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Kharkiv–Tbilisi Car Race Blessed

24.05.2005, [00:26] // Foreign relations //

Kharkiv – A car race from Ukraine to Georgia started in eastern Ukrainian Kharkiv on 22 May 2005 as part of the Year of Georgia in Ukraine. The race should prove the solidarity of the ancient Christian peoples of Ukraine and Georgia, and the support Ukrainians have for the independent policies of the Georgian government. This was reported by the press center of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) Consistory of the Eparchy of Kharkiv and Poltava.

The cars set out on their way from Kharkiv’s central square, symbolically named Liberty Square. The race was blessed, and the cars were consecrated by Protopriest Vitalii Zubak, chancellor of the Eparchy of Kharkiv and Poltava of the UAOC, and Ukrainian Greek Catholic Father Onufrii Ripetskyi, superior of the Basilian monastery in the village of Pokotylivka

Source: press center of the UAOC Consistory of the Eparchy of Kharkiv and Poltava