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 a prefix in Greek. Many Greek affixes such as "anti-" and "-ic" have become productive in English, combining with arbitrary English words: "antichoice", "Fascistic". Some portmanteau words in English have led to suffixes based on Greek words, but which are not suffixes in Greek, "e.g." "-athon" or "-a-thon" ("walkathon", from "walk" and "(mar)athon") and "-nomics" ("Reaganomics", from "Reagan" and "(eco)nomics"). Some Greek words were borrowed through Arabic and then Romance. Many are learned: "alchemy" ("al-" + χημεία or χημία), "elixir" ("al-" + ξήριον), "alembic" ("al-" + ἄμβιξ); but others are popular: "botargo" (ᾠοτάριχον), "tajine" (τάγηνον), and possibly "quintal" (κεντηνάριον <