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American historian and best-selling author Timothy Snyder responds to a public lecture by Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv-Halych on a just peace for Ukraine on the University of Toronto campus Feb. 25 2025. (Photo: Laura Ieraci)

Archbishop Shevchuk: ‘Stand Against the Temptation to Turn Inward’

On the heels of the third anniversary of Russia’s war against Ukraine, the leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church urged Canadians to be “bearers of truth” and to “stand against the temptation to turn inward” and “focus only on national concerns.”

A wooden church damaged by a rocket attack during the Russian invasion of the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine in 2022. On the second anniversary of the invasion, Canadian Christians have written a pastoral letter calling for prayers and an immediate end to the war, (OSV News photo/Viacheslav Ratynskyi, Reuters)

Canadian bishops add voice to Christian appeal for Ukraine peace

Canada’s Catholic bishops have joined Christian counterparts in marking the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with an invitation for all to join in praying for peace. In a pastoral letter released Feb. 21, three days before the Feb. 24 anniversary of Russia’s full-scale attack on its neighbour, national representatives of the Catholic, Orthodox,...

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