An advocacy visit of the Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations to Brazil has begun. Meetings are scheduled in the largest cities of Brazil - São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, Curitiba etc.
Source: UCCRO
Within the framework of the program, the Ukrainian delegation will meet with primates, bishops, pastors, priests of the country's leading churches, as well as governors, government officials, and politicians.
The main goal of the visit is to inform the people of Brazil about Russia's horrific war against Ukraine, about numerous crimes against humanity, about persecution, torture, and murder of pastors and priests in the temporarily occupied territories. The world needs to know the truth about the destruction of Ukraine as a country, about the pain and suffering of Ukrainians from the terror that the enemy is inflicting on the civilian population of Ukraine every day.
List of the UCCRO delegation:
1. Bishop Oleksandr Babiychuk – Ukrainian Church of the Christians of Evangelical Faith (Pentecostal Church in Ukraine), General Secretary of the Ukrainian Bible Society;
2. Rev. Oleksandr Pavenko - Ukrainian Church of the Christians of Evangelical Faith, Pastor of the Pentecostal Church;
3. Bishop Oleksandr Yazlovetskiy - Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine, Titular bishop of Tulana and auxiliary of the Diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr of the Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine;
4. Rev. Stanislav Nosov- Ukrainian Union Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, President of the Ukrainian Union Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church;
5. Rev. Igor Bandura - All-Ukrainian Union of Christian Baptist Evangelical Churches, Deputy chairman of the All-Ukrainian Union of Christian Baptist Evangelical Churches ;
6. Priest Rostyslav Vorobii - Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Secretary of the Synodal Commission on Inter-Christian relations;
7. Dr. Ivan Rusyn - Ukrainian Evangelical Church, Deputy Senior Bishop of the Ukrainian Evangelical Church, President of Ukrainian Evangelical Theological Seminary;
8. Oleksandr Zaiets - Institute for Religious Freedom (NGO), Head of the board;
9. Rev. Anatoliy Raychynets - Ukrainian Bible Society, Deputy General Secretary of the Ukrainian Bible Society, Pastor of the Ukrainian Evangelical Church.