Ambassador and senator to speak at St. Patrick's (11/14/99)

Ambassador and senator to speak at St. Patrick's

NEW YORK - Ukraine's Ambassador to the United States Anton Buteiko and Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) will speak after the requiem service in memory of the victims of the Great Famine in Ukraine, according to the event's organizers.

The services will begin at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Fifth Avenue and 51st Street, here on Saturday, November 20, at 1 p.m. The concelebrants will be Archbishop Antony of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and Bishop Basil Losten of the Ukrainian Catholic Church. New York's Dumka chorus, directed by Vasyl Hrechynsky, will sing the responses.

The Civic Committee to Remember the Victims of the Famine in Ukraine, the organizing and coordinating body formed under the aegis of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America and the Ukrainian American Coordinating Council, will open the day's events with a solemn procession - the first through the streets of New York City in many years - to pay tribute to the 7 million victims of this Kremlin-perpetrated crime in Ukraine.

The staging point for the solemn procession will be St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church on East Seventh Street between Second and Third avenues, and All Saints Ukrainian Orthodox Church on East 11th Street, between Second and Third avenues. Participants are to gather at 10 a.m.; the procession will get under way along Third Avenue at 11 a.m.

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