Easter GGHA Petition to the UN in defense of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and millions of its believers

Orthodox churches in Ukraine, in accordance with the authorities spiritual Satanism and legal nihilism, which grossly violate the rights and freedoms of millions of Orthodox believers in the country,

Apr 9, 2023 - 21:59

Easter GGHA Petition to the UN

We, the Gandhian Global Harmony Association (GGHA) members and supporters, an international peacemaking organization headquartered in Delhi, established on February 15, 2005 and bringing together more than 600 humanities scholars and peacemakers from more than 50 countries, including the President of India, Abdul Kalam, 5 Nobel Peace Prize laureates and leaders of many international peace organizations have signed and are sending to the UN the following Petition “In defense of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and millions of its believers”.

We, the undersigned believers of good will, Orthodox and Catholic Christians in the first place, PROTEST against the monstrous violent persecution of the state nationalist leadership of Ukraine against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and millions of its believers. Orthodox churches in Ukraine, in accordance with the authorities spiritual Satanism and legal nihilism, which grossly violate the rights and freedoms of millions of Orthodox believers in the country, burn and destroy Orthodox churches with heavy machinery, persecute and kill Orthodox priests, forcibly close Orthodox monasteries, seize the premises of Orthodox churches and mock the Orthodox believers in the most disgusting way, humiliating their human dignity in every possible way. Blessed Augustine was truly right when he pointed out that earthly kingdoms like the modern Ukrainian regime are "kingdoms of Satan" that are perishing from it.

We SUPPORT the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in its constitutional right to life and millions of Orthodox believers in their right to freedom of Orthodox conscience and religion, serving to universal peace, truth and unity of all believers.

We are outraged by the illegal actions of the Ukrainian nationalist authorities, we DEMAND the restoration of legality and justice in relation to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and its congregation.

We INSIST on the immediate response of the UN and UNESCO in defense of the believers millions rights the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, if they remain international bodies of support for them and have not become bodies of assistance in trampling them.

We INVITE all people of good will publicly, through the GGHA networks, to SIGN our Petition since Easter to Easter, since April 9 to April 16, indicating your name, faith and country. The list of signatories who have PUBLICLY signed the Petition, in order to rule out any suspicion, will be published on the GGHA website

in Russian: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=1026

and English: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=1126,

to officially submit this list to the UN and UNESCO.

We ASK all people of good will to publish and widely distribute our Petition in solidarity and with the Easter peace, with which we congratulate everyone!

ORTHODOXES:

Leo Semashko, GGHA founder (2005) and Honorary President, Russia,

Julia Budnikova, GGHA-Russia President,

Andrey Smirnov, GGHA Vice President, Russia,

April 9, 2023

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SIGNATURES

Leo Semashko, GGHA founder (2005) and Honorary President, Russia

Julia Budnikova, GGHA-Russia President,

Andrey Smirnov, GGHA Vice President, Russia

Panagiotis -Takis D Ioannides, GGHA Co-founder and Vice President, Greece,