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AUCCRO begins visit to U. S. with prayer for Ukraine’s victory in UGCC church in Washington, DC

October 30, 2023, 20:08 103

On Sunday, October 29, a delegation of the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations headed by its chairman, Stanislav Nosov, visited a church of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Washington, DC. Archbishop and Metropolitan of Philadelphia Borys Gudziak presided over the Divine Liturgy, which was concelebrated by several members of the Ukrainian delegation, including Bishop Vitaliy Kryvytskyi, Ordinary of the Kyiv-Zhytomyr Eparchy of the RCC in Ukraine, and Fr. Oleksa Petriv, Head of the Department of External Relations of the UGCC in Ukraine, as reported on AUCCRO website.

AUCCRO begins visit to U. S. with prayer for Ukraine’s victory in UGCC church in Washington, DC

After the service, representatives of various denominations of Ukraine offered prayers and words of blessing for the victory of Ukraine, a just peace and proper retribution for Russian outrages, God’s protection for the defenders of Ukraine, medics, volunteers, and the entire nation.


In the Ukrainian church and later at a welcome dinner, the AUCCRO delegation met with influential representatives of the Ukrainian diaspora. The religious leaders paid particular attention to the harsh persecution, arbitrary imprisonment, and torture that the Russian authorities were inflicting on clergy and religious minority believers in the occupied territories of Ukraine.


The delegation of the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations, which arrived in Washington to share their testimonies of the suffering of the people of Ukraine from Russian aggression, consists of representatives of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Church of Christians of Evangelical Faith, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine, the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Evangelical Church, the Association of Jewish Religious Organizations, the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of Ukraine, and the Ukrainian Bible Association.

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