{"id":1330171,"date":"2025-12-08T14:55:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T12:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-rada-proposes-to-introduce-a-new-public-holiday-what-and-when\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T14:55:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T12:55:32","slug":"the-rada-proposes-to-introduce-a-new-public-holiday-what-and-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-rada-proposes-to-introduce-a-new-public-holiday-what-and-when\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rada proposes to introduce a new public holiday: what and when"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>People&#8217;s Deputy Oksana Savchuk proposes to establish a public holiday in Ukraine &#8211; the Day of the Apostle Andrew the First-Called, which will be celebrated every year on November 30.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/itd.rada.gov.ua\/billinfo\/Bills\/Card\/59007\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is stated<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on the website of the Verkhovna Rada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn the conditions of a full-scale war for the independence and identity of the Ukrainian people, the issue of restoring historical memory and strengthening the spiritual foundations of statehood is gaining strategic importance,\u201d the explanatory note says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to her, the personality of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called helps to understand the place of Ukraine in European Christian civilization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, it emphasizes civilizational choice and apostolic succession; spiritual consolidation; and the restoration of historical justice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Savchuk is convinced that establishing the Day of the Apostle Andrew the First-Called as a public holiday will contribute to the popularization of knowledge about the ancient history of Ukraine and its Christian roots, support national traditions and customs, and honor the historical role of the apostle in state-building and spiritual processes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People&#8217;s Deputy Oksana Savchuk proposes to establish a public holiday in Ukraine &#8211; the Day of the Apostle Andrew the First-Called, which will be celebrated every year on November 30. This is stated on the website of the Verkhovna Rada. \u201cIn the conditions of a full-scale war for the independence and identity of the Ukrainian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1005153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875,76878],"class_list":["post-1330171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1330171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1005153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}