{"id":50167,"date":"2017-10-21T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2017\/10\/21\/leader-of-ukrainian-greek-catholic-church-presents-polish-ukrainian-reconciliation-award\/"},"modified":"2017-10-21T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T13:00:00","slug":"leader-of-ukrainian-greek-catholic-church-presents-polish-ukrainian-reconciliation-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2017\/10\/21\/leader-of-ukrainian-greek-catholic-church-presents-polish-ukrainian-reconciliation-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Leader of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church presents Polish-Ukrainian reconciliation award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After World War II, Europe freed itself from its past through <strong>forgiveness and the reconciliation of countries<\/strong>, such as France and Germany, Germany and Poland or Ukraine and Poland.<\/p>\n<p>Now, civil and religious leaders from Ukraine and Poland are working toward <strong>mutual forgiveness becoming a shared culture<\/strong>. One of the initiatives to promote this is an award for those who contribute to that process.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church announced this year\u2019s<strong> two winners <\/strong>at the Vatican. The first is the <strong>Congregation for the Oriental Churches<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SVIATOSLAV SHEVCHUK<br \/>\nMajor Archbishop, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>\u201cThe dicastery has embodied the idea of reconciliation between the Polish and Ukrainian people in the lives of the Churches and people of eastern Europe for the last 30 years.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The other winner is <strong>Vatican Radio<\/strong>. It is being recognized for inspiring bonds of unity between people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SVIATOSLAV SHEVCHUK<br \/>\nMajor Archbishop, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>\u201cI must say that the first time I heard Pope John Paul II\u2019s voice was on Vatican Radio. In the days of the clandestine Church, we couldn\u2019t go to ceremonies in our churches; every Sunday, we listened on our knees to the ceremony broadcast by Vatican Radio.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The award is <strong>a sculpture with two flowers bent over one another<\/strong> that grow from the same root. It  encourages people to remember not only the bad things that happened in history, but also the good things, which should construct the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 21, 2017. Sviatoslav Shevchuk stressed that mutual forgiveness must now become part of the culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":28160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/WJJhidoQwLo","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bshevchuckeng.mov","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bshevchuckint.mov","type":"none","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}