Public Figures Call Ukrainians to Unite to Build Moral Ukraine
On December 14, representatives of the initiative group “December 1” published a declaration showing solidarity with the ideas of the Address of the Traditional Churches (Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate, Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church) to the Ukrainian nation regarding the social situation in Ukraine.
The authors of the declaration think that all the strata of the Ukrainian society need to be revived. The public figures called Ukrainians to unite around seven principles including freedom and human dignity, superiority of the law and just justice, mutual responsibility of the authorities and society, and so on.
”The churches set for us an example of unity. We see this as a model of unification of the regions of Ukraine around moral values. And the presence and participation of Blessed Patriarch Lubomyr in our initiative group is a guarantee that none of our voices will be used by manipulating politicians in their interests and that this voice will sound as a public and not a political one,” said a member of the group, Vice Rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University, human rights campaigner, Myroslav Marynovych.
The initiative group “December 1,” which was created on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the referendum, includes Viacheslav Briukhovetskyi, Bohdan Havrylyshyn, Volodymyr Horbulin, Semen Gluzman, Cardinal Lubomyr (Husar), Ivan Dziuba, Myroslav Marynovych, Myroslav Popovych, Yevhen Sverstiuk, Vadym Skurativskyi, Ihor Yukhnovskyi.
According to Myroslav Marynovych, it is the moral challenges that unite Ukraine, for “people suffer from the inefficiency of the authorities in Luhansk and Lviv, In Kyiv and Simferopol. Therefore, the unification of people who believe that one can save the society through treatment of the human spirit is actually our goal,” concluded Myroslav Marynovych reported the press service of UCU.
