“In the contemporary world a family as an institution passes through tremendous attacks of new gender ideologies of a totalitarian type – ideologies which undermine the very existence of a family, minimize its sense and values, the core of what is respect for human dignity and human’s life from conception to their natural death,” the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches said in a statement. “These global challenges in Ukraine gain a form of systematic attacks directed at destruction of traditional values and roots of morality.”