Churches from both Russia and Ukraine urge for peace

12-02-2022

Eastern Europe

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Churches from both Russia and Ukraine urge for peace

The Russian Orthodox Church and the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church plead peace between the two countries. Recently, tensions have increased enormously, and a military conflict looms.

Pope Francis meeting with Hilarion, bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, the titular Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, the chairman of the Department of External Church Relations and a permanent member of the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Moscow, during a private audience in The Vatican on October 6. Photo AFP, VATICAN MEDIA

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Patriarch Bartholomew signing the act of autonomy for the Orthodox Church of Ukrainia (OCU) in Kyiv, January 2019. Photo EPA, Mykola Lazarenko

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