Ukrainian church leaders seek joint committee to devise ethics course

Published: 2005-07-07

KIEV, Ukraine (CNS) -- Christian leaders in Ukraine have asked government leaders to establish a joint church-education commission to help choose a curriculum for a Christian ethics course in public schools. The heads of four major Christian denominations in Ukraine wrote Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko and other government leaders to ask that the government establish a joint church-education commission to work out a syllabus for the course. Yushchenko has said he would ask the Ministry of Education to introduce such a course. The letter was signed by Cardinal Lubomyr Husar of Kiev, head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, and the heads of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate, Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kiev Patriarchate and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church.

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