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 of the Albanians and Albania Names of the Albanians and Albania The Albanians () and their country Albania ("Shqipëria") have been identified by many ethnonyms. The native endonym is Shqiptar. The name "Albanians" (Byzantine Greek: "Albanoi/Arbanitai/Albanites"; Latin: "Albanenses/Arbanenses") was used in medieval Greek and Latin documents that gradually entered European languages from which other similar derivative names emerged. Linguists believe that the "alb" part in the root word originates from an Indo-European term for a type of mountainous topography, meaning "hill, mountain", also present in "Alps". Through the root word "alban" and its rhotacized equivalents "arban", "albar", and "arbar", the term in Albanian became rendered