Ukraine religious leaders call for return of POWS, criticize ‘referendums’
Religious leaders in Ukraine called for safe return of prisoners of war, civilian hostages and all those who were forcibly taken to Russia.
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by bcadmin | Sep 27, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, News, Orthodox Church in Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Ukrainian Catholic Church, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church | 0 |
Religious leaders in Ukraine called for safe return of prisoners of war, civilian hostages and all those who were forcibly taken to Russia.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 12, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, lead, News, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Ukrainian Catholic Church, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church | 0 |
Ukrainian bishops backed U.N. reports that civilians are being forcibly deported from Russian-occupied areas of their country, recalling scenes from earlier decades.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 4, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Catholic school, Church in the US, Michigan, News, Ukraine Crisis, Ukrainian Catholic Church | 0 |
This fall, approximately 100 students from war-torn Ukraine will join the school, which in a normal year has an enrollment of about 200 students.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 1, 2022 | Church in Europe, lead, News, Nuclear Power, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Ukrainian Catholic Church | 0 |
Jan Sobiło, auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhzhia, says people are worried about the situation at Europe’s largest nuclear facility.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 21, 2022 | Byzantine rite, Divine Liturgy, Eastern Catholicism, News, The Dispatch, Ukrainian Catholic Church | 0 |
It is easy to forget that the Catholic Church is composed of 24 self-governing Churches with distinct liturgical rites. We lose sight of this because the Latin Church, which worships according to the Roman Rite, […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 11, 2022 | Archbishop Paul Gallagher, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, News, Poland, Ukraine Crisis, Ukrainian Catholic Church | 0 |
Prevented by war from meeting in Kyiv, 40 Ukrainian Catholic bishops from around the world met in Poland, less than 10 miles from the border with their homeland, in early July.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 24, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in the US, Easter, News, Orthodox Christians, Ukraine Crisis, Ukrainian Catholic Church | 0 |
The rituals leading up to Easter are the same. The solemn Good Friday processions. The Holy Saturday blessings of foods that were avoided during Lent. The liturgies accompanied by processions, bells and chants.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 17, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Holy Week, News, The Catholic University of America, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Ukraine Crisis, Ukrainian Catholic Church | 0 |
For Lydia Korostelova, Russia’s brutal invasion of her native Ukraine has hit home in ways she could never have imagined.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 6, 2022 | lead, News, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Ukrainian Catholic Church, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church | 0 |
The obvious signs of war crimes committed by Russian forces in Bucha and other Ukrainian cities led members of the Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religions to call Russia a “terrorist state”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 6, 2022 | Father Pawliszcse, krakow, News, Polish-Ukrainian border, Russian soldiers, Sister Lubomira Chaban, U.S. & World News, Ukrainian Catholic Church | 0 |
They arrive with searing memories: the bombing of schools, theaters and hospitals; unburied bodies in the street; children huddled with their mothers in crowded basements; rumors of Russian soldiers committing “assaults” against women, a common euphemism for rape.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 1, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, lead, News, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Ukrainian Catholic Church | 0 |
A bishop in Ukraine accused Russian forces of deliberately targeting aid centers and of destroying the port of Mariupol to scare other cities into surrendering.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 30, 2022 | Archbishop Shevchuk, Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Eastern-rite, Kyiv, News, Russia, U.S. & World News, Ukraine, Ukrainian Catholic Church, Zoom | 0 |
With his voice often trembling and tears sliding down to his beard, the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church spoke via Zoom about the death and destruction Russia is raining down on his people and his country.
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