United with the Catholics in Ukraine who are under attack

Belarusian Bishops express solidarity with Ukraine

The Belarusian Catholic Church stands in solidarity with Ukraine while pleading for Belarus not to take an active part in the aggression waged by Russia against its neighbour.

Belarusian President, Aleksandr Lukashenko, is a close ally of Vladimir Putin and since the outbreak of the war, on 24 February, Russian troops in Belarus have been allowed passage into Ukraine by Belarusian border guards. Belarus’s air defense and traffic control systems, along with the country’s fueling stations, have also been made available to Moscow.

In a statement released on 3 March, Belarusian Bishops expressed their full support to Pope Francis’s and the Holy See’s ongoing appeals for peace and to the tentative negotiations taking place in Belarus to end hostilities and find ways of reconciliation.
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https://www.vaticannews.va/en/churc...hops-express-solidarity-with-in-ukraine0.html

 

‘Pray for the conversion of Vladimir Putin’ – archbishop Borys Gudziak

The Ukrainian Archbishop of Philadelphia fears that the Russian invasion will again lead to the suppression of Catholicism in Ukraine, worrying that leading Catholic figures are on a “hit list.”

Those watching the situation in Ukraine should “pray, be informed and help” through organizations like Aid to the Church in Need, he said. They should also remember that Vladimir Putin was formed under the KGB and that Russian Orthodoxy has become captive to an ideology of the “Russian world.”

“We pray for the defenders of Ukraine,” Archbishop Borys Gudziak of the Ukrainian Archeparchy of Philadelphia said March 5. “We pray for the people, for the refugees. We pray for the conversion of Vladimir Putin. We pray that as we begin Lent and go through it to your resurrection, we realize that every crucifixion is lived in you.”

His prayer came in an interview via Zoom with George Marlin, chairman of Aid to the Church in Need – USA. Aid to the Church in Need, founded in 1947, is an international Catholic charity that supports both pastoral and humanitarian work. It presently backs more than 5,000 projects in 149 countries, and has been active in Ukraine for 74 years.

The archbishop reflected on the history of Russian involvement in Ukraine.

“Every time there’s a Russian occupation of any part of Ukraine where, for example, the Ukrainian Catholic Church is ministering, the Ukrainian Catholic Church is strangled and eventually rendered illegal and maybe extinguished,” Gudziak told Aid to the Church in Need – USA. “This has happened over almost 250 years. It’s happened at least four times.”

In the present day, Catholics are not alone, he noted: the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Muslims in Crimea, and Jews and Protestants have suffered as well, said the 61-year-old archbishop. Since 2014, the Russian occupation in Crimea and eastern Ukraine has been “devastating” to the churches and other religions.

The latest Russian invasion has prompted further concerns.

“An Orthodox priest has been killed and it is pretty clear that the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, (Archbishop) Sviatoslov Shefchuk is on the hit list,” Gudziak said. “He has been in a safe house. He’s moving around from bomb shelter to bomb shelter in the capital of the country. I think many bishops and priests are in an analogous situation.”

Gudziak has been archbishop in Philadelphia since 2019. He is director of external affairs for the Ukrainian Catholic Church, an Eastern Catholic Church with some 3.6 million members in Ukraine alone.

The archbishop was born in New York to immigrant parents but moved to Kyiv in 1992 and lived for several decades in Ukraine. In his remarks to Aid to the Church in Need, the archbishop discussed the war.

Aid to the Church in Need raised the question of whether holy sites like the Monastery of the Caves, which houses may Christian relics, could be destroyed.

“When indiscriminate rocket fire begins, anything can be hit,” Gudziak replied. He cited a report from Archbishop Shevchuk which said intelligence showed that the Russians intended to destroy Kyiv’s 1,000-year-old Church of St. Sophia. The American archbishop described this church as “the symbolic sign of Ukrainian spiritual life and spiritual unity.”

As for Putin, the archbishop worried “the problem is we’re dealing with a ruler who as a young man made a step in a diabolical direction.”

“He became a KGB operative. And in the Soviet Union, working for the KGB was something that was considered unconscionable. I mean, you sold your soul to the Communist system of repression,” he said of Putin. “And he’s been in that mindset for 50 years. He’s explicit about recovering that legacy. He considers that the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century was the collapse of the Soviet Union, and he wants to rebuild an empire of those proportions. And he’s thinking, as Stalin did, well, ‘how many divisions does the Pope have?’”

