NEW
RELIGIOUS STATE
HOLIDAYS TO APPEAR IN UKRAINE
Union
of Orthodox
Journalists, 30 July 2020
Ramadan-Bayram,
Kurban-Bayram,
Passover, Rosh Hashanah, Hanukah, and Easter of Christians of
the western rite may receive the status of state holidays of
Ukraine.
On 30
July 2020,
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky instructed the cabinet of
ministers to
work out the question regarding granting state status to
individual religious
holidays, the website of the head of state reports.
Order
No. 303/2020,
signed by Zelensky, speaks about such religious holidays as
Ramadan-Bayram,
Kurban-Bayram, Passover, Rosh Hashanah, Hanukah, Easter of
Christians of the
western rite, and several others.
A report
of the press
service of the Office of the President says that "such a
proposal is made
with the goal of ensuring the constitutional rights and
liberties of citizens;
the exercise of various rights and opportunities for all
believers; and respect
for the history, culture and traditions of Ukrainian society as
multi-ethnic
and multi-confessional."
According
to the
order, the cabinet of ministers must study this issue and work
out proposals in
cooperation with the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and
Religious
Organizations and the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory,
and after that
introduce a pertinent draft law into the Verkhovna Rada. (tr. by
PDS, posted 30
July 2020)
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