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LXXXV No. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 1978 25 CENTS Joint Pastoral Calls Kiev, Moscow Groups For Unification ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE CONVENTION Score Druzhkivka Trial OF THE Of Churches WASHINGTON, D.C.--The Kiev UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, INC. and Moscow Groups to Promote the ROME, Italy.-A call for unity of Implementation of the Helsinki all Ukrainian Christians was the theme NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO THE SUPREME AND BRANCH Accords, in a joint appeal dated June of the 1978 Christmas Pastoral letter 30-July 2,1977, have castigated the So­ issued by Patriarch Josyf Cardinal Sli- OFFICERS AND TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE UKRAINIAN viet Union for its handling of the Ru- pyj and the hierarchs of the "Pomis- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, THAT THE denko-Tykhy trial, reported the "Smo- na" Ukrainian Catholic Church. loskyp" Ukrainian Information Ser­ The pastoral letter said that the uni­ vice. fication of the Ukrainian Catholic, The appeal, which was signed by six Orthodox and Evangelical-Baptist 29th Regular Convention members of the Kiev Group, five mem­ churches into "one, holy, unified, of the bers of the Moscow Group, and 23 Apostolic 'Pomisna' Ukrainian supporters, was received by the Helsin­ Church'' would be a fitting commem­ UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, INC. ki Guarantees for Ukraine Committee oration of the millenium of Christiani­ here, the U.S. counterpart of the Kiev ty in Ukraine. will be held in body. "Today Christian Ukrainians are divided into Orthodox and Catholics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania The statement said that the trial in and even major Evagnelical groupings. Druzhkivka of Mykola Rudenko and It would be very strange, regrettable, at the Oleksiy Tykhy was a " formidable and would serve no purpose, while threat to others." even being dangerous for posterity, if Pittsburgh Hilton Hotel, Gateway Center "It served as a warning that every­ we would celebrate this important date one could be sentenced, even a person for all of us independently, and, God Beginning May 22,1978 who sympathizes with someone who forbid, if we would initiate polemics openly defends human rights," said among ourselves by attempting to twist In accordance with the By-Laws of the UNA regarding election of the two monitoring groups. the historic truth to suit ourselves in­ delegates to the Convention, the qualifications for delegates, the num­ As an example, the Kiev and Mos­ dividually," wrote Patriarch Josyf and ber of delegates from each Branch and the credentials of delegates are cow groups cited the trial of Vasyl Bar- the other hierarchs. "That is why, bro­ as follows: ladianu in Odessa. Barladianu was sen­ thers and sisters in Christ, we, the The election of delegates and their alternates must be held within 60 tenced to three years for merely read­ Bishops, led by our Patriarch, desire days of the announcement of the Convention. Since the Convention ing the memorandums of the Kiev and strive that at least in the free was announced on January 2, 1978 the 60-day term for election of group. world, and, if God willing, in our na­ delegates and their alternates ends on March 3rd, 1978. "The trials in Druzhkivka and tive land, we observe the historic event Delegates and their alternates to which the Branch is entitled shall Odessa - both open political trials - of the millenium of Christianity to­ be elected at a regular meeting of the Branch by the members present. are a sad demonstration before the gether with our Orthodox brothers, Nominations shall be made from the floor and all candidates present­ whole world of the Soviet understand­ and most assuredly this will be of great ed to the membership for vote. The candidate or candidates receiving ing of human rights," they said. value to all of us, to Christ's Church in the highest number of votes shall be elected delegates. The next imme­ Spokesmen for the two groups said Ukraine, and to our nation." diate candidates, in order of vote, failing to qualify as delegates, shall that the trials were proof that the So­ viet Union will not heed international As mentioned in the pastoral letter, be alternates to a number equaling the number of delegates elected. All tie votes involving alternates shall be immediately resolved by an- treaties which it signed and of its dis­ Patriarch Josyf made a historic visit to respect of world public opinion. the late Archbishop John Theodoro- (Continued on page 3) vich, then Metropolitan of the Ukraini­ (Continued on page 4) an Orthodox Church in the U.S.A., to discuss such a unification. The meeting was held at the Ukrainian Orthodox UNA Announces Convention Consistory in South Bound Brook, N.J., August 6,1968. Citing the times of St. Volodymyr AtYear-End Executive Meeting and Yaroslav the Wise, the pastoral JERSEY CITY, N.J.