Golodomor victims in the Ukraine were honored in the New York Catholic Church

On November 16-th, 2019 at St. Patrick's Central Catholic Church in New York the memory of the victims of the Holodomor in Ukraine was honored. This reported in his Twitter account, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN - Vladimir Elchenko.

“Honored to speak to Golodomor memorial service at St. Patrick Cathedral in New York: be yourselves, be Ukrainians, respect your roots and history, spread [information around] the world about this genocide, carry with pride Your Ukrainian heritage, build a future for Your children, for this crime never repeated”, wrote Elchenko.

The Deputy Minister of  Foreign Affairs of Ukraine – Sergiy Kyslytsya, published a photograph of the ceremony in his Twitter account and reminded that through the Golodomor up to 25,000 Ukrainians per day, died from the artificially induced hunger.

According to “Ukrinform”, the liturgy was served by clergy from three denominations - the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the United States, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and the Roman Catholic Church.

Representatives of the Ukrainian diplomatic corps in New York, US politicians and city officials took part in the commemoration.

In the Ukraine, the Golodomor of 1932-1933 is estimated to be an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people, perpetrated by the USSR government by artificially causing mass starvation, that has led to the death of millions of human beings in rural areas in the Ukrainian SSR.

In 2016, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (the Parliament), appealed to the democratic states to recognize the 1932-1933 Golodomor as a genocide against the Ukrainian people.

The web site of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ukraine states that up today, 24 countries have recognized the Golodomor as a genocide.

At the end of 2018 the same decision took the Congress of the United States.