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New ‘Catholic bloc’ in Brazil’s Senate seen as effort to counter Evangelical influence

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk

(Credit: Vatican Media.)

Breaking with Ukraine Catholics, Pope rejects ban on Russian-backed church

Aug 26
Crux Staff

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk on Aug. 20, 2024. (Credit: UGCC.)

Ukraine Major Archbishop says new law against Russian Church is not unjust

Aug 22
Crux Staff

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk speaks at the National Museum of the Holodomor-genocide in Kyiv on July 23, 2024. (Credit: Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church.)

Major Archbishop says all Ukrainians should remember the Holodomor genocide

Jul 25
Charles Collins

Vatican Secretary of State Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Top Vatican diplomat makes first visit to Ukraine since war

Jul 20
Elise Ann Allen

Ukrainian national guard servicemen from the Khartia Brigade fly a “vampire” drone while bombing Russian positions at the front line near Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, May 17, 2024. (Credit: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP.)

Major Archbishop Shevchuk says Ukraine’s freedom is essential for religious freedom

Jun 19
Crux Staff

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian teenager Bohdan Yermokhin, right, holds the Ukraine flag on the Ukraine-Belarus border in Ukraine, Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023. The orphaned Ukrainian teenager was taken to Russia last year during the war in his country and has now returned home after being reunited with relatives in Belarus on his 18th birthday Sunday. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Major Archbishop says Russia using ‘diabolical tactics’ against Ukraine

Apr 9
Charles Collins

People clear the debris in their apartments at the site of Russia's attack in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, March 22, 2024. (Credit: Andriy Andriyenko/AP.)

Major Archbishop Shevchuk says peace agreement in Ukraine ‘impossible’

Mar 26
Crux Staff

People wave Ukrainian flags before Pope Francis's noontime Angelus prayer from the window of his studio over looking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Sunday, March 10, 2024. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.)

Pope faces civil, ecclesial backlash for Ukraine ‘white flag’ remarks

Mar 11
Elise Ann Allen

His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the major archbishop of Kyiv-Galicia, Ukraine and head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, preeches in Washington, DC. (Credit: Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.)

Head of Ukrainian church warns against ‘burnt out’ feeling during war

Mar 5
John Lavenburg

Cardinal Konrad Krajewski prays at a mass grave in Izyum, Ukraine, on Sept. 19, 2022. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Vatican, Ukraine church leaders reflect on two years of war

Feb 24
Elise Ann Allen