03.11.2008, [17:26] // Conference // RISU.ORG.UA
Odessa—On 30 October, a scholarly-practical conference “Ukraine and the Vatican in the Development of Higher Education” was held in The Christian Humanitarian and Economic University in Odessa.
In particular, a report by Yurii Reshetnikov a candidate of Philosophic Sciences, dealt with the question of interaction of the Church with the state in the area of education in the context of harmonization of state-church relations. He described the legal basis of the law in place in the questions of religious education and noted that today, the rights of believers to education are very impaired as compared to other categories of citizens. Y. Reshetnikov informed the audience about deputies’ initiatives to remedy the situation. Y. Reshetnikov described the decision of the education minister, I. Vakarchuk to support a number of alterations to the law, as positive and instrumental in changing the situation. The minister announced this at the session of the extended collegium of the Ministry of Education with the participation of representatives from the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations on 26 June of this year.
In an interview with our RISU correspondent, the Director of the European Institute of Social Communications, Oleksandr Dobroier, who also participated in the conference, said: “The role of this conference is very important. It showed vividly the great contribution of the Catholic Church in the formation of the European system of education as well as the significance of the present efforts of the Catholic Church in Ukraine in the work of formation of the modern educated Ukrainian intelligentsia.”
Approximately, sixty religious experts, theologians, teachers at Ukrainian higher education institutions and students of Odessa participated in the conference.