On Feb. 16, 2015 has been held the following events:
- press conference about meeting of Ukrainian interdenominational
Christian Mission Religious and charitable care in prisons in the Information
Agency "Most Dnepr";
- attendance of prisoners in Solonyanska penal colony #21
(p. Apolonivka St. Sofia District);
- acquaintance with the conditions created in colony #21 to
ensure proper implementation religious rights of inmates;
- the Conference of the Board of Mission.
Representatives of Churches, which are belonging to
interdenominational mission, discussed proposals for the second reading of the
bill # 1154 on Prison Chaplaincy and details of cooperation with the State
Penitentiary Service of Ukraine to develop Regulation for religious care in the
prison system.
On Feb. 17, 2015 participants of the meeting will visit
pretrial detention facility in Dnipropetrovsk to review the conditions
established for inmates and continue the Conference of the Board of Mission. Than
pastors will visit wounded soldiers in military hospital of Dnipropetrovsk.
The event involved members of the Ukrainian
interdenominational Christian Mission "Religious and charitable care in
prisons":
1) Fr Victor YATSENKO, CEO of Mission, Head of the Synod of
the Ukrainian Orthodox Church for Pastoral Care of the penitentiary;
2) Fr Eugene ZATIRKA, deputy head of the Department of spiritual
education in prisons of Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kyiv Patriarchate);
3) Bishop Victor LOBODENKO,Rreligious Center of the God’s
Evangelical Church of Ukraine;
4) Pastor Vyacheslav KOGUT, Head of the Department of Social
Ministry of All-Ukrainian Union of Christians of Evangelical Faith (Pentacostals);
5) Pastor Sergey LUCKY, Head of prison ministry of the Council
of Ukrainian Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists;
6) Eugene DMITRIYEVSKY, Senior Pastor of Prison Ministry in
the Union of Free Churches of Christians of Evangelical Faith of Ukraine;
7) Pastor Alexander PUHLYAK, Head of prison ministry of the Association
of Independent Charismatic Christian Churches of Ukraine;
8) Deacon Victor DUDKA, prison ministry leader of the Ukrainian
Union of Christians of Evangelical Christians-Baptists;
9) Fr Constantin PANTELEY, Mission Secretary, Head of the Ukrainian
Greek Catholic Church Office for Pastoral Care in Penitentiary System of
Ukraine.
From the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine
1) Igor ANDRUSHKO, Chief of Deprtment of social and
psychological work with prisoners of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine,
colonel of internal service;
2) Alexander VEDMIDSKYY, Deputy Head of the State
Penitentiary Service of Ukraine in Dnepropetrovsk region colonel of internal
service.
The event was also attended by representatives of religious
and civic organizations of Dnipropetrovsk.
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