01.06.2007, [15:52] // Charitable activities //
Lviv – The pro-life group of the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) in western Ukrainian Lviv and students of Holy Spirit Seminary, supported by UCU’s Institute of Marriage and Family Life and encouraged by the Lviv City Board on Matters of Family, Youth, and Sports, are organizing an ecumenical event in defense of the life of unborn children, to be held at 3:00 p.m., 3 June 2007, in downtown Lviv.
According to Natalia Tsiupka, a second year student in UCU’s Faculty of Philosophy and Theology and a member of UCU’s pro-life group, faithful of various Protestant churches and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate have been invited to participate. The program will include an ecumenical prayer service for the unborn, a brief dramatic presentation and a concert of religious music given by Basilian and Redemptorist monks.
“Above all,” said Tsiupka, “we hope to unite in prayer for unborn children, to do this at the community level; certainly in our movement private prayers are said every day. We also want to turn society’s attention to this problem, to encourage it in this way to think about the value of each human life.”