UGCC to Collects Funds for ‘Easter Baskets for Prisoners’

The UGCC is asking people of good will to join the campaign “Easter Baskets for Prisoners.”

The UGCC is asking people of good will to join the campaign “Easter Baskets for Prisoners.” “Every Easter priests and volunteers bring prisoners gifts that were blessed. We encourage people to assist in the purchase of Easter bread for 795 prisoners,” Father Kostiantyn Panteley, coordinator of prison chaplaincy in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, wrote on his Facebook page, the UGCC Information Department reports.

According to Father Kostiantyn, the collection, which is being carried out in Kyiv, is for minors, sick prisoners, and women in prisons and penal colonies.

Donations can be made by transferring funds to the Pryvatbank account 4149437825326786. One can also leave money in a special collection box in the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection.

Father Kostiantyn promises to provide a report on the campaign “Easter Baskets for Prisoners” during Bright Week.

For more information on how to get involved in other eparchial centers to help prisoners in Ukraine, please contact Father Kostiantyn at https://www.facebook.com/dushpastyrstvo, e-mail:p anteley@ukr.net, mobile: (098) 422 92 21.