Authorities call UCCRO to participate in European transformation of Ukraine
A meeting with representatives of the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches. Photo: Ruslan Stefanchuk's Facebook page
Ruslan Stefanchuk, First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine said at the meeting with representatives of the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations that Churches should play an important role in the transformation of Ukraine as a European democratic state. Stefanchuk wrote about this on his Facebook page.
The website of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine posted information on the details of the meeting.
“Churches can and should play an important role in shaping the cultural and educational component of Ukraine’s Transformation Strategy. Their successes and achievements in the field of fulfilling their own fundamental tasks are now an obvious and indisputable fact,” Ruslan Stefanchuk said at the meeting.
The meeting was attended by the head of the UGCC Sviatoslav Shevchuk, representative of the OCU Ivan (Yevstratiy) Zoria, President of the All-Ukrainian Union of Churches of Christians of Evangelical Faith-Pentecostals Mykhailo Panochko, Head of the Department for External Relations of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Alexei Petriv, as well as representative of the National Forum "Transformation of Ukraine" Mikhail Khariy. Representatives of the UOC did not take part in the meeting.
The meeting participants agreed on further joint steps in the European transformation of Ukraine.
As the UOJ previously reported, the AUCCRO and the defenders of "eternal values" from VP discussed the law on cannabis.
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