03.05, [12:53] // Press-releases // Taras_H
May 1, 2008, is the day in memory of victims of the Holocaust. Six million Jews, children, women, and men, perished only because they were Jewish. “The twentieth century, in addition to everything else, left after itself cases of mass extermination of one nation by another. They were done on the European continent and they were done on other lands. Today, on the day in memory of victims of the Holocaust, we wish to express our solidarity, because our nation also suffered much in the times of the ‘Holodomor’ [forced famine] and we understand what such a great tragedy means.” His Beatitude Lubomyr, Major Archbishop of Kyiv and Halych, shared his reflections on the occasion.
According to the words of the Head of the UGCC, it is disturbing that even today the desire to mock one another because of national or religious membership has not disappeared. “Throughout the whole world such events are repeated, which demonstrates that humanity is still spiritually ill in the desire to mock others, to vex others. This takes place in greater or lesser ways. It happens when we do not insure the observance of his rights to someone, it happens when we desecrate somebody's temples, cemeteries,” said His Beatitude Lubomyr.
In conclusion, the Head of the UGCC noted that our sincere desire is that, after such tragic pages of the past, people still have learned to respect each other.
Information Department of the UGCC
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