the ICCPPC, who is well known human rights defender, represented position of the Catholic Pastoral Ministry about religious rights of prisoners at The Twelfth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, which took place in Salvador, Brazil, from 12 to 19 April 2010. In December 2009 the Commission of Kiev Archdiocese for penitentiary pastoral care was founded by decision of Lubomir Husar. The issues of the ministry in prison were as a subject of three sessions of the Synod of Bishops of the UGCC in 2010. The understanding and sensitivity of the Synod of Bishops of the UGCC concerning prison pastoral ministry is growing. The Sunday of the Prodigal Son has been appointed as a day of the Prison Pastoral Care. In summer of 2010 the registration of the 1-st Rehabilitation Center for women ex-prisoners started in Chernigiv suburb. The importance and value of pastoral care in penitentiary system is indisputable. Even if prison chaplaincy does not exist in Ukraine de jure, ministry of the Church in prison establishments of Ukraine became more possible de facto than we practically offer now! The number of well trained lay volunteers is not enough. Not all assigned pastors really respond to vocation for regular ministry in prison. Former Chief Representative of the ICCPPC-Europe Deacon Peter Echtermeyer did a lot for inspiration of Prison Pastoral. He traveled to Ukraine four times. The Board of the ICCPPC-Europe has gathered in January 2012 in Lviv (Western Ukraine) to analyze the development of the international cooperation in the region. Conference was headed by Msgr. Pawel Wojtas (Poland), vice-president of the ICCPPC and Fr. Marc Helfer (France), chief representative of the ICCPPC-Europe. On December 12, 2012, the Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Patriarch Sviatoslav (Shevchuk) and Alexander Lisitskov, the Head of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine (SPSU), Lieutenant-General of internal service, have signed an Agreement of cooperation. The Agreement is a reflection of cooperation according to the previous document signed by Husar in the year 2007. The text of the Agreement summarizes not only the structural changes that have occurred over the past 5 years, but also laid emphasis on pastoral care about staff of the SPSU and families of staff, students of educational the SPSU institutions, prisoners and persons detained. There is another fruit of modern presence of catholic chaplaincy in the Penitentiary System of Ukraine – the edition in December 2012