Ukraine Archives

Ukrainian president again asks pope to help with citizens’ release

Jun 10, 2020

In a phone conversation with Pope Francis, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy appealed for help in securing the release of Ukrainian citizens being held in areas occupied by Russian or pro-Russian forces.

By Carol Glatz

With masks and gloves, Ukraine’s priests return to duties

May 31, 2020

As the coronavirus pandemic’s grip slowly recedes in Ukraine, priests received clearance on May 22 to resume religious services and to visit the sick and bereaved.

By Mstyslav Chernov

Ukraine’s Catholic prelates condemn surrogacy as a ‘moral evil’

May 16, 2020

According to the leadership of the Catholic Church in Ukraine, surrogate motherhood allows for “international child trafficking” and they have now urged for the practice to be banned.

By Inés San Martín

Soviet prisoners of conscience petitioned St. John Paul II for help

May 13, 2020

Soviet political prisoners from various backgrounds begged St. John Paul II’s help in secret messages after his 1978 election, according to a former inmate in recollections published for the late pope’s hundredth birthday.

By Jonathan Luxmoore

Ukraine archbishop offers church property for hospitals amid virus spread

Mar 27, 2020

As more cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus are being registered in Ukraine, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church has said that he will lend ecclesial properties as hospitals if the need should arise.

By Elise Ann Allen

Orthodox leader in Jerusalem merits a spot on Catholic radar screen

Feb 28, 2020

On any list of intriguing Christian leaders, a slot somewhere near the top right now would have to be reserved for Theophilus III, officially “His Most Godly Beatitude, the Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and all Palestine, Israel, Syria, Arabia, beyond the Jordan River, Cana of Galilee, and Holy Zion.”

By John L. Allen Jr.