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
English words of Greek origin Many words from the Hebrew Bible were transmitted to the western languages through the Greek of the Septuagint, often without morphological regularization: "rabbi" (ραββί), "seraphim" (σεραφείμ, σεραφίμ), "paradise" (παράδεισος < Hebrew < Persian), "pharaoh" (Φαραώ < Hebrew < Egyptian). Many Greek words, especially those borrowed through the literary tradition, are recognizable as such from their spelling. Latin had standard orthographies for Greek borrowings: Greek was written as 'y', as 'ph', as 'c', rough breathings as 'h', "etc." These conventions (which originally reflected pronunciation) have carried over into English and other languages with historical orthography (like French). They make it possible