The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Appealed to the President of Ukraine to Stop Interdenominational Enmity

The meeting of the primate of Ukrainian Greek Catholics will be devoted to an address of the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church to President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine concerning a statement by the press service of the Odesa eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow patriarchate).

The official address of the press service of the Odesa eparchy was spread on September 1 with the blessing of the archbishop of Odesa and Izmail Agafangel (Savvin). In it the Odesa branch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church called upon the authorities not to allow construction of a Greek Catholic church in the city.

During the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church held from September 2 to 9, the highest hierarchs of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church who came to Lviv from across Ukraine and also the countries of Europe, North and South Americas, and Australia, passed an address to the President of Ukraine in which they appealed to Viktor Yanukovych to disallow the provocation of religious enmity in Ukraine, interdenominational intolerance, and limitation of citizens' constitutional rights upon signs of religious beliefs.