www.ukrweekly.com INSIDE: Our year-end issue, "7989: A LOOK BACK." Ukrainian Week v Vol. LVII No. 53 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31,1989 50 cents 30,000 in Kiev Catholic congregations continue to register in Ukraine many formerly Russian Orthodox and Catholic Churches. match in support Russian Orthodox Church, churches are already functioning as In Rome, Cardinal Myroslav Ivan Vatican officials to meet Ukrainian Catholic in anticipation of Lubachivsky, head of the Ukrainian of Rumanians registration. Catholic Church, issued the following ROME — The number of parishes in statement. In related news, Agence France MOSCOW — Thirty thousand Ukraine which are currently func­ Presse reported on December 27 that *** people demonstrated in Kiev, capital of tioning as Ukrainian Catholic, the the Russian Orthodox Church is to Ukraine, on Sunday, December 24, in number of congregations currently negotiate with the Vatican next month I have said before publicly that the support of the Rumanian people's without churches which are awaiting over what the ROC described as "oc­ faithful of the Ukrainian Catholic struggle for freedom, reported Agence registration, and the number of Russian cupation" of its churches by Uniates, or Church in Ukraine have not used France Presse, citing sources in Mos­ Orthodox nrtests which have joined the Ukrainian Catholics. violence in any form against Russian cow. Ukrainian Catholic Church continue to Archbishop Kirill said that a Vatican Orthodox clergy and faithful in U- AFP noted that demonstrators grow. delegation will be in Moscow on Ja­ kraine. I have received this information marched through the streets of Kiev and Ukrainian Catholic Church officials nuary 14-17 to discuss the matter. He from correspondents from the interna­ observed a moment of silence for in Rome were told in a telephone also said that the ROC would be tional news media who have been victims of the bloodshed that followed conversation the evening of December . prepared to envisage the legalization of visiting Ukraine in the past weeks and the overthrow of Nicolae Ceausescu. 21 that over 300 churches are currently the Uniate Church, "despite the violent from our hierarchy, clergy and faithful Anatoliy Dotsenko of the Ukrainian functioning as Ukrainian Catholic, action" of the Uniates. in Ukraine. The fact that no violence is Helsinki Union in Moscow said that a 600 to 6S0 congregations have register­ being used has also been reported message of support was sent by the ed with Soviet officials for recognition Lubachivsky responds several times on Soviet television and demonstrators to the new provisional and over 200 formerly Russian Ortho­ has been supported by the mayor of government in Rumania. dox priests have asked to become On December 19 Archbishop Kirill of L.viv, Bohdan. JCotyk« J?jJ[ringr%..$d^'On In related news, TASS reported that Ukrainian Catholic priests and have Srnolensk and Kaliningrad, the newiy this very issue, a Soviet judge in Lviv a train loaded with medical and emer­ been accepted by a Ukrainian Catholic appointed head of the Department of also found that no violence has oc­ gency supplies was waiting at the border bishop. External Church Relations for the curred. between the Moldavian SSR and Ru­ Following the recounting of these Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian I can only say that lam disheartened mania, and that a government commit­ statistics, the telephone line was cut and Orthodox Church (ROC), made public that my Russian Orthodox brothers in tee in Kishinev* capital of Moldavia, a second call to Ukraine could not be a declaration of the Holy Synod of the Christ persist in these unfounded ac­ had sent a message of support to the put through. Operators in Rome were Russian Orthodox Church and made cusations. I had hoped that a spirit of Rumanian National Salvation Com­ told by Soviet operators that the tele­ several statements about the Ukrainian Christian love would result from the mittee, which has announced an interim phone number was suddenly out of Catholic Church which were reported steps toward normalization of our government until free elections can be order, reported the Ukrainian Catholic by the Soviet news agency TASS. In the Church in Ukraine rather than the held. Press Bureau. declaration and in Archbishop Kirill's situation which is now resulting. ALP also reported that in Kiro- statement, allegations are repeated that The Council for Religious Affairs of I would like to make the following vohrad, Ukraine, the public had do­ Ukrainian Catholics are using violence Ukraine had announced on December points in response to the declaration of nated 120 liters of blood for the wound­ against Russian Orthodox faithful, are 1 that Eastern rite Catholics in the Holy Synod and in response to the ed in Rumania. Authorities were still forcing Russian Orthodox faithful to Ukraine had been granted the right to statements of His Excellency Arch­ trying to work out the logistics of sign registration requests, and