18 Churches of Odesa Region Defend Greek Catholics

On Sunday, October 24, prayer services will be held in churches of Odesa and the Odesa region to intercede for the allocation of a land plot for the construction of a church building of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, reads a joint address to the mayor of Odesa and the head of the Odesa Regional Administration signed by the heads of 18 Christian churches of Odesa, reports most-odessa.info.

The address was signed by bishops, senior pastors, and leaders of the Roman Catholic Church, Armenian Apostolic Church, German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Ukraine, Church of Christians of the Evangelical Church, Association of Evangelical-Reformist Churches in Ukraine, Regional Association of Churches of Evangelical Christians Baptists, etc.

The letter reads in particular: “Our joint address to you was provoked by the atmosphere of unhealthy aggression artificially created in the city by certain circles with regard to the construction in Odesa of a church building of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. We, as brothers in Christ of Greek Catholics of Odesa cannot be indifferent to that. We, the heads and leaders of churches and religious associations of the city of Odesa, are aware that there are substantial differences in the creeds and church disciplines of our churches. These differences, however, cannot become a cause of persecution or discrimination of a particular religious community.”