At the tenth meeting of the Public Council on Cooperation with Religious Organizations, it was decided to continue taking measures to commemorate the victims of the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine, the press service of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has reported.
“The Public Council on cooperation with religious organizations will contribute to the memory of the victims of the Holodomor of 1932-1933, the release of Ukrainian political prisoners and support the development of the military chaplaincy,” the ministry said on February 12.
The Council supported the initiative of Secretary of the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), Bohdan Dzyurakh, to hold a rally to provide symbolic assistance to the countries of Africa and Asia, which suffer most from hunger. This was reported by the press service of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.
“Having survived the tragedy of the deliberate destruction of the Ukrainian peasantry, when the totalitarian regime imposed on the world the suppression of the facts of mass destruction by famine, Ukraine honors the memory of the victims of the Holodomor, rendering assistance to the population of other countries suffering from hunger,” the message says.
Also, the council members will take further measures that would facilitate the liberation of Ukrainian citizens illegally kept by the Russian authorities in the Russian Federation and Crimea, as well as bringing to the international community the facts of persecution of believers in certain regions of Donetsk and Luhansk regions that are temporarily uncontrolled by the Ukrainian authorities.
In addition, the Foreign Ministry expressed support to the project of UGCC represented by Liubomyr Yavorsky on the development of military chaplaincy in Ukraine and readiness to contribute to the legislative regulation of the chaplain ministry.