“The Pope and Christians have spiritual warfare,” the archbishop said.

To the question of the Russian Orthodox Church’s endorsement of the war, Gudziak said that Church is “still in a colonial mindset” that has only strengthened in the last 15 years. This contrasts with most Christian churches which are revisiting their history and the role they might have played in colonization and empire building, “recognizing it has nothing to do with the Gospel and with God’s will.”

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill has developed an “ideological construct” of the “Russian world” which treats any lands that had been part of the Russian empire as part of his Church’s canonical territory. These lands are where the Russian Orthodox Church must guide society and have an impact. In Gudziak’s view, Putin has taken this concept of the “Russian world” for his own purposes.

“This is really scandalous,” said Gudziak. “The Patriarch, and his main spokesman, Metropolitan Hilarion, the head of the Department of External Church Affairs, are not able to speak truth to power. They are not able to speak out clearly in defense of the orphans and widows that are being multiplied. They don’t defend the schools and universities and hospitals that are being destroyed. It’s a major problem. It’s a major problem for the Russian Orthodox Church and for Russian society.”

“This is not a war that Russia is waging because NATO was threatening Ukraine. Ukraine, of course, is not threatening Russia,” he said. He cited Ukraine’s surrender of its nuclear arsenal for guarantees of territorial integrity from Russia, the U.K., and the U.S. It had reduced its army from 900,000 in 1991 to 6,000 in 2014.

“Ukraine was not a threat. The real threat is the democracy, the spirit, the freedom of the press, the civic society that developed in Ukraine,” the archbishop said. “That virus, if it passed to Russia, would create great danger to an autocracy, a kleptocratic oligarchy, which Putin runs and is fostering. And he wants that kind of system globally.”

As Gudziak sees the world, this kind of system is in place in China and Venezuela. He noted that Putin is supporting “authoritarian tendencies” and has shown friendliness towards Indian Prime Minister Modi and Brazil’s President Bolsonaro.

“Putin is not a defender of traditional values,” Gudziak added. He pointed to Russia’s extremely high abortion rate and “astronomic” rates of alcoholism, divorce, and corruption.

“These spiritual, moral indicators are much better in secular Netherlands than they are in Russia,” he said.

Gudziak discussed the world’s reaction to the Russian invasion and welcomed prayers and Church outreach to refugees.

“The Catholic Church in Poland has taken a prophetic stance and is leading all of Polish society in receiving the refugees … they’re being received very warmly, very generously,” he said.

The archbishop also stressed the need to pray.

“We’re very grateful that Churches throughout the world are praying and prayer is very important,” he said. “Prayer brought the Soviet Union down. It wasn’t a war, it wasn’t an army. It was the blood of martyrs, God’s Grace and years of prayer and the kind of work that Aid to the Church in Need did, educating people and calling people to pray for the fall of communism.”

“We saw the incredible power of a tyranny of a totalitarian state armed to his teeth with nuclear weapons, with limitless resources for repression, (yet) that Soviet Union was not able to snuff out the Church,” the archbishop continued. “The Ukrainian Catholic Church was reduced from 3000 priests to 300. Those 300 priests in the end were serving only 1% of the pre-World War II population because in the underground you can’t have big gatherings and today [the Church] has 3000 priests. Again, we see that authoritarian powers can do great damage to Christians, to Catholics—China is an example today—but the Church will prevail.”

“We have prayer, we have grace, and we can see that morally Ukraine has won this war. The whole world is united today around Ukraine,” he said. The war “united a fractured Europe” and brought together North Atlantic partners.

“This moral foundation is what the Church works with, what Jesus preaches, what is God’s will for us, and it prevails, but it often entails great suffering,” Gudziak continued. Despite the “excruciating suffering” and the “crucifixion” of these Christians, he said, “there will be an Easter.”

“God is the Lord of history. And for over 2,000 years, beginning with Golgotha, beginning with the emperors of Rome and tyrants, for 2,000 years there’s been countless attempts to destroy the Church and kill Christians. But the faith lives. It’s passed on and the Church prevails,” he said.

The archbishop asked the faithful to “pray that the walls of Jericho will fall in front of prayer.”

He encouraged generous gifts to Aid to the Church in Need.

