Greek Catholics Prepare European Day of University Youth in Ukraine
 Lviv - The Patriarchal Commission on Youth Affairs of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) will participate in the preparation of the third annual European Day of University Youth. The event will take place on 5 March 2005 under the auspices of the Council of European Episcopal Conferences and the European Committee of University Chaplains. Father Yosyf Milian, head of the UGCC commission, spoke about the upcoming event at a press conference on 28 February 2005.
According to Fr. Milian, one of the good traditions of the European Day of University Youth is the common prayer of European students with Pope John Paul II through TV connections. This year the TV connections will link nine European cities: Lisbon, Madrid, London, Berlin, Kyiv, Zagreb, Tirana, Bucharest and Bari. This event is taking place in Kyiv for the first time and will be broadcast on Ukraine's TV Channel One.
According to the press service of the head of the UGCC, the common prayer, which will begin at 6:30 p.m. Ukrainian time, will take place in the Church of St. Basil the Great on Kyiv's Lviv Square.
This year the European Day of University Youth is being conducted as part of the preparation for the 20th annual World Youth Day, to take place in Koln (Cologne), Germany in August 2005. It is also held to promote the organization of meetings and discussions on the relationship between faith and reason, which was the subject of the papal encyclical "Fides et Ratio."
Source: www.ugcc.org.ua
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