Christian ethics taught in Ukraine's public schools
BackFor the first time in 90 years, Ukrainian students have the option of studying Christian ethics in the public schools. Christian ethics for the school curriculum was an initiative proposed by Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko shortly after the Orange Revolution in 2005.
The program calls for voluntary participation and is supported by the leaders of Ukraine's largest Christian denominations. One Baptist church association, "Hope to People" of Rivne, Ukraine, sponsors teacher training at several "fellowship camps" throughout the year.
In the summer of 2007, I attended one of these fellowship camps for teachers of Christian ethics as a public high school teacher from the USA. The camp was held at the Vodogray resort in the beautiful Carpathian Mountain region of western Ukraine.
I asked the principal of a school in Kharkov: "Why is the culture and attitude toward religion of eastern and western Ukraine so different?"
"It's not the same, eastern Ukraine and western Ukraine, because the western part of Ukraine was added to the Soviet Union later on, about 20 years.
"And this is why they could keep their national culture and national language as well.
"And they resisted the communists who pressured them so that people here might speak Russian only.
"And the Ukrainian language was forbidden as a language at school and even as a language of common fellowship."
Channel: Travel & Events
Uploaded: March 23, 2008 at 11:05 pm
Author: jcr4runner
Length: 00:08:53
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Tags: Mukacheve Rivne Kiev Lviv Uzhgorod Ukraine missions Christian Jesus Christ travel log
Video Comments:
nik69 (October 12, 2008 at 6:18 pm)
This is a step backwards
taterville29 (November 7, 2008 at 8:11 pm)
You are dead wrong, that is a great step forward for Ukrain schools.
nik69 (November 8, 2008 at 9:48 am)
Ukrainian children learn orthodox or catholic values at Sunday school. Public schools should be kept secular so people of all faiths can come together. This prevents further division of Ukrainian people.
Transformer316 (April 24, 2008 at 2:40 am)
This is Awesome! Praise the Living God.
leehec (March 25, 2008 at 7:23 pm)
bod bless them all
jcr4runner (March 24, 2008 at 7:56 pm)
For information on how you can get involved with this mission to teachers of Christian ethics or with Ukrainian missions in general, please message me at the link above -- jcr4runner
Or email me at my address listed on The Forerunner website -- see the address above.
Or email me at my address listed on The Forerunner website -- see the address above.