“This is an organization that knows how to help. It knows where to help. It does it in the name of Jesus,” he said. “It helps the Church in need globally, and it will effectively help the Churches in Ukraine.”​

https://ucu.edu.ua/en/news/pray-for...ainian-archbishop-reacts-to-russian-invasion/



Maybe it's time for us to question the credibility of some shady websites overly concerned with alleged "biotech labs" and tiny "neo-Nazi" minorities that unfortunately exist everywhere and worry about facts reported by our Catholic brothers suffering the pains of this vile and unjust Russian aggression.

 

·10 Mar·2 min read | https://www.exaudi.org/mariupol-it-is-hell-there/
Mariupol: ‘It is Hell There’
Port on Azov Sea Besieged by Russian Troops

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Mariupol: “It is hell there”. According to its own reports, the Russian army on Tuesday, March 8, put in place a new ceasefire in Ukraine and has opened “humanitarian corridors” for five cities. One of them is Mariupol, a port on the Azov Sea which is besieged by Russian troops. There have already been four attempts to evacuate the city, and many people were able to leave at the weekend.



The foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has long-term partners in Mariupol, including the Pauline Fathers. Since 3 March ACN had not heard from them. Only on Sunday did one of the priests, Fr Pavlo, get in touch. They came out of Mariupol on Saturday evening in a convoy of 100 cars. They are still on the road and haven’t yet now arrived in a safer place. However, the priests have lived through an inferno. The foundation would like to share this testimony from Fr Pavlo, to encourage people to pray for, and help, people in the war area.

“Mariupol is like Armageddon. It is hell. Please tell the world: it is a tragedy. There is just shooting at random. The whole town is like one big battlefield. Everywhere bombs are falling. Everywhere you just hear shooting. Mariupol is a city surrounded by the Russian army. The people are just sitting in their basements.”



“We could hardly sleep. Nobody could sleep. Our whole bodies ached from all the bomb attacks. I had set up a shelter in a corner – that was where I lived, so to speak. We were all scared. Our monastery was being built with the help of Aid to the Church in Need and the building was not yet complete. Unfortunately, we had no basement. Recently we also had no electricity, no water and nothing to eat…only the supplies which we had brought with us. For two days I just had a tin: when you are going through something like this, you don’t feel hungry. You can survive without food, but not without water. People left their houses looking for water, and as a result many of them died brutal deaths. Walking in the street in Mariupol amounted to suicide. We said to the faithful that they should stay at home and that we would not celebrate any Masses, because it was too dangerous.”

On Saturday we formed a convoy of 100 cars and wanted to leave the city. The soldiers at all the checkpoints let us through until the separatists from the so-called Republic of Donetsk stopped us. We weren’t allowed to go any further, but they let us seek refuge in a little village. After that there were more detours. We had pregnant women and children with us. I can’t forget the picture of a pregnant woman on her knees, begging the separatists to let us through, but they refused.”

“You can’t imagine all the things we saw out there. They’re pictures you can’t forget: all over the place everything destroyed by bombs, and sometimes having to drive around bodies which were lying in the way. This tragedy cries to heaven!”

“We are now out of the city. Everyone tried to save their own life and get to a safe place, but what happens to the people who can’t and are still in Mariupol? With many people we have no contact: we have no idea where they are and who is still alive. Mariupol is a city surrounded by the Russian army. Dear God, when will this whole thing end? Pray for us.”

 

Our Lady of Fatima shrines asked to join in prayer for conversion of Russia

Our Lady of Fatima. | Ricardo Perna / Shutterstock.

By CNA Staff | https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/...ed-to-join-in-prayer-for-conversion-of-russia

Krisovychi, Ukraine, Mar 11, 2022 / 04:25 am

Our Lady of Fatima shrines worldwide are being asked to unite in prayer for the conversion of Russia on Sunday.

The appeal was made by Father Andrzej Draws, rector of the Sanctuary of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Fatima in Krisovychi, western Ukraine, following the full-scale Russian invasion of the country on Feb. 24.

He has invited all shrines in honor of Our Lady of Fatima to unite in prayer for the conversion of Russia on March 13.

The appeal comes after Ukraine’s Latin Rite Catholic bishops asked Pope Francis to consecrate Ukraine and Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

In a letter to the pope, the Ukrainian bishops said that they were writing “in these hours of immeasurable pain and terrible ordeal for our people” in response to many requests for the consecration.

“Responding to this prayer, we humbly ask Your Holiness to publicly perform the act of consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary of Ukraine and Russia, as requested by the Blessed Virgin in Fatima,” said the letter, published on the bishops’ website on Ash Wednesday, March 2.

