The Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU) website reports today (September 11, 2010) that the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church has appealed to the president of Ukraine to stop interdenominational enmity by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow patriarchate.
The enmity relates to the Odesa eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church which -- in a statement to the press on September 1, 2010 -- called upon the authorities not to allow construction of a Greek Catholic Church in Odesa.
The Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church -- in meetings held from September 2 to 9 -- passed an address to Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, in which they appealed to him to disallow the provocation of religious enmity in Ukraine, interdenominational intolerance, and limitation of citizens' constitutional rights upon signs of religious beliefs.
The Christian Church in Ukraine is divided into three major branches: the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow patriarchate, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kiev patriarchate, and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, which comes under the Pope in Rome.
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