Heads of Christian Churches of Ukraine Address Hanna Yudkivska
KYIV – Heads of the Christian Churches of Ukraine forwarded greeting addresses to Hanna Yudkivska, who is to enter the post of the judge of the European Human Rights Court, reports the Institute of Religious Freedom.
“Let the Wisdom of God and prudence accompany you at all times in your important activity in the post of the judge of the European Court on Human Rights,” says the address.
The heads of the churches expressed a number of wishes: “We hope that your work will significantly contribute to the establishment of the law, order, justice, and respect for human rights and the cause to observe in Ukraine and other European countries the freedom of thought, worship, and confession guaranteed by Articles 9 and 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights.”
The heads of the Ukrainian Churches stressed the importance of spirituality and the religious component in the development of the state in view of the decision of the European Court regarding the prohibition of religious symbols in the Italian schools.
“As we know you as a person not indifferent to the problems of developing spirituality and establishing high morality in the society, we hope that your work in the court will allow other judges as well to see the importance of spirituality and the religious component in the development of the state, especially if it constitutes the old national heritage of a country,” noted the hierarchs.
The address was sent by the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Volodymyr (Sabodan); Supreme Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Patriarch Lubomyr (Husar); Bishop Markian Trofymiak of the Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine; Senior Bishop of the Church of Christians of Evangelical Faith, Mykhailo Panochko; head of the All-Ukrainian Union of Churches of Evangelical Christians Baptists, Viacheslav Nesteruk; Senior Bishop of the Ukrainian Christian Evangelical Church, Leonid Padun; Bishop Viacheslav Horpynchuk of the Ukrainian Lutheran Church; and President of the Brotherhood of Independent Churches and Missions of Evangelical Christians Baptists, Serhii Debelynskyi.