During the Fatima apparitions in 1917, the Blessed Virgin Mary revealed three secrets.

The second secret was a statement that World War I would end, and a prediction of another war that would start during the reign of Pius XI if people continued to offend God and Russia was not consecrated to Mary’s Immaculate Heart.

Sister Lucia, one of the three Fatima visionaries, recalled in her memoirs that Our Lady asked for “the Consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart, and the Communion of reparation on the First Saturdays” to prevent a second world war.

She said that Mary told her: “If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred; the Holy Father will have much to suffer; various nations will be annihilated.”

“In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, and she shall be converted, and a period of peace will be granted to the world."

In a letter written in 1989, Sister Lucia confirmed that Pope John Paul II satisfied Our Lady’s request for Russia’s consecration in 1984. Other authorities, including the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, also have affirmed the consecration was completed to Sister Lucia’s satisfaction.

 

#Diary from Ukraine - March 9, 2022
By an anonymous Ukrainian Catholic journalist, hidden from the Russian invaders




#Diary from Ukraine - March 10, 2022


We will remain united with you in prayer and penance until the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Russia will be converted and there will be peace.

 

Fatima Shrine sends statue of Pilgrim Virgin of Fatima to Ukraine
The request was made by the Greek-Catholic Archbishop of Lviv. The image will depart at the beginning of next week, via Krakow

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The Shrine of Fatima will send statue number 13 of the Pilgrim Virgin of Fatima to Ukraine at the beginning of next week, responding positively to the request of the Greek-Catholic Metropolitan Archbishop of Lviv.

"United in the same spirit of prayer, it is with pleasure that the Shrine of Fatima responds positively to the request to send an image of the Pilgrim Virgin of Fatima" states the letter sent by the Shrine this Friday, in which it explains that the displacement of this image to the Ukrainian territory, which happens for the first time, is due to this pastoral effort of prayer for peace in the world, especially in Ukraine.

The immediate response of the Shrine follows a formal request from the Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Greek-Catholic Church of Lviv, Ihor Vozniak, made on March 10: "We ask that you send us the statue of the Pilgrim Virgin of Fatima to Ukraine so that we may pray for her protection so that peace may return to the country.

The Rector of the Shrine, during his homily at the Mass he presided over this morning in the Basilica of the Most Holy Trinity, recalled that "Mary is always close to the cross of each one of us and because Mary is our mother, in her maternal heart we find refuge in moments of difficulty and we find help to combat our discouragement."

"Because she is our mother, overshadowed by the terror of war, we turn to her so that through her intercession with her son she may restore peace to us," he added, stressing that it was this "same trust that led to the request of the Greek-Catholic community of Lviv to ask the Shrine to send an image of the Pilgrim Virgin of Fatima, to which the Shrine immediately responded.

"Our Lady here in Fatima insistently asked us to pray for peace; it is this prayer that we pray daily here that will be present in the prayer of all Ukrainians before the statue of the Pilgrim Virgin of Fatima", Father Carlos Cabecinhas further reminded, underlining the pastoral mission of prayer for peace that the Pilgrim MTA will accomplish in Ukraine.

The image, which will remain in the Ukraine for a month, will depart from Lisbon to Krakow, Poland, and there it will be welcomed and transported by the Greek-Catholic community of Lviv.

The image number 13 is a replica of the image number 1, designed and conceived according to the instructions of the Servant of God, Sister Lucy of Jesus and solemnly crowned by the Archbishop of Evora on May 13, 1947.

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https://www.fatima.pt/pt/news/santuario-envia-imagem-da-virgem-peregrina-de-fatima-para-a-ucrania

 

This is wonderful.

 

This is a real step in the right direction, hopefully toward the Consecration of Russia by the Pope.

 

Head of Catholic Church in Ukraine says "In Ukraine we truly see mountains of corpses, rivers of blood, and seas of tears" as Death Toll Reaches Over 1,500

Let us pray today for those who did not hear the church bells, which were unburied and laid in mass graves. Let us pray for those over whom Christian funeral prayer has not been said. Let us show our mercy to the bodies of the dead and thus preserve the person, human dignity in Ukraine! His Beatitude Sviatoslav, the Father and Head of the UGCC, called for this in his daily military address on the 17th day of the war.
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https://www.catholicnewsworld.com/2022/03/head-of-catholic-church-in-ukraine-says_12.html

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#Diary from Ukraine - March 11, 2022
By an anonymous Ukrainian Catholic journalist, hidden from the Russian invaders



We will remain united with you in prayer and penance until the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Russia will be converted and there will be peace.

