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June 23-27, 2001    
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Interreligious Meeting with Pope Discusses Freedom and Responsibility

Sunday evening, June 24th, Pope John Paul II met with representatives of the Pan-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations in the foyer of the Palace of the National Philharmonic of Kyiv.


25.06.2001 (10:27) // Religious Information Service of Ukraine

   The meeting was conducted in an informal style under the direction of His Beatitude Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, and ended with the presentation to the Pope of his own image embroidered with coral in the Ukrainian tradition.

  After greetings by Cardinal Husar and an address by the Holy Father, remarks were given by Cardinal Marian Jaworksi of the Roman Catholic Church, Metropolitan Filaret of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate, Metropolitan Mefodij of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, Hryhory Komendant of the Association of Evangelical Baptists, Chief Rabbi of Kyiv Yaakov Dov Bleich, and Mufti Tamin Achmed Mohammed Mutach of the Moslems of Ukraine.

  Following the meeting, the Pope visited one of two sites of 20th century horrors near Kyiv: Bykivnia, a pine forest with one of the largest mass graves of Stalinist totalitarianism in Ukraine. On Monday, June 25th, he will visit Babyn Yar, where the German occupying force conducted mass executions of the Jewish community in the fall of 1941.

  See full text of Cardinal Husar’s address.

  See full text of Pope’s address.

  See full text of Chief Rabbi of Kyiv Yaakov Dov Bleich address.

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