Interfaith prayer for peace held simultaniously in Kyiv and Gniezno

12.09.2025, 13:15

On September 11, an interfaith prayer event titled “Prayer for Peace” was held, with the participation of representatives from the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations (UCCRO). The event brought together two significant locations: St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, and the Primatial Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Gniezno, Poland. The prayer took place simultaneously in both countries and was linked through teleconference.

This was reported by the UCCRO website.

During the prayer event, Maronite Bishop Mounir Khairallah from Lebanon spoke about the foundations of a just peace from God.

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Bishop Vitaliy Kryvytskyi of the Roman Catholic Church read an appeal from the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations to the Polish clergy. Following this, religious leaders from Ukraine and Poland, along with laypeople, offered prayers and made appeals for an end to the war and for the establishment of a just and lasting peace for Ukraine and other countries in conflict. At the conclusion of the prayer service, everyone recited the Lord's Prayer together.

The Ukrainian participants in the Polish-Ukrainian prayer event "Prayer for Peace" included: Bishop Vitaliy Kryvytskyi of Kyiv-Zhytomyr of the Roman Catholic Church; Metropolitan Yevstratiy (Zoria) of Bila Tserkva of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine; Bishop Markos Oganesyan, head of the Ukrainian Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church; Mitred Protopriest Oleksa Petriv of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church; Pastor Volodymyr Kondor, Executive Secretary of the All-Ukrainian Union of Churches of Evangelical Christian Baptists; Pastor Ihor Shemigon of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ukraine; and Ayder Rustemov, the Supreme Mufti of Crimea.