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Round Table on Religious Freedom Participants № Organization Name, Position Confessions 1. Orthodox Church of Ukraine Archbish Round Table on Religious Freedom Participants № Organization Name, Position Confessions Archbishop Evstratiy, deputy head of the external affairs Archbishop Kliment, head of Orthodox 1. Orthodox Church of Ukraine mission to assist victims of human rights and prisoners, Archbishop of Simpheropol & Crimea Sergiy Bortnik, plenipotentiary for external 2. Ukrainian Orthodox Church affiars Father Oleksa Petriv, head of external 3. Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church affairs in Ukraine Andriy Chmilenko, coordinator of Christian 4 Roman Catholic Church Service All-Ukrainian Union of Churches of Evangelical Christians – 5. Igor Bandura, First deputy head Baptists Anatoliy Kozachok 6. Ukrainian Church of Christian Evangelical Belief First deputy of senior bishop Hussameddin Al-Khalavani, head of 7. Spiritual directorate of Muslims of Ukraine external affairs 8. The spiritual directorate of the Muslims of the Crimea Aider Rustemov, Mufti Said Ismagilov, Mufti 9. Spiritual directorate of Muslims «UMMA» Sheikh Renat Khabibutdinov, imam of the Al-Amal mosque in Donetsk Maksim Krupsky, head of internal affiars 10. Seventh-day Adventist Churches and religious freedom 11. Ukrainian Christian Evangelical Church Leonid Padun, senior bishop Markos, bishop, 12. Ukrainian Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church Olena (Oganesyan), deputy head of bishop council Gennady Beloretsky, legal advisor of the the 13. Association of Jewish Religious Organizations of Ukraine chief rabbi of Kiev and Ukraine Pavlo Feldblum, Head of council Vyacheslav Gorpinchuk, bishop 14. Ukrainian Lutheran Church Igor Rudzik, secretary Grigory Komendant, President 15. Ukrainian Bible Society Anatoliy Raichinets, Deputy Secretary General 16. German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ukraine Sergei Mashevskiy, bishop Edwin C. Kumfermen, President of the 17. Church of Jesus Christ and Latter-day Saints (Mormons) Ukrainian Kievan Moldovan Mission Reuven Stamov, Chief Rabbi of Conservative 18. The Conservative Judaism community "Masoret" of Kyiv Judaism in Ukraine Moshe Reuven Asman, Chief Rabbi of Kyiv 19. All-Ukrainian Congress of Jewish Religious Communities and Ukraine (Hasidim Khabad Lyubavich) Religious union of communities of progressive Judaism of Alexander Dukhovny, Chief Rabbi of Ukraine 20. Ukraine and Kiev 21. Jewish community of Donbass Pinhas Vishedsky, Chief Rabbi of Donbass Association of Missionary Churches of Evangelical 22. Victor Tantsura, chairman of the board Christians of Ukraine Center of Independent Charismatic Christian Churches of 23. Anatoliy Gavrilyuk, senior bishop Ukraine (Full Gospel) Spiritual Directorate of Christians of the Evangelical Faith 24. Vasil Bilyk, administrator "Ukrainian Missionary Church" Brotherhood (association) of independent churches and Andrey Zakharov, head of Western region, 25. missions of evangelical Christians –Baptists of Ukraine pastor 26. Free Church of Ukraine Michailo Bagnyuk, lawyer, lecturer Pavlo Golub, Dneporpetrovsk region bishop, 27. Union Church of God of Ukraine deputy of national bishop Center of Christian Evangelical Churches of Ukraine 28. Henry Madava, senior pastor "Victory" 29. Church "Good News" Slavyansk Peter Dudnik, pastor, volunteer-chaplain 30. Missionary Union of Evangelical Communities of Ukraine Father Pavlo Shvarts, head Civil Society Organizations Oleksandra Matviychuk, 1. Center for Civil Liberties Chair 1) Aleksander Zaets, 2. Religious Freedom Institute Chair 2) Maksim Vasin, Executive Director Pavel Gorodets, executive director 3. Institute of Geopolitical Dimension Vyacheslav Sirotenko, member of board Denis Gorenkov, director 4. Mission Eurasia Konstantin Teryatnikov, director of educational program VAAD of Ukraine (Association of Jewish Organizations and 5. Josef Zissels, executive co-president Communities of Ukraine) 6. Ukrainian Jewish Committee Eduard Dolinsky, director 7. Group for monitoring the rights of national minorities Vyacheslav Likhachev, head 8. Eleos-Ukraine Public Organization Sergey Dmitriev, leader, priest-chaplain 9. International Charitable Foundation "Caritas Ukraine" Andrey Nagornyak, vice-president Rustam Fatullayev, president, priest- 10. Association of Christian Rehabilitation Centers chaplain 11. Movement "Strong Communities" Valentin Krasnoperov, coordinator 12. Association of Christian Lawyers of Ukraine Andrey Gnedez, board member 13. Crimea SOS Olga Kurishko, lawyer 14. Crimean Human Rights Group Olga Skripnik, head 15. Human Rights Center "Smena" Tatiana Pechonchik, head of board 16. Regional Center for Human Rights Sergei Zayets, expert, Lawyer 17. Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union Alexander Pavlichenko, Executive Director 18. Ukrainian Human Rights Institute Bogdan Kriklivenko, co-founder 19. East Ukrainian Center for Civic Initiatives Vadim Sabinin, analyst 20. Relatives of political prisoners of the Kremlin Igor Grib, co-founder Natalia Doroshenko, head, lawyer 21. Association of Christian Lawyers "Hushai" Eugene Golovkov, head of board, lawyer 22. Center for Public Health Advocacy Julia Soloha, head Ukrainian Center for Nonviolent Communication and Alena Ganzyak-Kaskiv, head 23. Reconciliation "Space of Dignity" Carl Presner, chief trainer, project manager Academicians Ludmilla Filipovich, Vice-president of UAR, 1. Ukrainian Association of Religious Studies doctor of philosophical sciences, professor Institute of Philosophy G. Skovoroda, National Academy of Igor Kozlovsky, Candidate of Philosophy, 2. Sciences of Ukraine Senior Researcher Vasil Kostitsky, President, Doctor of Law, 3. Association of Ukrainian Lawyers Academician Anastasia Sukhodolska Vitaliy Khromets, deputy director of the National Pedagogical University named after MP 4. Center for Religious Studies, director of the Drahomanov public organization Nestorivsky Center 5. Religious Information Service of Ukraine Тaras Antoshevsky, director 6. State and Church Institute Ustim Khavarsky, head 7. National University of Kiev-Mohilyan Academy Olena Bogdan, Sociologist PHD Larry Lerner, President Anastasia Aseeva, Executive Director 1. UCSJ Rabbi Roger Lerner 61 entity and 73 persons as of official list of participants. More detailed information after finalizing of attendance lists (around 85 people were present). .
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