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Pope Greets Ukrainians On 10th Anniversary of Independence
In a greeting addressed to the president and people of Ukraine, His Holiness Pope John Paul II writes: “I am happy to be addressing your highly esteemed person, to pass on to you and all your fellow citizens the warmest wishes. Recalling with pleasure my recent visit to your country, I keep in my heart my meetings with the Ukrainian people, when I shared in their past sufferings and at the same time in their hopes for the future.”
23.08.2001 (16:32) // Religious Information Service of Ukraine
Source: www.ukrop.com (in Ukrainian)
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Wishing for a strengthening of national unity and harmony to aid spiritual and material improvement, the pope invoked the Lord’s blessing on the whole Ukrainian nation.
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