Lvov, 4 January 2012

To the United Nations administration

EU Commissioners

U.S. President and Congress

The Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate is making this appeal to You in the matter of intensifying persecution of Christians which takes place mostly in Islamic countries.

We ask You to use Your political power and international influence to protect the right to life as well as religious freedom of Christians in countries with the vast majority of Islamic population.

In these countries, systematic persecution for the Christian faith is taking place, comprised of physical torture and killing of Christians, destruction of their churches, hospitals, schools, private property… This tendency is growing more and more intense and is the cause of forced emigration and violent deaths of thousands of Christians.

Lvov, 4 January 2012

President of Ukraine V. Yanukovych

Government representatives

Dear Mr President, dear members of the Ukrainian government,

the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate appealed to the UN administration, EU Commissioners, the U.S. President and the Congress to guarantee equal treatment of Christians and Muslims in the EU, USA and Muslim countries. Christians are killed in masses on Muslim territories, they are expelled from their homes (see Iraq, Iran); Pakistan even imposes death penalty for the faith in Jesus Christ or possession of the Bible. At Christmas (25 December 2011), several murderous attacks against Christians took place in Nigeria, bombs exploded in six churches. In early November, 150 Christians were murdered in cold blood right in the street because they refused to renounce the faith in Jesus Christ, the Son of God. On 8 March 2010, a Christian village in Nigeria was attacked at three o’clock at night and all its inhabitants – including babies – were brutally killed. On 3 January 2012, Muslims in Nigeria issued an ultimatum to the Christians living in the north of the country to leave their homes within three days or they will perpetrate their genocide. Western “human rights advocates” keep silent.

“Therefore, as through one man’s offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man’s righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life.” (NKJ)

(8-22 Jan 2012)

As a result of the sin of Adam, all his descendants are born condemned to death. No man can deliver himself from the power of death with his own strength. Dying, Jesus made satisfaction for us to God’s justice and triumphed over death. Therefore, the free gift resulting in justification of life comes to all who received Him.

Lvov, 9 December 2011

To Members of the Ukrainian Parliament

“On 6 December 2011, 15 MPs of different factions of the Ukrainian Parliament joined together for the purpose of promoting gender policy. It concerns the following Members of Parliament: Yuliya Kovalevska (Party of Regions), Olena Kondratyuk (Batkivshchyna), Iryna Herashchenko, joined by Olga Herasymyuk, Olga Bodnar, Elina Shyshkina, Olena Bondarenko, Ulyana Mostypan, Lesya Orobets, Zoya Shyshkina, Iryna Berezhna, Iryna Horina and three men Mykola Tomenko, Boris Tarasyuk, Alexis Plotnikov.” So much for the information from UNIAN.

The Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate hereby appeals to the President, Government, MPs, members of Regional and District State Administrations, teachers, parents, all Christians and all people of good will: Save children from moral and physical destruction! Wake up, do not be indifferent! Those who destroy the family and nation morally, spiritually and physically are extremely cunning and active at this time. You should found civic organizations for the protection of parents and children, write letters to the President, government and MPs. At least once a month organize demonstrations in front of the local State Administrations for the purpose of saving children from the juvenile justice system and homosexualism. Demand that the process of legislative amendments forced upon Ukraine by the West should be stopped. These amendments, in essence, destroy all moral values and violate the Constitution of Ukraine....

Lvov, 6 December 2011

Representatives of the United Nations

New York, USA

Dear representatives of the United Nations,

this letter is addressed to You by the Patriarch and Bishops of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate. We have already appealed to the UN several times to stop using their political influence for promotion of antihuman “standards” which destroy human nature, moral values and sound mind. This organization, which should serve the good of the nations, now appears to be an instrument of ideological power implementing the policy of reduction of population.

How are they doing it? Who is doing it? They insidiously bind the individual states to implementation of conventions which at first glance seem to be democratic and even pretend to protect human rights. In reality, however, they do the exact opposite – they violate human rights and promote the ideology of death.

“For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one,

much more those who receive abundance of grace

and of the gift of righteousness will reign

in life through the One, Jesus Christ.”

(Rom 5:17 NKJ)

Lvov (Ukraine), 19 December 2011

The Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate hereby officially appeals to You as apostate Pope to make the following steps in token of true repentance:

1) to ensure the election of a true Catholic Pope;

2) to resign from office.

Christmas 2011

Dear Catholic and Christian faithful,

Christmas brings us more deeply into the mystery of God being born as a defenceless child in a humble stable in Bethlehem. He came into the world as a defenceless child to show us the way of salvation and to take on Himself our sins and iniquities. He paid for our sins on the cross on Golgotha and conquered the devil who held the human race in bondage. His glorious Resurrection proved that His Gospel is the true way and that He is truly the Only Begotten Son of God and the only Saviour of mankind.

Lvov (Ukraine), 12 December 2011

To Christians in the USA

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

at Christmas we call to mind that God who created the whole universe became man. He humbled Himself to atone the guilt of men and deliver them from the slavery of sin. By His death on the cross He paid for our sins and opened us the way into eternal glory. The Only Begotten Son of God, Jesus Christ, was born in a Bethlehem manger. However, if Christ were born a thousand times and yet were not born in your soul, there would be no salvation for you. Jesus is born even today – in everyone who opens the door of his heart to Him through true repentance. He says: “Unless you repent, you will all perish.” (Lk 13:3)

Lvov, 14 December 2011

President of Ukraine

Viktor Yanukovych

Dear Mr President,

we, Secretaries of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate, hereby appeal to You to stop religious discrimination which is aimed at elimination of the Ukrainian orthodox Greek-Catholic Church (UOGCC). There is a plot devised by the UGCC leadership to deport our Patriarch Elijah from Ukraine.

Previous cases of religious discrimination at the request of the UGCC:

– In 2009, on the orders of Mr Derzhko, an employee of Lvov Regional State Administration, the police were exploited for forcible abduction of a member of a women’s religious order in Bryukhovychi.

– In 2010, a church in Chortkiv, which had been built by members of the orthodox Catholic Church, was seized illegally.

Lvov (Ukraine), 15 December 2011

President of Ukraine V. Yanukovych

Prime Minister of Ukraine M. Azarov

Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine

Minister of Foreign Affairs

Members of the Parliament of Ukraine

The Ukrainian nation in recent years has undergone great and critical changes. This is evidenced by a deep moral, spiritual and economic crisis. It is reflected in all spheres of life of the Ukrainian nation. One of the proofs is demographic statistics which clearly show that the Ukrainian nation is dying out. We have to state with sadness that political solutions that are being made deepen this crisis even more. These solutions are often made by people who pursue their own economic interests and do not pay heed to ordinary citizens. We have in mind implementation of gender policy that leads to the spread of homosexual perversion and of the AIDS disease among youth.

Lvov (Ukraine), 14 December 2011

Dear Sir,

we send You copies of our letters to the President of Ukraine. In the letters we mentioned in several points the specific cases of discrimination against our religious minority – Ukrainian orthodox Greek-Catholic Church (UOGCC). Discrimination is perpetrated by the Ministry of Culture (Mr Bohutskyi) on the orders of the UGCC hierarchy. Unless You respond to this blatant religious discrimination, Your mission, in fact, has nothing to do with human rights. It will be evidence that You have come to Ukraine just to one-sidedly advocate the rights of gays, lesbians and transsexuals (LGBTs) and hence to destroy the moral and spiritual values of the Ukrainian nation.

Lvov (Ukraine), 14 December 2011

To Participants of the Ukraine-EU Summit

Dear participants of the Ukraine-EU summit,

the Ukraine-EU summit is to take place in Kiev on 19 December 2011. The Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate represents the Christian and spiritual values that form the foundation of European as well as Ukrainian society. These values are nowadays being cunningly eliminated through the destructive effects of so-called euro standards that promote homosexualism as their priority. The result of privileging homosexualism is destruction of spiritual and moral values of the nation. Integration of Ukraine into the EU means loss of independence and traditional values. Demoralization and demonization of children through sexual education, and disintegration of society through gender ideology, homosexuality, juvenile justice and euthanasia leads to moral, spiritual and physical genocide of Ukraine.