Ukraine

Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksyy, speaks during a news conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, in this Feb. 26, 2022, file photo. (CNS photo/Courtesy The Presidential Office of Ukraine)

Responding to Zelenskyy adviser, Vatican bank denies Russian investments

September 12, 2023

After an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggested that a financial relationship exists between the Vatican and Moscow, the Vatican bank said Sept. 9 that it “does not receive nor invest money from Russia.”

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Image of the first Republican candidates' debate of the 2024

GOP presidential contenders spar over abortion, immigration, Ukraine and Trump in first debate

August 25, 2023
Eight Republican candidates participated Aug. 23 in the Republican National Committee's first debate of their party's presidential primary process in a Milwaukee debate hosted by Fox News -- but the party's frontrunner, former President Donald Trump, did not attend, and ...
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People attend a 'Stop Genocide of Ukraine People' rally and protest against Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Times Square in New York City April 9, 2022. U.S. Metropolitan Archbishop Borys Gudziak has called for renewed prayer, advocacy in support of Ukraine after recently released report finds Russia has breached all terms of 1948 Genocide Convention in its invasion of that nation. (OSV News photo/Jeenah Moon, Reuters)

Genocide report on Ukraine ‘worst news possible,’ says archbishop

August 18, 2023
A new report on Russian atrocities in Ukraine is both "the worst possible news" and "welcome," a Ukrainian Catholic archbishop told OSV News.
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Ariel view shows the Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa, Ukraine, damaged

Russian missile destroys Transfiguration Cathedral’s central altar in Odesa 

July 25, 2023
(OSV News) — A Russian attack on a key Ukrainian port city has partially destroyed a historic Ukrainian Orthodox cathedral and UNESCO World Heritage site, prompting international outrage and pledges to rebuild. Amid a July 23 nighttime attack by Russia ...
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A rosary is pictured hanging from a machine gun in an undated file photo as Ukrainian soldiers stand at their positions near the Ukrainian town of Pervomaysk. Dorian Kernytsky, a Philadelphia-area Ukrainian Catholic, has been making hundreds of rugged, stainless steel rosaries for troops in Ukraine, hoping to provide solace amid the horrors of the current war with Russia. (OSV News photo/Gleb Garanich, Reuters)

Biden discusses war, humanitarian concerns in Ukraine with papal envoy

July 19, 2023
President Joe Biden met with Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi, Pope Francis' special envoy to seek a peaceful resolution to the ongoing war in Ukraine on July 18.
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A Ukrainian soldier picks up unexploded parts of a cluster bomb left after Russia's invasion near the village of Motyzhyn, Ukraine, April 10, 2022. In a CNN interview July 9, 2023, U.S. President Joe Biden defended what he called a "very difficult decision" to provide cluster munitions to Ukraine amid Russia's invasion of that country, weapons the Vatican opposes. (OSV News photo/Mykola Tymchenko, Reuters)

US to Provide Ukraine Cluster Munitions Opposed by the Church As ‘Inhumane’

July 17, 2023
President Joe Biden defended what he called a “very difficult decision” to provide cluster munitions to Ukraine amid Russia’s invasion of that country, weapons the Vatican opposes.
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Ukraine’s military chaplains ‘ready to heal the wounds of war’ 

July 12, 2023
KYIV, Ukraine (OSV News) — Ukrainian military chaplains told OSV News they’re standing shoulder-to-shoulder with their troops across a long front line, while readying themselves for a post-war ministry of healing throughout their nation. “We’re in our positions, and we’re ...
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