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ROME (CNS) -- With the first anniversary of Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine just days away, the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church spoke about gratitude and powerlessness in the face of a 'blind, absurd, sacrilegious war.' Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, major archbishop of Kyiv-Halych, spoke with a small group of reporters in Rome by Zoom Feb. 20 from Kyiv, a city he has left only a couple of times and only for a few days in the past year. Like many Ukrainians who refuse to leave

With the first anniversary of Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine just days away, the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church spoke about gratitude and powerlessness in the face of a “blind, absurd, sacrilegious war.”

LVIV, Ukraine (CNS) -- The Ukrainian Catholic Archdiocese of Donetsk is demanding the release of two priests it said were arrested illegally in the Russian-occupied city of Berdyansk. In a Nov. 25 statement, it said Father Ivan Levitsky, a hieromonk and rector of the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, and Father Bohdan Geleta, who works at the church, were detained by Russian troops Nov. 16, and the church was illegally searched the following day. The priests' relatives still do

President Biden spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, and the U.S. ordered its diplomats and troops out of Ukraine.

President Biden spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, and the U.S. ordered its diplomats and troops out of Ukraine.