Russia killing clergy, banning religions in occupied Ukraine, says foreign minister January 13, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, War in Ukraine, World News Since the start of their February 2022 full-scale invasion, Russian forces have killed close to 70 clergy and destroyed more than 630 places of worship in Ukraine, according to Ukraine’s ministry of foreign affairs.
Religious freedom ‘getting worse’ in Russia, Belarus and central Asia, says expert January 3, 2025By Gina Christian Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, War in Ukraine, World News OSV News recently spoke with researcher Felix Corley of Forum 18 — a news service that partners with the Norwegian Helsinki Committee in defending freedom of religion, thought and conscience — on religious freedom in Russia, Belarus, occupied Ukraine and other nations in the region.
Pope condemns ‘hypocrisy’ of exalting peace while waging war December 23, 2024By Justin McLellan OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News Pope Francis sharply criticized the global “hypocrisy” of nations advocating for peace while profiting from war, calling for renewed efforts toward dialogue and reconciliation.
Papal charity point man driving to Ukraine for Christmas December 20, 2024By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News For Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the papal almoner, driving home for Christmas means taking a different route each year. In 2024, he marks his second Christmas in war-torn Ukraine.
Pope says there’s no religious justification for Russia’s war on Ukraine December 16, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News In a letter to his nuncio in Russia, Pope Francis called out those who would claim Russia’s war on Ukraine had any spiritual justification.
Nuns, children almost killed in Russia’s St. Nicholas Day attack on Zaporizhzhia December 12, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: News, War in Ukraine, World News Basilan Sisters and some 80 children in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia narrowly avoided being killed in a deadly Dec. 6 strike by Russia, as they celebrated a liturgy marking the feast of St. Nicholas.
Gudziak: Russia’s war on Ukraine undermines global, nuclear security December 10, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: News, War in Ukraine, World News Russia’s war on Ukraine undermines global security, while standing to encourage nuclear proliferation, Archbishop Borys A. Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia told OSV News.
Broglio: Ukraine’s 1994 nuclear disarmament a ‘truly prophetic gesture’ marred by war December 5, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: News, War in Ukraine, World News Ukraine’s 1994 unilateral nuclear disarmament was “a truly prophetic gesture in favor of global peace,” although Russia has long since abandoned its pledge at the time to honor Ukraine’s sovereignty, said the head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Ukrainian art therapist helps people traumatized by the war that took her son December 4, 2024By Maryann Gogniat Eidemiller OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, War in Ukraine, World News Artist and psychologist Tetiana Myalkovska of Ukraine used her art therapy techniques to work with children who have special needs and with her country’s traumatized soldiers returning from the conflict when Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014.
Ceasefire, dialogue are the only paths to peace, pope says December 2, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News Pope Francis praised a new ceasefire reached in Lebanon, prayed for Israeli hostages and Palestinians in Gaza, and appealed to world leaders to help put an end to the war in Ukraine.
Archbishop Gudziak: Ukraine remembers Soviet-era genocide amid ‘new genocidal war’ November 25, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: News, War in Ukraine, World News The Ukrainian global community is marking the 91st anniversary of a Soviet-era genocide, even “as a new genocidal war is being perpetrated against Ukraine and its people,” said Metropolitan Archbishop Borys A. Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia.
Pope condemns ‘arrogance of invaders’ in Ukraine and Palestine November 25, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News The “arrogance” of the invaders attacking Ukraine and Palestine blocks the dialogue necessary to build peace in those countries, Pope Francis said.
