Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate, Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus-Ukraine Filaret will pray for Ukraine while on a visit to the European Parliament.
The service will be held in a special prayer room at the European Parliament headquarters April 2, an UNIAN correspondent reports.
On the same day, Patriarch Filaret will attend two conferences: "The human cost of Russian aggression in Ukraine: Testimonies of abductions, torture and murder" and "Ukraine in times of independence: the Orthodox Kyiv Patriarchate and the challenges of a changing society."
Read alsoKyiv Patriarch seeks international protection for his Orthodox church in occupied DonbasThe next day, UOC-KP's Filaret will pay a visit to Ukrainian soldiers undergoing medical rehabilitation at the Queen Astrid military hospital, and also talk with representatives of the Ukrainian community in Belgium.
As UNIAN reported earlier, on April 17, at a meeting with the leaders of parliamentary factions, the president stated that he and the hierarchs of the UOC-KP and Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church decided to officially address Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I with a request to grant independence to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, and asked the parliament to support the appeal.
Read alsoConstantinople starts procedure of granting autocephaly to Ukrainian Orthodox Church – PoroshenkoOn April 19, the Verkhovna Rada adopted a resolution supporting the president's appeal to the Ecumenical Patriarch regarding the provision of a tomos on autocephaly of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.
