The presidents of COMECE (the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the EU) and the Conference of European Churches (a fellowship of over 100 Orthodox and Protestant communities) have issued a joint appeal for a week-long Easter truce in Ukraine.

Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, SJ, and Rev. Christian Krieger, who had issued an earlier joint peace appeal, also sent a letter to Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, asking him to support their call for an Easter ceasefire.