Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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