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Jews in Dnipropetrovsk Lay Foundation of Holocaust Museum31.10.2003, [21:17] // Jewish Communities //
Dnipropetrovsk -- The Jewish scholarly educational center “Tkuma” in eastern Ukrainian Dnipropetrovsk with the support of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee laid the cornerstone for a Holocaust museum on 29 October 2003.
Crimean Muslims Refute Communist Leader’s Accusations of Al-Qaida Ties
31.10.2003, [21:16] // Muslims //
Crimea -- On 28 October 2003, “Arraid,” the Ukrainian Muslim Interregional Association of Civic Organizations, refuted the accusation by Crimean Communist leader Leonid Hrach of financial connection between Crimean Muslims and Al-Qaida terrorists.
St. Andrew’s Brotherhood Makes Pilgrimage to Zarvanytsia
31.10.2003, [21:15] // UAOC //
Zarvanytsia, Ternopil region -- On 25 and 26 October 2003, the All-Ukrainian Brotherhood of St. Andrew the Apostle made a pilgrimage to Zarvanytsia in western Ukraine’s Ternopil region, which is home to the Greek Catholic wonder-working icon of the Mother of God. Among those who took part in the pilgrimage were the Lviv and Buchach branches of the brotherhood, the faithful from Ternopil and representatives of the Kyivan and Kharkiv branches.
Autocephalous Orthodox Kharkiv/Poltava Consistory Goes to Supreme Court
31.10.2003, [21:13] // UAOC //
Kharkiv -- The consistory of the Kharkiv and Poltava eparchy of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) and St. Dmytro’s parish of the UAOC in eastern Ukrainian Kharkiv on 24 October 2003 filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court of Ukraine against the National Committee on Religious Matters of Ukraine for refusing to register the eparchy’s statutes.
Orthodox Brotherhood and Russian Movement Protest Nudity and English in Ads
28.10.2003, [22:48] // UOC-MP //
Kyiv -- On 28 October 2003, the St. Alexander Nevsky Orthodox Brotherhood of the Russian Movement in Ukraine and the Union of Orthodox Brotherhoods of Ukraine picketed the Kyivan municipal state administration, protesting advertisements and commercials containing indecent nudity. The protesters called pornography in advertising “the contempt of Christian morals.” In addition, they demanded that advertising that contains texts in English be banned, since it contradicts the law of Ukraine “On Advertising.”
Polish-Ukrainian Reconciliation Chapter Gives Awards in Lviv28.10.2003, [22:46] // news //
Lviv -- The third awards ceremony of the Church and Civil Chapter of Reconciliation was held in western Ukrainian Lviv on 25 October 2003. Every year, the Chapter awards prominent activists who make significant contributions towards mutual understanding between Poland and Ukraine.
Lutherans Open Prenatal Medical Center in Kyiv28.10.2003, [22:45] // Lutheran Churches //
Kyiv -- The Lutheran community opened a prenatal medical center in the Darnytsia neighborhood hospital in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, on 23 October 2003. Nicholas and Kerry Laper, directors of “Gift of Life” international charitable foundation, Svitlana Leshchenko, the center consultant, and Bishop Vyacheslav Horpynchuk of the Ukrainian Lutheran Church took part in the consecration and opening ceremony.
Radio Channel Collects Money for Church to Honor Shevchenko
24.10.2003, [20:31] // Charitable activities //
A marathon held under the slogan “Let’s Build a Church for the Kobzar” by the First National Radio Channel has collected 39 thousand hryvnias (about 1,600 US dollars) for the construction of a church near the Chernecha Mount in Kanev, where Taras Shevchenko, Ukraine’s greatest writer and painter, is buried. This news was reported by the newspaper “Antenna” on 23 October 2003.
Interreligious Group Works on Church-State Concept
24.10.2003, [20:29] // Church-state relations //
Kyiv-- A working group consisting of representatives of the main religions in Ukraine discussed the concept of church-state relations in the Ukrainian Razumkov Center for Economic and Political Research on 22 October 2003. According to the participants of the meeting, the discussion was fruitful and they reached agreement on most issues. They identified medicine, and education and the army as the main spheres of church-state contact.
Orthodox (UOC-MP) Metropolitan Volodymyr Visits Jerusalem24.10.2003, [20:27] // UOC-MP //
Metropolitan Volodymyr (Sabodan), head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), began a pilgrimage to Jerusalem on 22 October 2003. On that and the following day he visited numerous churches and met with local Orthodox hierarchs.
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