
As part of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, on January 24, 2010, in the St. Basil the Great Church
(UGCC) the representatives of the main denominations of Ukraine jointly prayed for the unity of Christians. That evening together with His Beatitude in the joint prayer took part the Apostolic Nuncio in Ukraine Archbishop Ivan Yurkovich, clergy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kyivan-Patriarchate and Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, clergy of Ukrainian Greek Catholic and Roman Catholic Churches, protestant pastors of the Church of Christians of the Evangelical Faith of Ukraine
(Pentecostals), and the Kyivan Jewish Messiah society. The prayer was led by Bishop Joseph
(Milyan), auxiliary bishop of the Kyivan Archeparchy of the UGCC.