Всем миром к добру и объединению! Перевод субтитров интернет-акции / All Together for Good and Unity Online Campaign. Subtitle translation: Греко-католики о дружбе и объединении / Greek Catholics on Friendship and Unification

They still have it in schools.
Do you realize?

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It is humiliation of human
dignity. Because

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man is created in the image
and likeness of God.

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Apes never had such mind
and consciousness as man does.

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Apes do not have free will
to choose as we, humans, do.

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This is exactly why we are
the image of God.

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The second reason is,
I think, that the Church

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is not very persistent in going
to educational institutions.

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But even when the Church
is persistent it faces

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huge resistance
from state institutions.

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I know one example,
how difficult it was

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to recognize Ukranian
Catholic University

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as normal accredited institution
in Ukraine. They had

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a lot of problems and
faced massive resistance.

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They said that it is the minister who makes
decision. But ministers change posts very often.

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The problem is in their assistants,
who constantly

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work there. They may have been raised
in the Soviet times.

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They do not want
to understand and

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do not believe in that. They are
an obstacle for other people

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who want to spread
Christian ideas in

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educational institutions.
I think this problem will exist

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until our goverment realize
that the Church

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is not an enemy.
That usually

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a normal clergyman
would never make

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any effort to become
a politician

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because it is not for him. But
the state should realize that

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without the Church it will
never give people moral education.

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Never. Many times I asked
myself one question.

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We celebrated the 1025th anniversary
of the baptism of Kievan Rus, Ukraine,

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which took place in Kiev
that later became the cradle

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of Christianity in all Eastern
Europe and spread it to

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Moscow lands. I often
wonder what

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would happen to our state and its
people if there was no Church.

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I do not know. But I have
been wondering if we would

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remain as a nation, as a state.
This is why

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the problem will
continue to exist.

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Children will not know about
God until the Church does not

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get access to schools and
educational institutions to teach

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Christian ethics there.
You know,

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it is very difficult to
attract young people

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in our temples.Come to us!
But we do this with the help of their

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grandmothers, grandfathers,
through various projects

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and summer camps,
summer holidays with God,

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in order to get them interested.
We also have some

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financial problems because we
should find somewhere money

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and sponsors. And in the end
we have poor results

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because young people
and children also become

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too materialistic. They
do not understand

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why they should believe, why
they should have faith. Maybe

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later they will understand that there is
something that cannot be measured by money

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