Pope Sends New Shipment of Humanitarian Aid to Lebanon and Ukraine
Both war-torn countries will receive essential medications, and Ukraine will receive other needed items, including food and clothing.
Both war-torn countries will receive essential medications, and Ukraine will receive other needed items, including food and clothing.
COMMENTARY: What Stalin began in Lviv in 1946 — an attempt to liquidate a Church — persists today in Putin’s war on Ukraine.
‘We can say that, thanks to God, thanks to our faith, we have a strong foundation,’ Bishop Pavlo Honcharuk said.
COMMENTARY: Ukrainian Catholic leaders warn that priests have been expelled, churches destroyed, and religious life driven underground in Russian-occupied territories.
Responding to a question from EWTN News, the Pope said that progress on the repatriation of abducted Ukrainian children was ‘very slow, unfortunately,’ but he declined to comment further on the matter.
Speaking at The Catholic University of America, the Ukrainian Catholic archbishop urged world leaders to weigh both “the cost of the war and the cost of the peace.”
COMMENTARY: What does an Augustinian approach to war and peace suggest about peace in Ukraine?
The Pope’s message came two days after he called for a worldwide day of fasting and prayer for peace, coinciding with the feast of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The Pontiff spoke with journalists waiting outside the papal residence at Castel Gandolfo before returning to Rome to discuss the conflict in the heart of Europe.
Archbishop Visvaldas Kulbokas explains why true peace must be just, and how prayer sustains Ukraine amid war.
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