 

Glory to Jesus Christ! Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ! Today is Sunday 13 March 2022 and Ukraine is experiencing already the eighteenth day of this horrific war.

Thanks to the amazing bravery of our army, Ukrainians were able to stop the enemy almost in every direction. We feel a certain kind of temporary calm in Ukraine, particularly on this Sunday. However, the most terrifying moments are during the night in Ukraine, because during the night the enemy shoots at peaceful cities, inflicts irreparable damage to infrastructure, and even kills the peaceful population.

During this night we saw horrible images. There was a bombing of the Sviatohirsk Lavra, an important monastery of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in the Donetsk region. There were many people there, including refugees. Churches are smashed and destroyed. Our cities all over Ukraine burn during the night.

The Ukrainian government informs us that the enemy is using various weapons that are banned by international conventions. Last night over Popasna in the Donetsk region white phosphorus munitions were used, which inflict heavy wounds on the peaceful population. The night in Ukraine was full of anxiety and difficulty. But then there was morning, Sunday morning.

This Sunday morning we stand before the face of God and pray. We pray for Ukraine, we pray for the Ukrainian military, we pray for all those who have suffered because of this war, we pray for our enemies who came to our land and sow devastation, sow death, sow fear, sow great mutilation.

We know that now, during the time of Great Lent, our people have a great need for the Mystery of Confession. Great Lent is a time of repentance, a time when we Christians rush to this holy mystery of God’s mercy to acknowledge our sins, to receive from our loving Lord the forgiveness of our sins and transgressions. All our priests are ready to serve their people. They serve where they are, on the occupied territories, in besieged cities. In all our cities and villages, churches are open almost around the clock in order to serve our people.

People who do not have access to their priest are also approaching us. We know that the Mystery of Confession can be experienced only when the priest is personally present and when there is a personal encounter with the one who, in the name of the Lord our God, has the authority to grant us forgiveness of our sins.

But in circumstance when there is no access to the minister of the Mystery of Repentance, I recall that there is the opportunity to benefit from the forgiveness of sins through a perfect act of contrition. When we repent before the Lord God and regret our sins, not because we fear some kind of punishment but because we feel that we have offended God’s love, we have perfect repentance for our sins when we feel pain for our sins in light of love, the love of God for the human person.

In these extraordinary circumstances, I would like to thank all those who are in solidarity with Ukraine. I would like to thank the Bishops’ Conference of the Catholic Bishops of Scandinavia who clearly and sharply condemned the aggressor and the aggression against Ukraine and support our Ukrainian people.

I would like to thank the Eastern Patriarchs, the Melkite Patriarch from Syria and the Chaldean Patriarch from Iraq, who expressed their support for our Church and our nation.

We pray for our Ukraine! We fight for our freedom! And we ask: O Lord, receive our prayer! Grant Ukraine peace! Grant Ukraine victory! Grant Ukraine peaceful skies and life to her people!

May the blessing of the Lord be upon you through His grace and love for humankind, always, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.

Glory to Jesus Christ!​

http://news.ugcc.ua/en/articles/video_message_of_his_beatitude_sviatoslav_march_13_2022_96033.html


The 5th and 6th paragraph are really interesting. If I understand correctly, in this Lent, non-Catholic Christians are turning to Catholic priests for the sacrament of confession, when face-to-face contact with their own priests is not possible because of the war. I don't usually quote Pope Francis a lot because I find his teachings very confusing if not wrong, but he has a good expression that can perfectly apply to this situation: "ecumenism of blood".

This seems like a first step on the path of conversion of the schismatic orthodox to Catholicism, the true conversion of Russia starting in Ukraine.

 

I thought this was also very powerful reminder that I believe also holds true in the Roman rite. While I would encourage all to get to a priest now as soon as possible for confession, this may be the only course in future when access to priests will be cut off… . True and full contrition in front of the Lord.

 

Our Mother asks us to pray for Russia, she did not ask for the destruction of Russia.

 

This is not my text, I just shared it because I understand that it may be of interest. In any case, we should not confuse Putinism with Russia, they are two different things. And I don't want the physical destruction of Vladimir Putin or anyone else, his conversion would suffice.

 

#Diary from Ukraine - March 11, 2022
By an anonymous Ukrainian Catholic journalist, hidden from the Russian invaders



We will remain united with you in prayer and penance until the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Russia will be converted and there will be peace.

