Worcester StandardChurch leads mission to help orphansWorcester Standard(s) VOLUNTEERS from a church in Warndon Villages will jet out to the Ukraine on Saturday to continue their efforts to help build an orphanage to house youngsters living in desperate conditions. A group of seven people from Woodgreen Evangelical Church ...and more »

Heavenly voices lead to nearly 4000 decisions in UkraineDallas Baptist Standard"God gets all the credit, but we are so grateful that he chose to use each of us in this wonderful mission in Ukraine," Derrel Thompson, minister of music and education at Valley Grove Baptist Church in Stephenville, wrote on a blog about the trip.

Nadia Mak — RochesterPost-BulletinA memorial service will be held Wednesday, May 23, at 11 am at the United Methodist Church in Douglas, with Pastor Carolyn Westlake officiating. Nadia was born Oct. 10, 1923, in the village of Zaporoshe in the Ukraine. She grew up in the Ukraine and on ...

Wars and Peace. The third edition. Already on sale!The Day Weekly DigestThe project received the blessings of the Cardinal of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church of that time, Liubomyr (Huzar.) The foreword was written by editors-in-chief of The Day and Gazeta Wyborcza, Larysa Ivshyna and Adam Michnik.

European connection: Smithfield family has many ties to Ukraine, RussiaThe Herald Journal“It makes me wonder if we're just missing something about Russia or Ukraine,” Tyler said, “some special connection with our family.” Tyler was the first of Christy and David's sons to be called on a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...

Stories from the neighborhood, and the concentration campTonawanda NewsHowever they relate to God through the Ukrainian Catholic Church, the Church as neighborhood nerve center is well-defined. Of particular interest to some may be the history lesson imparted. Some know how the Soviet Union overran and absorbed Ukraine ...

As Dutch churches shut, sacred art finds new use abroadReutersAnother Catholic church slated to become a municipal library and theatre has donated pews, statues and crucifixes to a church in Lviv, Ukraine, that was used as a gas mask factory during the communist era. A Dutch Reformed church has donated a silver ...and more »

Ukraine accepts EU legal, medical expertsWGMEBRUSSELS (AP) -- Ukraine's Prime Minister Mykola Azarov says that the European Union can send experts to assess both the medical state of his jailed predecessor Yulia Tymoshenko and the legal process that led to her conviction and seven-year sentence.and more »

Rome to US Eastern Catholics: New Priests Should “Embrace Celibacy”…Patheos (blog)Then surely the Catholic seminaries of Ukraine must not be full? A vocation to both marriage and the priesthood is perfectly licit in the Eastern Churches. It is merely a sad historical fact that American Eastern Catholics have had to go to the “Old ...and more »

20-somethings go home to regroupThe Seattle TimesSumi and his wife will soon be moving to Ukraine with jobs through the Church of the Nazarene. His nephew, Mason Sumi, 9, greets him at the door. Joseph Sumi approaches the table to share a meal with his wife, Ree, right, brother, Matthew, and mother, ...and more »