Ukrainian President Urges Revival Of Christian Values

KIEV, Ukraine -- Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko called on Ukrainians to revive Christian values.

President Viktor Yushchenko (L) and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
“Let Christmas bells – messengers of the birth of Christ and the Savior – bring to your homes peace and warmth,” he said in his address to the Ukrainian people on the Christmas Eve.

“I believe that the revival of Christian values and deep national traditions will enrich the Ukrainian nation,” he said.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said in her address that this holiday symbolises the revival and hope.

“This very hope for a better future has saved the Ukrainian people for hundreds of years and helped us get up off our knees. And we also need this very hope now, when our authorities have finally become democratic and consolidated,” she said.

“God gives us the chance to become highly moral and independent European nation,” Tymoshenko said.

The oppositional leader and head of the Party of Regions, Viktor Yanukovich, said “let the birth of Christ renovate our belief and give us new strengths to overcome all trials and decently go down the path of life.”

Source: ITAR-TASS