Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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OSV News
Filed Under: News, War in Ukraine, World News
As Ukraine marks the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishops are affirming Ukrainians’ belief in “the triumph of God’s truth” — and the recognition that “true peace cannot exist without justice.”
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OSV News
Filed Under: News, War in Ukraine, World News
As the full-scale Russian invasion in Ukraine reached a tragic threshold of three years Feb. 24, religious sisters are bringing rays of sunshine to those who don’t know how to smile anymore, including children whose carefree childhood disappeared, and farmers, whose fields are mined and useless.
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Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News
As the war in Ukraine reaches the tragic threshold of three years, OSV News is profiling Catholics who have become quiet heroes of help, perseverance and faith amid the nightmare of a full-scale Russian invasion.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News
Hope in Christ and that God’s truth will prevail amid Russia’s war on Ukraine was the message that Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the patriarchal head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, shared time and again during his Feb. 15-21 Jubilee Year pastoral visit to the United States.
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OSV News
Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, War in Ukraine, World News
Major Archbishop Shevchuk shared his thoughts on justice, peace, hope and evangelization amid the war, which has been declared a genocide in two joint reports from the New Lines Institute and the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News
An annual collection for the Catholic Church in nations once under Soviet control is “ever more urgent,” especially as Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine enters its fourth year — and as the church still works to rebuild in nations scarred by decades of communism, said Bishop Gerald L. Vincke of Salina, Kan.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Knights of Columbus, News, War in Ukraine, World News
As the third anniversary of the war in Ukraine approaches Feb. 24, the Knights of Columbus called for prayers ” for hope for Ukraine” and launched a novena Feb. 15 to pray for widows, youth, orphans, veterans and all those affected by the full-scale Russian invasion.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference, War in Ukraine
Those responsible for devising U.S. foreign policy should recognize how that train wreck helps define Russia’s ongoing assault on Ukraine, even as it conditions any resolution of the war worthy of the name “peace.”
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News
s Russia sent a barrage of rockets to Ukraine over the weekend of Feb. 1-2, a bishop living in an eastern Ukraine diocese on the front lines of war said such events make hope “rather waning” for his people.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News
Forgiving others is never easy, and it is even more difficult in a situation of war, but it is essential, Pope Francis told Ukrainian young adults.
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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.
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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.
