Although most of the fighting is taking place in Eastern Ukraine, Russian forces have continued to attack the west of the country. Many people, including the priests who oversee the Shrine of our Lady of Rudky, some 50 kilometres outside of Lviv, have learned what it is to lose everything [...]
Three Oblate Fathers oversee the Catholic parish of Chernihiv in Northern Ukraine. Almost immediately after the start of the war by Russia, the city was under siege. For a month it was cut off. Many people were killed in bomb and missile strikes, and large sections of the city [...]
Once again, the National Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Berdychiv, Ukraine was a place of pilgrimage on Sunday, July 17. The threat of bombardments kept most pilgrims away this year, but nonetheless the Latin-rite Ukrainian bishops, accompanied by special guest Archbishop Gintaras Grušas of Vilnius, Lithuania, gathered [...]
AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED (ACN) SPOKE TO BISHOP PAVLO HONCHARUK OF THE LATIN DIOCESE OF KHARKIV- ZAPORIZHZHIA. At more than 77,000 square miles, this is one of the largest dioceses in Europe, comparable to the whole territory of Syria or Belarus, covering almost all of Ukraine’s territory east [...]
The Ukrainian Church is concerned that international humanitarian aid is dwindling just as the savings of many refugees are running dry. Bishop Radoslaw Zmitrowicz calls on the international community to keep supporting Ukraine, and says that prayer is the most important help of all. The Church in Ukraine has been [...]
The project manager for Ukraine of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) reports on the solidarity visit to the war zone. With the outbreak of the war, international Catholic pastoral charity ACN has been centred on providing aid to Ukraine. ACN has been active in this country since 1953 [...]
The international foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is currently giving Mass stipends to support priests in Ukraine who are caring for a population which is besieged and under bombardment. The stipends support almost 1,900 Catholic priests across the country, including 137 from the Greek Catholic archdiocese in [...]
A seminary damaged and ransacked by Russian troops – who stole a chalice given by Pope St John Paul II – plans to re-open its doors this September with help from ACN. Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has announced that it will help rebuild Sacred Heart Seminary in [...]
More than 200 displaced women and children in Ukraine will continue to receive food and shelter – thanks to fresh support from Aid to the Church in Need. Ivano-Frankivsk Archdiocese, western Ukraine – which has been looking after displaced families since the start of the war – turned to Aid [...]
Mgr Pavlo Honcharuk, Bishop of Kharkiv-Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine gave an update to Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) about the situation in Ukraine’s second largest city. Two months after the start of the war, Russian attacks are focusing more on the east and south of Ukraine. Hence, life in Kharkiv, [...]
