{"id":14363,"date":"2016-04-13T09:53:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T09:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=14363"},"modified":"2016-04-13T09:53:16","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T09:53:16","slug":"pope-fancis-announces-special-collection-for-victims-of-ukraine-conflict-acn-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2016\/04\/13\/pope-fancis-announces-special-collection-for-victims-of-ukraine-conflict-acn-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Fancis announces special collection for victims of Ukraine conflict &#8211; ACN Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h2><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pope Fancis announces special collection for victims of Ukraine conflict\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis has asked all Catholic churches in Europe to take up a special collection for the victims of the \u00a0Ukraine conflict on 24 April.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to tens of thousands of Catholics in St Peter\u2019s Square, the Pope declared: \u201cThis gesture of charity, in addition to relieving material suffering, is intended to express my personal closeness and solidarity, and that of the entire Church, for Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeyond accompanying them with my constant thoughts and prayers, I\u2019ve decided to promote humanitarian assistance for them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He encouraged all the faithful of Europe to make a generous contribution to the collection on the 5<sup>th<\/sup> Sunday of Easter. The Pope did not say how the collection money will be distributed.<\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of Christians living in Ukraine are Orthodox but there are also around five million Eastern Rite Catholics who are in unity with Rome;.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis has called attention to the violence in Ukraine, where over 9,000 people died since conflict erupted in 2013, on several occasions and called for a solution to the conflict in his Easter message.<\/p>\n<p>The Pope\u2019s announcement comes after leaders of Ukraine\u2019s five-million Greek Catholic Church, which is in communion with Rome, objected to his meeting with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill in Havana, Cuba. He said he understood why Greek Catholics might have felt \u201cbetrayed\u201d by the declaration signed by the two leaders.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Borys Gudziak of Paris, a high ranking leader of Ukraine\u2019s Greek Catholic Church, has praised Pope Francis\u2019s appeal to raise funds to aid the people of Ukraine who have suffered two years of ongoing conflict.\u00a0 Bishop Gudziak, head of External Relations for the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church,\u00a0told Vatican Radio that the collection, \u201chas great material significance, but even more moral significance.\u201d\u00a0He said the Pope\u2019s decision to appeal for help and for peace in Ukraine is a natural extension of the current Jubilee Year of Mercy.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>ACN Malta<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Fancis announces special collection for victims of Ukraine conflict\u00a0 &nbsp; Pope Francis has asked all Catholic churches in Europe to take up a special collection for the victims of the \u00a0Ukraine conflict on 24 April. 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