Despite the danger, a Brazilian missionary priest has stayed in Ukraine since the beginning of the war. Fr Lucas Perozzi thanks ACN for the help it keeps providing, and remains committed to spreading the Gospel. Fr Lucas Perozzi found himself in Ukraine when Russia began its full-scale assault on the [...]
No fewer than 182 young men from many different parts of Ukraine are currently training for the priesthood at the Greek Catholic seminary in Ivano-Frankivsk. For the first six months of the war the seminary was used as emergency accommodation for 200 women refugees and their children, while the seminarians [...]
During his visit to the international headquarters of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Bishop Pavlo Honcharuk of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhzhia spoke with the charity about the situation on the ground. During the discussion the bishop, who leads one of the largest dioceses in Europe, highlighted [...]
The head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, delivered a powerful message of hope during the Mass celebrated for the persecuted Church at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York, organized by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) to raise awareness about the plight of Ukraine. Despite the tragedy faced [...]
24 February 2024 marked the second anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Like the whole population, the seminarians are exhausted by this war. But uplifted by hope, they want to be a sign of God's presence where they are. The seminarians, scarred by the war but matured by their [...]
On International Women’s Day, 8 March, ACN highlights brave wives, sisters, mothers and religious who are helping keep faith and hope alive in war-torn Ukraine. The war in Ukraine is not only an assault on an independent nation, struggling to survive, it is also a war against the family, as [...]
Testimony of Albertine Brother Bernard Jerzy Czarnucha “My name is Br. Bernard from the Congregation of Brother Albert. Our shelter in Lviv has existed for six years. The Albertine Brothers are like emergency personnel, first aid. The man on the street, under stress, someone who is freezing, someone very hungry, [...]
In the run-up to the second anniversary of the war in Ukraine, one of the country’s most senior Catholic leaders has described how the Church is overwhelmed with the task of supporting families tormented and broken by the conflict. Speaking at a conference organised by Aid to the Church in [...]
The head of the Catholic Church in Ukraine met with Aid to the Church in Need to discuss the challenges the country faces. Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the largest Catholic Church in Ukraine, met with representatives of international foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), on the [...]
A bishop in Ukraine has decried the destruction of thousands of euros worth of humanitarian aid by a drone strike on Lviv as an attack on the most vulnerable. Bishop Edward Kawa, Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv, told Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) that the drone strike on the [...]
