{"id":15656,"date":"2025-02-21T11:41:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T09:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/?p=15656"},"modified":"2025-02-21T11:41:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T09:41:36","slug":"national-day-of-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/monitoring\/national-day-of-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"National Day of Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Draft resolution #<\/span><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/itd.rada.gov.ua\/billinfo\/Bills\/Card\/55631\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">12412<\/span><\/b><\/a><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> of January 15, 2025<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:2,&quot;335551620&quot;:2,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Cosponsors: <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">51 MPs from the Servant of the People, European Solidarity, Batkivshchyna, and Holos factions and groups Trust and For the Future with Davyd Arakhamia as the first signatory<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Status: <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">adopted, awaits to be signed by the Speaker<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Who is affected:<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\"> all citizens of Ukraine and the Cabinet of Ministers<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Summary:<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"3\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the resolution established a National Day of Prayer in Ukraine, which will be celebrated annually on February 24<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"3\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the Cabinet of Ministers has three months to develop and approve a comprehensive action plan to officially celebrate the National Day of Prayer.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What is right:<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> the celebration of the National Day of Prayer can become a platform for uniting various religious communities.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What is wrong:<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> the Constitution of Ukraine defines the country as a secular state, and therefore a separate day of prayer may provoke discussions about the interference of religion in state matters.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Alternative solution:<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> to ensure that the new holiday does not become a tool for social division, but rather supports harmony and unity among different confessions. While religious organizations play an essential role in the cultural and social life of the country, the state should remain neutral concerning religious issues.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Draft resolution #12412 of January 15, 2025\u00a0 Cosponsors: 51 MPs from the Servant of the People, European Solidarity, Batkivshchyna, and Holos factions and groups Trust and For the Future with Davyd Arakhamia as the first signatory\u00a0 Status: adopted, awaits to be signed by the Speaker\u00a0 Who is affected: all citizens of Ukraine and the Cabinet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":11937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[],"level":[],"area":[],"coauthors":[1039],"class_list":["post-15656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monitoring"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15657,"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15656\/revisions\/15657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15656"},{"taxonomy":"level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/level?post=15656"},{"taxonomy":"area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/area?post=15656"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreua.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=15656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}