On November 9, a literary and artistic evening "We Greet the Day of the Good News..." was held at Lesya Ukrainka Volyn State University, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the publication of the Bible in Ukrainian and the Day of Ukrainian Writing and Language. \nThe event was attended by teachers and students of the Institute of Arts of VSU, pupils of the Center for the Education of Youth and Young People at the spiritual seminary of the Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Kyiv Patriarchate, and artistic groups of the Center for Children's Creativity "Dyvo" (director Ivanna Horbachuk). \n \nReference:In 1903, the Bible in Ukrainian was printed in Vienna, translated by Panteleimon Kulish (1819–1897) in cooperation with Ivan Pului and Ivan Nechui-Levytskyi. \nTranslations of the Bible into Ukrainian have their own great, complex, sometimes very dramatic history. \nUntil the 15th century, Ukrainian Christians used handwritten copies of parts of the Bible, mainly the New Testament, in the Old Slavonic language, more or less understandable to a significant part of literate people of various Slavic peoples of Central, Southern and Eastern Europe. \nIn the 16th century, attempts were made to translate the Holy Scriptures from the original language into the Ukrainian vernacular. An example is the famous handwritten Peresopnytsia Gospel from Volyn of 1556-1561: a precious monument of the history of the Ukrainian language, calligraphy, and book miniature, on which presidents of Ukraine swear allegiance to the people in independent Ukraine. \nSignificant achievements in translations of the Bible into the Ukrainian literary language were attained in the 19th century. Despite the severe prohibitions imposed on the Ukrainian language by the occupation regimes, in the 19th century seven translations of the Bible, in its individual parts, were made into Ukrainian: by Markiyan Shashkevych, Pylyp Morachevskyi, Anton Kobylianskyi, Panteleimon Kulish, Ivan Pului, Ivan Nechui-Levytskyi, and Oleksandr Bachynskyi. \nBut only the tireless Panteleimon Kulish, in cooperation with Ivan Pului and Ivan Nechui-Levytskyi, managed to complete a full translation of the Bible into Ukrainian. This took almost half a century of work (due to extremely unfavorable conditions). The Ukrainian Bible in Kulish's translation appeared in print only in 1903, after the translator's repose. In biblical studies it is generally accepted to consider Kulish's translation the first complete translation of the Bible into Ukrainian. \nThe second complete translation of the Bible into Ukrainian was carried out in the 1920s-30s by Professor Ivan Ohiienko (Metropolitan Ilarion). This is the most widespread and commonly used translation of the Bible today. \nThe third complete translation of the Bible into Ukrainian was carried out under the auspices of the Greek Catholic Order of St. Basil the Great by translator Ivan Khomenko in the middle of the 20th century. Under the title "Holy Scripture" this translation was first printed in Rome in 1963 and has since been reprinted several times. \nAll three previous translations of the Bible into the Ukrainian literary language were made from early Christian biblical texts in Ancient Hebrew, Aramaic and Ancient Greek. \nThe fourth complete translation of the Bible was entrusted to be carried out by the priest, biblical scholar-theologian Dr. Rafail Turkoniak, who already at that time had experience working on biblical translations. \nThere were two reasons for starting a new, fourth translation of the Bible into Ukrainian: 1) the further development of world biblical studies in the second half of the 20th century, in particular, biblical textology and biblical archaeology; 2) the development of the Ukrainian language, the restoration of the norms of traditional Ukrainian orthography, the enrichment of vocabulary, the harmonization of Ukrainian biblical terminology with analogous terminologies of other peoples. \n