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Russia-Ukraine War

Auxiliary Bishop Jan Sobilo of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia, Ukraine, looks at a destroyed vehicle in in the summer of 2022 in the eastern Ukrainian region covered by the diocese. (OSV News photo/courtesy Bishop Sobilo)

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Ukraine church tensions surface in wake of Alaska summit

Jonathan Luxmoore|Aug 20, 2025|4 Min Read

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands during a press conference following their meeting to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, in Anchorage, Alaska, Aug. 15, 2025. (OSV News photo/Kevin Lamarque, Reuters)

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Gudziak: Trump-Putin summit fails to advance peace, justice

Gina Christian|Aug 16, 2025|4 Min Read

An emergency service worker carries a child as local residents flee via an evacuation train in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, Aug. 22, 2024, as Russian troops advance amid Russia's attack on Ukraine,(OSV News photo/Thomas Peter, Reuters)

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Advocate pleads for Vatican aid as Russian adoption database shows Ukraine's children

Gina Christian|Aug 11, 2025|4 Min Read

Pope Leo XIV begins his weekly general audience praying with visitors and pilgrims gathered in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican May 28, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Pope issues appeal for peace in Ukraine, Gaza amid fresh violence

Elise Ann Allen|May 28, 2025|4 Min Read

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attends a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim at the Kremlin in Moscow, in this May 14, 2025, file photo. Lavrov rejected the prospect of the Vatican hosting Ukraine-Russia peace talks in May 23, 2025, remarks. (OSV News photo/Alexander Nemenov, file photo)

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Russia rejects Vatican offer to host peace talks on Ukraine

Gina Christian|May 23, 2025|3 Min Read

A local resident gestures outside a residential building in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Feb. 2, 2022, which was destroyed by a Russian missile strike. (OSV News photo/Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy, Reuters)

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'Ukraine will rise' as 'Russia brings death,' say Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishops

Gina Christian|Feb 24, 2025|4 Min Read

A church destroyed by a Russian attack on the village of Bohorodychne in Ukraine's Donetsk region is pictured Feb. 13, 2024. (OSV News photo/Vladyslav Musiienko, Reuters)

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Report: Russia weaponizes Orthodoxy to persecute, kill Christians in Ukraine

Gina Christian|Feb 12, 2025|5 Min Read

Rescuers work at the site of an apartment building in Poltava, Ukraine, Feb. 1, 2025, that was hit by a Russian missile strike amid Russia's attack on the country. (OSV News photo/Vladyslav Boiko, Reuters)

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For Ukrainians 'on brink of endurance,' bishop says 'gestures of solidarity' bring back hope

Paulina Guzik|Feb 4, 2025|6 Min Read

A man reacts by a Ukrainian memorial in front of the Russian embassy in Berlin Nov. 19, 2024, the 1,000th day of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. (OSV News photo/Liesa Johannssen, Reuters)

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Pope and Ukrainian Major Archbishop mark 1000 days of Russian invasion

Crux Now|Nov 20, 2024|4 Min Read

Russian President Vladimir Putin is pictured in a file photo sitting in front of a computer at his residence outside Moscow. Human rights monitor Forum 18 reports that Russia continues to block a wide range of religious websites in Russia and in occupied areas of Ukraine, including Katolik.Life from Belarus and the Religious Information Service of Ukraine, founded at Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. (OSV News photo/Sputnik/Alexei Druzhinin, Kremlin via Reuters)

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Russia blocks Catholic, other religious websites amid war in Ukraine

Gina Christian|Oct 14, 2024|5 Min Read

Cardinal Matteo Zuppi of Bologna, president of the Italian bishops' conference, looks over a text before the start of a working session of the Synod of Bishops Oct. 4, 2024, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Cardinal Zuppi returns to Moscow as Vatican peace envoy

Courtney Mares|Oct 14, 2024|3 Min Read

From the window of his studio in the Apostolic Palace, Pope Francis gives his blessing to people gathered in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican for the recitation of the Angelus prayer Oct. 13, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope calls for Mideast cease-fire; prays for peace in Ukraine, Haiti

Cindy Wooden|Oct 14, 2024|3 Min Read

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