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Open letter to Thomas Hammarberg, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights

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.

Lvov, Ukraine, 1 December 2011

Heads of the CoE Member States

Dear representatives of European nations,

the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate turns to You in the most serious question. The life of Europe is threatened by the ideology of death which is being incorporated by the current modification of laws.

These days, shocking news have been published that the Royal Dutch Medical Association released new guidelines for interpreting the 2002 Euthanasia Act that now includes “mental and psychosocial ailments” such as “loss of function, loneliness and loss of autonomy” as acceptable criteria for euthanasia. The guidelines even allow doctors to connect a patient’s lack of “social skills, financial resources and a social network” to “unbearable and lasting suffering,” opening the door to legal assisted death based on “psychosocial” factors, this now being a more preferable criterion than terminal illness. The guidelines also state that the “concept of suffering” is “broader” than its “interpretation and application by many physicians today.” This new absurd interpretation of suffering also includes “disorders affecting vision, hearing and mobility, falls, confinement to bed, fatigue, exhaustion and loss of fitness”. When the patient subjectively perceives the suffering as interminable and his existence as meaningless, and he may not even be in danger of death but simply wants to avoid suffering, the law allows the physician to kill such person.

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. This deportation has been planned by the UGCC for at least six months. It is apparent lawlessness and political corruption on the part of the UGCC leadership which uses state structures for its purposes. The UGCC leadership has disclosed its discriminatory, deportation and elimination purposes several times in the mass media.

Lviv, 15 December 2011

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Demonstration against deportation of Patriarch Elijah, Lviv 15 December 2011

Text on the placard:

Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church through Visa Department wants to deport Patriarch Elijah

Lvov, 30 November 2011

Members of Regional Councils of Ukraine

Dear members of the Regional Councils,

at the Regional State Administrations and District State Administrations, centres of gender equality were established to promote gender policy. What is hidden behind gender policy?

The Massachusetts (USA) legislature has passed a bill on “gender identity”. A school or other business would be violating the law if it rejected an applicant because he or she was a crossdresser, i.e. dresses in clothes appropriate to the opposite sex. Headteacher or a manager of a business enterprise who violate the non-discrimination rules face up to a $2,500 fine and a year in prison. If a mentally ill pervert breaks into the ladies’ room and the public convenience employee prevents him from provoking an immoral incident, the employee will be sentenced to one year in prison. Obviously, if such employee, after being released from prison, commits such “violation” again, he will be sentenced as a recidivist to several years in prison like the heaviest criminal or murderer. That is really the loss of reason, enactment of perversion and demonic possession! It would be logical, fair and for the good of society to impose a fine of $ 2,500 on a crossdresser or to sentence him to one year in prison, and not to treat in such way defenders of morality.

Lvov (Ukraine), 30 November 2011

V. Yanukovych

President of Ukraine

Dear Mr President,

during the legislative process in the Parliament concerning Act No. 2450 there now appears yet another draft law “On Freedom of Peaceful Assembly” through the LGBT lobby. Its authors are pressurizing You as the President to sign and submit it to the Parliament for approval. This new draft law, as admitted by the Venice Commission, contains several points that may have ambiguous interpretation.

What actually is the purpose of this law? It practically seeks to gain approval of gay-pride parades without any restriction or control, which, however, is against the Constitution of Ukraine.

Lvov (Ukraine), 3 December 2011

President of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Government

Dear Mr President, dear Members of the Government,

construction of the mosque in Kiev has entered its final stage. The mosque has a minaret, prayer hall and educational centre. It has a capacity of 3,000 people. The foundation stone of the mosque was laid in 1991. At the end of 2004, Kievan City State Administration endorsed a resolution concerning additional allotment of land and building permits for the entire Islamic complex.

In the past, the heroes of the Ukrainian history – Cossacks – defended their Orthodox faith not only against the occupation policy of Polish Catholicism but above all against the incursions of the Tartars and the Turkish sultan. Today the capital of Ukraine has a massive centre of Islam in token of tolerance towards religious minorities. But we ask what tolerance do the Muslim countries show towards the religious minorities of Christians there?

Word of life – Rom 5:16 (NKJ)

“And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned.

For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation,

but the free gift which came from many offenses resulted in justification.”

(11-25 Dec 2011)

The judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation…

If you commit one sin only, it merits God’s condemnation. Sin is a manifestation of rebellion against God and must be punished, because God is a just judge. But at the same time God is merciful. His mercy is poured out on those who receive God’s gift of justification through faith in Christ. However, from our sinful root proceed new and new sins. Death of the Lord Jesus does not justify us from one sin only, but through faith it justifies us from all our sins.

Lvov, 21 November 2011

Mykhailo Dmytrovych Kostyuk

Head of the Lvov Regional State Administration (LRSA)

Deputies of LRSA

Dear Mr Kostyuk,

Dear deputies of LRSA,

we, Bishops of the Ukrainian orthodox Greek-Catholic Church (UOGCC), are turning to You in the matter of “Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence”. On 7 November 2011, this Convention was signed by the Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs. Please, appeal to the Government of Ukraine to abolish bindingness of this convention and to impose a ban on its promotion in education, culture and mass media.

Lvov, 13 November 2011

To the leadership of the UGCC

In his speech during a web-conference, Head of the UGCC S. Shevchuk condemned homosexuality whereby he provided an alibi for himself. He is well aware what legacy was left by Husar who had already made a breakthrough in the Church opinion on this matter by his approval of homosexualism. Husar then also hypocritically signed a declaration of the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches against homosexualism as an alibi; however, it no longer had any practical impact.

Lvov, 13 November 2011

S. Shevchuk, “Patriarch” of the UGCC

At the end of 2011, UGCC is going to organize solemn religious ceremonies of establishment of metropolises in Lvov, Ivano-Frankovsk and Ternopol. It is a preparation for the solemn establishment of the UGCC Patriarchate.

UGCC Patriarchate could be recognized by the Vatican. Unfortunately, as from 1 May 2011 the Vatican is under God’s anathema and the Church has found herself in a sedes vacantis state, which means that all acts of the apostate Pope are null and void (see Bull of Paul IV “Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio” /1559/).

Lvov (Ukraine), 9 November 2011

In 1986, Pope John Paul II organized the first syncretistic meeting in Assisi. At that time, although it was not available to the public, much of the clergy was in opposition because they disagreed with the heretical step of the Pope. The event was deliberately explained to the public as an effort towards peace and no one could say that it was actually destruction of the Catholic faith. The year 1986 witnessed a breakthrough – demonism infiltrated the Church, whereafter every year the process of a change of the thinking in the Church went on through organization of other syncretistic meetings. At the same time, in the field of theology, the authority of the Scripture was degraded through historical-critical theology which called into question its Divine inspiration. Meanwhile, the process of questioning the Divinity of Christ and of all the fundamental truths of the faith proceeded.

Lvov (Ukraine), 23 November 2011

Alexander Lukashenko

President of Belarus

Dear Mr President,

You have applied recently to the Vatican for moral support against unfair sanctions from the EU. However, it is necessary to know in what spiritual state the Vatican is now.

On 1 May 2011, Pope Benedict XVI beatified an apostate Pope, John Paul II. He thus elevated the spirit of Assisi – the spirit of antichrist – to the altar of Church. For that reason he fell under God’s punishment of anathema – excommunication from the Church – in accordance with Gal 1:8-9. All who are in unity with the apostate Pope fall under a curse. To be saved from God’s curse, Belarus needs to officially break diplomatic relations with the Vatican.

Lvov (Ukraine), 23 November 2011

Msgr. Tarcisio Bertone

Vatican Secretary of State

Monsignor,

we hereby inform You that our Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate applied to the representatives of Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan for cancellation of diplomatic relations with the Vatican. The reason was that the Vatican had betrayed moral and spiritual values and through heresies and the spirit of Assisi – the spirit of antichrist – brings down a curse upon all nations that are in whatever unity with it.