Charity Activity of Church and Religion Organizations during the Military Conflict in the East of Ukraine

Iryna Miakinchenko

doi:10.35433/history.11199

Abstract

Charity Activity of Church and Religion Organizations during the Military Conflict in the East of Ukraine

Highlights

Churches and religious organizations have initiated charitable activity in eastern Ukraine since spring 2014
The second AUCCRO appeal to the religious and governmental bodies of the Russian Federation, as well as to the World Council of Churches and Other Institutions appeared on January 22, 2019. It stated: “The All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations calls on you to do your utmost to make the process of release of those imprisoned for political reasons citizens of Ukraine possible, and make sure that all prisoners and hostages are released in the near future” (AUCCRO, 2019)
With the onset of the military fighting in eastern Ukraine, church and religion organizations, including those affiliated with the AUCCRO, as well as at the level of individual denominations, have declared a need for a peaceful settlement of the conflict

Summary

Introduction

Churches and religious organizations have initiated charitable activity in eastern Ukraine since spring 2014 They got in on the solution of a number of problems, first and foremost of internally displaced persons, ATO participants and their families, military and civilian prisoners’ release, who were detained in Donbass, annexed Crimea territories and the Russian Federation. In the July 9, 2014 communiqué of the AUCCRO meeting, they expressed solidarity with the victims of the conflict in Donbas and called for assistance to the victims in the East These appeals, as well as other calls of interdenominational unions, testify to the beginning of broad charitable activity of church and religion organizations in the east of Ukraine. “The All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations calls on you to do your utmost to make the process of release of those imprisoned for political reasons citizens of Ukraine possible, and make sure that all prisoners and hostages are released in the near future” (AUCCRO, 2019). On November 2, 2016, a circuit meeting of the AUCCRO was held in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, following which the «AUCCRO Appeal on Promoting Peace and Progress in Ukrainian Society» was adopted (AUCCRO, 2016)

Conclusions

Persons from

Forbidden to Involve Priests of the Moscow Patriarchate in Chaplain

Ask Their Church Leadership to Intercede for Ukrainian Political

Service of the United

Freed from Captivity due to the Efforts of the Ukrainian Orthodox