War in Ukraine

Faith of children, power of prayer combine in million-strong rosary

October 13, 2024
By Gina Christian
OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News, Youth Ministry

On Oct. 18, Aid to the Church in Need will host its annual “One Million Children Praying the Rosary” campaign, inviting children — as well as families, parishes, catechists and teachers — to join in reciting the rosary that day, pledging their intention to do so at ACN’s dedicated website for the initiative, millionchildrenpraying.org.

Pope and Zelenskyy discuss repatriation of Ukrainian captives

October 11, 2024
By Justin McLellan
Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News

Pope Francis and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met for the third time since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, focusing their discussion on the repatriation of Ukrainian nationals held in Russian captivity.

Pope to welcome Ukrainian president back to Vatican

October 9, 2024
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News

Pope Francis will welcome Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy back to the Vatican Oct. 11, four months after their last meeting, the Vatican press office announced.

‘You speak with a heart’ for human dignity, archbishop tells Ukraine’s Zelenskyy

September 30, 2024
By Gina Christian
OSV News Filed Under: News, War in Ukraine, World News

The head of Ukrainian Catholics in the U.S. told OSV News he personally thanked Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for speaking “with a heart” and being “a source of encouragement” worldwide.

Just war theory morally ‘devalued’ in today’s world, U.S. cardinal says

September 30, 2024
By Justin McLellan
Catholic News Service Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, War in Ukraine, World News

The concept of just war, which has guided Catholic teaching on war and peace since the fourth century, has become “devalued as a moral instrument” due to its application in modern conflicts, said Cardinal Robert W. McElroy of San Diego.

‘Peace is only possible if it is wanted,’ Cardinal Parolin tells U.N. assembly

September 30, 2024
By Kimberly Heatherington
OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News

Amid ongoing and potentially escalating conflict in both the Middle East and Ukraine, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin cautioned gathered delegates at the 79th session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York Sept. 28 that, “peace is only possible if it is wanted.”

Stop the wars while there is still time, pope tells Sant’Egidio peace summit in Paris

September 25, 2024
By Caroline de Sury
OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News

For three days, Paris welcomed several thousand participants from around the globe who took part in the 38th “International Meeting for Peace,” organized Sept. 22-24 by the Community of Sant’Egidio.

Gudziak: Ukraine’s struggle against Russia is ‘prophetic defense of God-given dignity’

September 24, 2024
By Gina Christian
OSV News Filed Under: News, War in Ukraine, World News

Ukraine’s struggle against Russia’s war is “prophetic,” showing that “the defense of God-given dignity … happens at the price of one’s body and blood,” said Metropolitan Archbishop Borys A. Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia.

Faith of children, power of prayer combine in million-strong rosary

Pope and Zelenskyy discuss repatriation of Ukrainian captives

Pope to welcome Ukrainian president back to Vatican

‘You speak with a heart’ for human dignity, archbishop tells Ukraine’s Zelenskyy

Just war theory morally ‘devalued’ in today’s world, U.S. cardinal says

‘Peace is only possible if it is wanted,’ Cardinal Parolin tells U.N. assembly

Stop the wars while there is still time, pope tells Sant’Egidio peace summit in Paris

Gudziak: Ukraine’s struggle against Russia is ‘prophetic defense of God-given dignity’

U.S. cardinal: Church should prioritize nonviolence, not ‘just war’

Consecrated virgin ‘gives all, day and night,’ amid Russia’s war in Ukraine

Russian forces fear Ukrainian identity, persecute Ukrainian Catholics, says exiled bishop

Russian strike kills Ukrainian Catholic University student and her family

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