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Ukrainian Catholic University to Co-Organize International, Interreligious Youth Seminar
09-08-2008
08.08.2008, [16:20] // Conference // - Lviv- The Ukrainian Catholic University in western Ukrainian Lviv together with the Tkuma (Rebirth) All-Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies and the Federation of Polish Organizations in Ukraine will organize "Kovcheh," (The Ark) an annual international, interreligious youth seminar of Ukrainian, Polish, and Jewish students. To be held from 17 to 25 August 2008, the theme of this year's seminar is "Ukrainians, Poles, and Jews in Western Ukraine in the Years of Trials (1939-1947)."
The lavra (major monastery) of the Studite order in western Ukrainian Univ, Lviv Region, is, not accidentally, the site for the seminar. During World War II priests and monks of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) with the blessing of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, head of the UGCC at that time, saved Jewish children from the Holocaust and also helped Ukrainian and Polish children at the lavra. One of the Jews saved was Adam Rotfeld, who later served as the minister of foreign affairs of Poland.
According to the organizers, international and interreligious dialogue is an important pre-condition for forming an atmosphere of tolerance in Ukrainian society.
The seminar consists of three blocs: educational (lecturers and seminars); workshops, round-tables, art studio, and psychological training; and the spiritual culmination, national-cultural presentations.
Noted civic activists, artists, and high diplomatic representatives of Ukraine, Israel, and Poland, and others will take part in "Kovcheh."
