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500 Trees to be Planted in Lviv in Pope�s Memory
09.04.2005, [11:30] // Pope John Paul II //
Lviv � On the territory of the Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God in the Sykhiv neighborhood of western Ukrainian Lviv, 500 maple trees will be planted on 9 April 2005. The late Pope John Paul II led a rally gathering hundreds of thousands of youth in that location in June 2001. A street in Lviv will also be named after the late Pope. Postup.brama.com posted the news on 6 April 2005.
Andrii Rozhniatovskyi, coordinator of the Season 90 organization, which is the initiator of the planting, said that this will be the first part of the Freedom Spring event. Season 90 plans to plant a total of 2004 maple trees in all of Lviv. This number symbolizes the previous year, when the Orange Revolution took place in Ukraine. The maple was the tree of choice precisely because its leaves turn orange in the fall.
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UOC-KP Orthodox Pray for Pope
11.04.2005, [11:46] // Pope John Paul II //
Kyiv� A panakhyda (memorial service) for the late Pope John Paul II was held at St. Volodomyr�s Cathedral of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate (UOC-KP) on 8 April 2005. According to Ukraine�s TV Channel 5, this was the first time in the history of the Orthodox Church that a Pope was prayed for in an Orthodox Cathedral.
Patriarch Filaret (Denysenko), head of the UOC-KP, personally celebrated the service. �It is probably the first time in the history of the Orthodox Church when people pray for the soul of a deceased Pope in Ukraine,� said the patriarch. �Prayers for Pope John Paul II today were the manifestation of Christian love which is inherent in every Christian.�
The patriarch met the late Pope John Paul II during the papal visit to Ukraine in June 2001.
Sources: Channel 5, BBC Monitoring Service, Action Ukraine Report
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