"The WYD teaches us to be tolerant and to live like brothers. In Ukraine, there are Roman Catholics and Greek Catholics, members of the Eastern Orthodox Church and Muslims: it is only through common values that we can live together peacefully". This is the belief of Katerina Murashevich, a twenty-year-old girl from a little Ukrainian village, Berdichiv, now living in Kiev, who has come to Cologne to take part in the XX WYD. But, admits the girl, "there are a few problems with the members of the Eastern Orthodox Church of the Patriarchate of Moscow, especially with the older people, but, when there was the revolution in Ukraine, we prayed all together for peace". "I wish I could see more faith in the young", says Anna Kanareykina, a student from Magadan, a little Russian village. "There are a few young people who are really full of faith adds the girl but others find it hard to accept the morality of the Church in their daily life". In Anna’s parish church, the only Catholic one in her city, "many are the boys and girls who come to Sunday Mass and to the Saturday night meetings where we talk of problems concerning the church or the young. One Taizè community sometimes organises a Saturday night adoration. I like their way of praying: I cried when I heard frère Roger had been murdered".
