On the eve of 2022, at a meeting of the Spiritual Board of the All-Ukrainian Council, it was decided to call on all Christian Churches of Ukraine and believers to unite in daily prayers for peace and protection of our country from the escalation of military operations or war during the Christmas Days of January 7-14.
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"We call on all Christians and the church to pray intensely for:
- peace and prosperity
- preventing an enemy threat
- for protection from war.
We ask you to pray for these needs in churches, temples, and cathedrals.
Let's pray for this at home with our family, at work with friends and colleagues, because where you and the three of you are, there is the power of the Lord's prayer with them.
Now, more than ever, it is necessary that prayer for our country does not fade away day or night, because only the Lord can solve the challenges that our country faces now, so spread this call and build a prayerful defense of our homeland."
All-Ukrainian Council is an association of religious and public organizations, as well as all concerned citizens around the Christian path of development of the Ukrainian state.
The initiators of the creation of the Union "All-Ukrainian Council" were Evangelical Churches, well-known religious and public figures. The Spiritual Board of the "All-Ukrainian Council" includes senior bishop of the Ukrainian Church of Evangelical Christians Mykhailo Panochko, chairman of the All-Ukrainian Union of Evangelical Christian Baptist Churches Valeriy Antonyuk, senior bishop of the Ukrainian Free Church of Evangelical Christians Vasyl Raychynets, chairman of the Ukrainian Christian Church "New Generation" Andriy Tishchenko, Bishop of the Council of Independent Evangelical Churches of Ukraine Anatoliy Kalyuzhny and other leaders of religious organizations.
Oleksandr Turchynov is the coordinator of the "All-Ukrainian Council".