On the first anniversary of the war in Ukraine, bishops in the country have expressed their gratitude for the help provided by a Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) over the last 12 months. ACN has supported 292 vital projects in Ukraine since the Russian offensive started on 24th [...]
Aid to the Church in Need benefactors contributed to over 290 different projects all over Ukraine, including Latin and Greek Catholic dioceses. A large part of this aid supports those who are dedicated to working with the most needy, thereby benefitting countless others. When Russian troops began a full-scale invasion [...]
Marking nearly one full year of conflict in Russia’s war in Ukraine, the leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church said that the prayers, solidarity, and material support to Ukraine are helping to give his people hope. “It’s a miracle we are still alive,” Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk told reporters [...]
More than eleven months of war in Ukraine have left huge numbers of men, women and children living in desperate need of help. This winter is set to be the hardest in living memory for millions of people in Ukraine. Missile strikes and intense heavy bombing have been devastating towns [...]
Kharkiv is Ukraine’s second largest city and - right now - one of the worst hit in the war. Priests and volunteers there have become accustomed to daily sorting of food, clothing, hygiene products, and other essentials for the thousands of people who come to the cathedral for aid, from [...]
The Catholic Church in Ukraine is committed to the continued streams of hundreds of people who knock every day at the doors of its parishes, convents, monasteries and seminaries in search of shelter and physical and spiritual nourishment. The Church wants to be a refuge of hope for those who [...]
The Pallottine Fathers have been working in Western Ukraine since 1993. They run two parishes, in Bilohirja and in Yampol. The parish of Bilohirja also has a children’s home which is run by religious sisters. Once the war began on 24 February 2022, their work has multiplied enormously. Since then, [...]
The situation in Kiev is getting worse and worse . At this time, a very long military convoy, more than 60 kilometers long, is heading towards the Ukrainian capital. As the city comes under intensifying fire, priests and their parishioners hold out in bunkers and bomb shelters. In many bunkers [...]
Stradch is a small village of 3,000 people, located around 25 kilometres from Lviv, in Ukraine. The village is home to a Marianshrine and is also where Fr Mykola Konrad and lay catechist Volodymyr Pryjma were martyred. Last October, the Archbishop of Lviv consecrated the newly built Pilgrim House. From [...]
Kharkiv is a huge city, with a population of 1.7 million before the war, and now only about 20 km from the front line. War has a dramatic effect on people’s lives, and as this conflict completes its sixth month, the scale of the loss and destruction in Ukraine continues to [...]
