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A top United Nations official said March 6 that the world hasn't seen a refugee crisis such as the one developing in Eastern Europe, caused by Russia's attack on Ukraine, since the last World War.

Pope Francis said the Vatican "is ready to do everything to put itself at the service of peace" in Ukraine.

As Pope Francis and Catholics throughout the world did on Ash Wednesday, March 2, Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory prayed and expressed solidarity with the people of Ukraine as they are enduring a brutal Russian military invasion of their country.

"It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness." This ancient proverb has taken on a new meaning for Christiana Gorchynsky Trapani, owner of Door County Candle Co. in Sturgeon Bay.

Catholics in Russia have been left "grieving, angered and bewildered" by their country's invasion of Ukraine, according to the church's spokesman, who also warned that citizens would face harsh economic consequences from the conflict.

Pope Francis knows his appeals for an end to the war in Ukraine carry little weight with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but he also knows he has an obligation to continue speaking out and rallying others to join him in ...