Ukrainian Parliament to Consider Issue of Repressions Against Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

A draft Resolution on granting the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church the status of a repressed Church has been submitted to the consideration of the Supreme Council of Ukraine on 8 September.

A draft resolution on granting the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church the status of a repressed church has been submitted to the consideration of the Supreme Council of Ukraine on September 8. Resolution 7104 was registered by deputies of Yulia Tymoshenko's Motherland faction, V. Derevlianyi and D. Shlemko.

The draft resolution will mainly be considered by the Committee on Culture and Spirituality.

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From 1946 to 1989, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) was the largest prohibited church in the world. However, the church was active in the underground during the whole period. Thousands of faithful and clergymen of the UGCC underwent persecutions and repressions.
During his visit to Ukraine, Pope John Paul II beatified 27 UGCC martyrs for the faith who suffered during that period.

The Institute of Church History of the Ukrainian Catholic University gathered hundreds of testimonies of witnesses of the mentioned events, their friends and family members as part of the Project "Oral History." All the materials testify that UGCC was cruelly persecuted by the authorities.