—The official Chief Anthony Dragan. Supreme same period in 1976. As of the date of said that 400 years of polemics wasted announcement of UNA's 29th Regular Director for Canada, Sen. Paul Yuzyk, the meeting, a total of 592,714 in in­ the energies and created animosities Convention, to be held in Pittsburgh, explained his absence by citing trans­ come from dues had been recorded, a which continue to separate the Ukraini­ Pa., during the week beginning May portation difficulties. sum 5167,983 short of the total needed an Catholic and Orthodox Churches. It 22nd, the time and the amount of divi­ to meet the 1976 plateau. The Trea­ called for an end to these differences. dend payment to UNA certificate hol­ Treasurer's Report surer went on to report her efforts to It suggested that proposals put forth ders, the рге-convention membership contact Branch officers, by letters and by Metropolitans Petro Mohyla and drive and assessment of progress made Mrs. Diachuk, commencing the by telephone, who were late with the Veliamyn Rutsky in the 17th century in 1977 dominated the agenda of the Ex­ series of reports, stated that UNA's as­ remittance of Branch dues. She cited provide a working basis for a possible ecutive Committee's year-end meeting sets increased by SI, 146,118 - by Branches 257, 408, 281, 147, and 361 reunification. held Wednesday, December 28, at the S105,000 more than for the same whose secretaries are ailing and unable The pastoral said that the unification Main Office here. period in 1976 — bringing the total as to collect dues from members. Several of the Catholic, Orthodox and Evan­ Attending the meeting, which was of the end of November to smaller Branches which had been tardy gelical churches would create "a for­ opened and chaired by Supreme President 542,296,600. She said she expected the were sent assessments for several tress which will repell all hostile moves Joseph Lesawyer, were the following assets to total approximately S42.4 months in an effort to help them to against our people, whether of religious supreme executive officers: Vice-Presi- million by the year's end. catch up. or political nature." dents Dr. John O. Flis and Mary Dush- Income from dues, which reflects the "If we united, we would live evange­ nyck, Secretary Walter Sochan, Trea­ organization's growth, amounted to This was also the case with mortgage lically, as Christ wanted, and this surer Ulana Diachuk, Organizer Stefan 52,764,786.87 as of the end of Nov­ loans. Poor mail delivery — worst (Continued on page 9) (Continued on page 4) Hawrysz, as well as Svoboda Editor-in- ember, by 510,000 more than in the V THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 1978 No. 6 Some Inmates Lose Faith, Most Remain Loyal to Ideals, Sakharovs Visit Camp, Are Barred From Says Young Ukrainian Prisoner Seeing Prisoner A young Ukrainian political prisoner trayal by friends, there are people, who "I think that communism for France told an unknown correspondent that after 25 years and longer, continue to is unavoidable, and because of it the MOSCOW, USSR.—Andrei D. Sa- years of torture and harassment in the be loyal to God and country, and there problems of Ukraine will also become kharov, the physicist turned human Soviet camps have made some political are more of these people,'' he said. inescapable for France -- the political rights advocate, spent more than a prisoners lose faith in themselves and Shovkovy is a graduate of a secondary camps, dissidents, Trench bourgeois week with his wife and stepson in the their ideals, while others, he said, con­ school, who worked as a carpenter in nationalism/ " he said. world of Soviet labor camps this tinue t9 be loyal to God and country. Pechenizhyn in the Ivano-Frankivske Shovkovy admitted that he renounc­ month, trying to visit an imprisoned Ivan Shovkovy, 28, painted for the oblast. He was arrested in 1973 for friend, reported Craig R. Whitney in ed his Soviet citizenship and has re­ The New York Times of January 1st. anonymous reporter a picture of the allegedly belonging to the Association quested an exit visa because he feels gruesome life of the political inmate of Ukrainian Youth of Halychyna, and that after he is released from incarcer­ In Zone 20, a small archipelago of and the reasons why he is being confin­ sentenced to five years severe regime ation he "cannot be useful to Uk­ camps about 250 miles southeast of ed for five years in the Perm region imprisonment. raine." Moscow, in the Mordovian Autono­ concentration camps. The full text of Shovkovy told the interviewer that "And besides that, I want to have a mous Republic, the Sakharovs found the interview was released in New York he considers himself a political pri­ family, raise healthy children, read the prison guards nearly as deprived as by the press service of the Ukrainian soner because his views are not respect­ normal Ukrainian literature and not the prisoners.