are officially register their congregations. bishop Kirill of Smolensk and Kalinin­ shipping the blood to Rumania. causing enmity between the Orthodox Registration is increasing each day, and grad: 1. No violence has been perpetrated Ukrainian Canadians prepare to mark centennial by Ukrainian Catholic clergy or faithful in Ukraine in conjunction with the by Chris Guly will include a re-enactment of the in Pennsylvania two decades earlier. registration of formerly Russian Ortho­ landing of the first immigrants. It will A series of hall-of-fame dinners will dox parishes as Ukrainian Catholic. OTTAWA — Films, a summer coincide with a national meeting of be held across the country, with the 2. The re-registration of formerly musical troupe, art exhibits, a youth the Ukrainian Business and major event taking place in Toronto Russian Orthodox parishes as Ukrai­ exchange, family homecomings and Professional Federation of Canada. in March 1992. Throughout the year, nian Catholic is not an ejection of one even a forest are some of the events In September 1891, Ivan Pylypiw 100 living and 100 deceased group of parishioners from their church planned to mark the centennial of the and Wasyl Elyniak arrived in Halifax individuals will be honored for their by another group, but the declaration of first Ukrainian immigrants arriving to scout land suitable for immigrant contributions to the Ukrainian a single group of parishioners of their in Canada in 1991 to 1992. settlement. However, it's believed Canadian mosaic. true faith as Ukrainian Catholic. In an exclusive interview, that some Ukrainian fought in the The centennial commission will 3. Realizing one's right to religious Zorianna Hyworon, national co- War of 1812 and records indicate mark Canada's 125th birthday on freedom through registration with the chairperson of the Ukrainian that the first Ukrainian may have July 1, 1992, by holding regional state authorities does not constitute Canadian Centennial Commission, arrived in North America as early as celebrations from Sydney, Nova state interference in religious affairs. said that plans were introduced at the 1608 somewhere in Virginia. Scotia, to Victoria, British Rather, it is a means through which recent 16th triennial Ukrainian As an example of what the Columbia. The centenary year will believers can establish their religious Canadian Congress (UCC) held in commission means by having a officially close in October 1992 in preference and preserve their rights as Winnipeg on October 9. The year will Ukrainian connection, the Eleniak Winnipeg at the 17th triennial Soviet citizens under current few. feature "programs that are family has successfully traced 1,500 Ukrainian Canadian Congress. The 4. The Russian Orthodox Church community-based, have a grass­ people in its family tree. In 1988, first Ukrainian Canadian Youth has not decried the fact that the state roots focus and will involve every there were nearly 1 million people of Congress will be launched to has regulated religious activity until Canadian with a 'Ukrainian Ukrainian descent living in Canada coincide with the UCC meeting. now, when the Soviet government is connection." That means in-laws, — 59 percent of those living on the Based on their first meeting held in permitting Ukrainian Catholic congre­ people living in a predominantly prairies. December 1988, the 10-member gations to register. Ukrainian Canadian region of the The official launch of the commission hopes to focus on three 5. The Russian Orthodox Church country, friends, neighbors and co­ centennial year is scheduled for themes during the centennial: has taken advantage of the current laws workers." September 1991 in Edmonton, near commemorating and honoring the to register many formerly Ukrainian Hie centennial year will be Edna-Star, the site of the first past, celebrating the present and Catholic parishes as Russian Orthodox. launched on Canada Day, July 1, permanent settlement in June 1892. creating a vision for the future. Yet now, when the members of these 1991, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Similar settlements were established (Continued on page 3) parishes are choosing freely to return to (Continued on pag^ 2) Supreme Soviet member speaks Change in Polish view of nationalities by Dr. Roman Solchanyk of the national minority issue in Po­ about draft law on religion land may well raise expectations among MUNICH — The Ukrainian-lan­ Ukrainians, the largest ethnic minority by Ted Okada "The provision," Ms. Shelley con­ guage weekly Nashe Slovo, published in the country, that the Polish govern­ News Network International tinued, "of the more liberal version of by the Ukrainian Social-Cultural So­ ment will repudiate "Akcja Wisla," the law on freedom of conscience, ciety in Warsaw, reported in its Decem­ — the 1947 mass deportation of Ukrai­ WASHINGTON - In a recent un­ published in the official journal Soviet- ber 3 issue that the "coordination" of nians from their traditional homelands precedented hearing before the U.S.