 

#Diary from Ukraine - March 13, 2022
By an anonymous Ukrainian Catholic journalist, hidden from the Russian invaders



We will remain united with you in prayer and penance until the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Russia will be converted and there will be peace.

 

#Diary from Ukraine - March 14, 2022
By an anonymous Ukrainian Catholic journalist, hidden from the Russian invaders



#Diary from Ukraine - March 15, 2022



We will remain united with you in prayer and penance until the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Russia will be converted and there will be peace.

 

Theologians from different countries and continents strongly condemned Russia's military aggression against Ukraine

We, theologians from different countries and continents, express our full solidarity with the appeals of the Christian Churches in Ukraine to stop the Russian military aggression against their country. We condemn this war against the sovereign state of Ukraine in the strongest possible terms. This unprovoked attack that has already cost thousands of lives can have no justification. It will cost many more human tragedies if continued. It is a crime against international law, against human rights, against freedom, and against humanity. The attack on Ukraine is an attack on the very foundations of a human civilization nourished by the moral guidance of Christianity and other world religions. All those responsible for this act of war must be named by name and brought to justice.

We stand with the people of Ukraine in this tragic moment of their history and ask people in the whole world to pray with us for Ukraine and Ukrainians. We also ask to pray for the people of Russia: both for those of them who have the courage to stand against evil, and for those who have been brainwashed by the vicious propaganda spread by the media machine of their state and turned into instruments of the criminal activity of their leader. We urge all world leaders who respect freedom, human dignity, and democratic principles to exert the toughest possible pressure on the Kremlin to stop this war immediately and to withdraw all its troops from Ukrainian territory. We urge all religious leaders in Russia to speak a clear word of condemnation of the unjust and criminal war and the suffering their state has brought to the neighboring country and to Europe. We call on all people of good will to support the victims of this aggression. We pray God for peace and justice for Ukraine, Russia, Europe, and the entire world.

We issue this brief and urgent appeal as theologians whose vocation it is to preach the Gospel of truth and justice. We pray that the God of mercy may grant peace and freedom to every human being created in God’s image and likeness, to every family, to every home, and to every nation.

We urge our sisters and brothers from every church, denomination, and religion to add their signature in support of our appeal.

Rev. Prof. Dr. Yury P. Avvakumov, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA

Prof. Dr. Edward J. Alam, Consultor on the Pontifical Council for Culture, Notre Dame University-Louaize, Lebanon

Rev. Prof. Dr. Victor Ronald La Barrera Villareal, CEBITEPAL Biblical Theological Pastoral Center for Latin America of the Latin American Episcopal Council, Bogotá, Columbia

Mons. Prof. Dr. Antonio Luiz Catelan Ferreira, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Auxiliar Bishop of the Archdiocese of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Prof. Dr. John C. Cavadini, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA

Rev. Prof. Dr. Jorge José Ferrer SJ, Pontifical Catholic University, Ponce, Puerto Rico

Rev. Prof. Dr. Simon Francis Gaine OP, Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas “Angelicum,” Rome, Italy

Rev. Prof. Dr. Krzysztof Góźdź, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland

Rev. Prof. Dr. Gaby Alfred Hachem, Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Lebanon

Prof. Dr. Michael Hollerich, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul MN, USA

Prof. Dr. Reinhard Huetter, The Catholic University of America, Washington DC, USA

Rev. Prof. Dr. Marek Jagodziński, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland

Rev. Prof. Dr. Thomas Kollamparampil, Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, Bangalore, India

Rev. Prof. Dr. Mark Morozowich, Dean, School of Theology and Religious Studies, The Catholic University of America, Washington DC, USA

Sr. Prof. Dr. Isabell Naumann ISSM, Catholic Institute of Sydney, Australia

Sr. Prof. Dr. Josée Ngalula, Catholic University of Congo in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Prof. Dr. Thomas Prügl, University of Vienna, Austria

Prof. Dr. Tracey Rowland, University of Notre Dame, Australia

Prof. Dr. Marianne Schlosser, University of Vienna, Austria

Rev. Prof. Dr. Gabino Uríbarri Bilbao SJ, Pontifical University Comillas, Madrid, Spain

Prof. Dr. Robin Darling Young, The Catholic University of America, Washington DC, USA
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http://news.ugcc.ua/en/articles/international_theologians_in_support_of_ukraine_95946.html