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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News
The Catholic Church should focus on promoting active nonviolence, rather than refining just war theory as conflicts continue to flare up around the world and threaten peace, U.S. Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego said.
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OSV News
Filed Under: News, Vocations, War in Ukraine, World News
A consecrated virgin in Ukraine told OSV News she is grateful for her vocation, which enables her to “give all, day and night,” to those impoverished by Russia’s decade-long war against her nation.
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OSV News
Filed Under: News, War in Ukraine, World News
During a September visit to Ukraine, OSV News sat down with Bishop Stepan Meniok, a Redemptorist and bishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church’s Donetsk Exarchate.
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OSV News
Filed Under: News, War in Ukraine, World News
A Ukrainian Catholic University student and all but one member of her immediate family were among those killed in a Sept. 4 strike by Russia on the western Ukrainian city of Lviv.
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OSV News
Filed Under: News, War in Ukraine, World News
Redemptorist Father Bohdan Geleta reflected on his experiences in an hourlong interview with host Taras Babenchuk that aired Aug. 20 on Zhyve TV, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church’s television channel.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News
“Please, let no Christian church be abolished directly or indirectly: the churches are not to be touched,” Pope Francis said about a Ukrainian law banning the Russian Orthodox Church, which President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed Aug. 24, Ukrainian independence day.
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OSV News
Filed Under: News, War in Ukraine, World News
The largest organization of religious leaders in Ukraine is backing a proposal by that nation’s president — approved by Ukrainian lawmakers Aug. 20 — to ban the Russian Orthodox Church and its affiliates, which have openly supported Russia’s decade-long war on Ukraine.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Disaster Relief, Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News
As the world commemorates World Humanitarian Day 2024, the latest figures on the dire circumstances aid workers face on the frontline highlight the alarming increase in attacks against them and their work to relieve the suffering of civilians caught in the crossfire.
