Ukraine: 30,000 refugees in Bulgaria, including 9,000 children. Caritas at the forefront. Fr Nikolov to SIR, “I went and picked up refugees in Odessa”
Ukraine: refugee children return to school in Romania. Orthodox Church sends over 50 tons of humanitarian aid
Ukraine: Msgr. Graubner (Czech Bishops’) calls on Patriarch Kirill to use his influence to stop the war
Synodal path: Bishops from Nordic countries to German Bishops’ Conference, “facing new challenges by embracing again the unchanging deposit of faith”
Ukraine: religious leaders of the United Kingdom, “too few visas to refugees. Simplifying bureaucracy and taking them in”
UK: abortion law discriminates against people with disabilities. Judges reopen debate on British legislation
THE WAR SEEN FROM RUSSIA —
Giovanni Guaita, Orthodox priest in Moscow: “The Church is a product of history and she grows with her people.” “I am not afraid, I respond to my conscience and to God”
di M. Chiara BiagioniThe words of Father Giovanni Guaita, an Orthodox priest based in Moscow, author and signatory of a letter wherein 300…
DIPLOMACY —
Ukraine: Fr Zelazko (Russian-speaking Catholics in Israel), Israel’s mediation is “a drop of peace.”
di Daniele RocchiIsraeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s mediation effort meeting with Vladimir Putin in Moscow last Saturday. The reactions of Israel’s ambassador…
Ukraine: refugees, cold reception in the UK. Mgr. Arnold to SIR, “refugees are our brothers and sisters”
8 March: Pejcinovic Buric (Council of Europe), women fleeing war “even more vulnerable, threatened by violence, sexual assault, and rape”
SPEECH TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT —
