Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the USSR regarding the Millennium of Ukraine's Christianity, scheduled to be commemorated in 1988. In his letter, John Paul II underscored the importance of preserving the Union of Brest, by expressing his respect for the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic episcopate, clergy, and faithful who bore witness to injustice and persecution in the name of Christ and professed their faith in God and their Church. Simultaneously directing his address at the Soviet government, the pope invoked the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by appealing to the authorities to allow each believer to profess his/her own faith and to participate in the communal life of the
Names for the human species to the Hebrew "Adam" (אָדָם) "man", derived from a word for "red, reddish-brown". Etymologically, it may be an ethnic or racial classification (after "reddish" skin colour contrasting with both "white" and "black"), but Genesis takes it to refer to the reddish colour of earth, as in the narrative the first man is formed from earth. Other Indo-European languages name man for his mortality, "*mr̥tós" meaning "mortal", so in Armenian "mard", Persian "mard", Sanskrit "marta" and Greek βροτός meaning "mortal; human". This is comparable to the Semitic word for "man", represented by Arabic "insan" (cognate with Hebrew "ʼenōš" ), from a