality.
Former Greek Catholic Bishop of Toronto and Eastern Canada Dies at 9225.07.2003, [19:18] // UGCC //
Toronto-- The Most Reverend Bishop Isidore Borecky, the former eparch of Toronto and Eastern Canada, fell asleep in the Lord on Wednesday, July 23rd, 2003, at the Toronto Western Hospital, in his 92nd year of life, having dedicated 65 years of his life as a priest and 55 as a bishop. The Pontifical Funeral Liturgy will be celebrated on Saturday, July 26, 2003 at 10:00 a.m., at the Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Holy Dormition, 3625 Cawthra Road, Mississauga, by His Beatitude Patriarch Lubomyr of Ukraine, assisted by bishops and clergy.
Source: Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Toronto and All Eastern Canada
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