#prayforukraine

The night after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Pope Francis lay awake in bed at the Vatican thinking about what he could do to prevent “one more death in Ukraine. Not one more,” he told the Argentine daily La Nacion.

Beneath the ancient beech forests of the Carpathian Mountains, a quiet monastery in the western Ukrainian village of Hoshiv has transformed itself into a giant playground for a dozen children who've been displaced.

As the United States prepares to accept up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees, existing communities in cities like Sacramento and Seattle are already mobilizing to provide food, shelter and support to those fleeing war.

Trevor Littleton, pastor of First Church of Christ in Painesville, Ohio has been reunited with one surrogate daughter who had been living in Ukraine. The whereabouts of his other surrogate daughter are still unknown. 

When the Rev. Eugene Cho sees images of refugees from the war in Ukraine, he starts thinking about his father, who grew up during the Korean War.

More than 100 U.S. Christian leaders sent a letter to Patriarch Kirill of Moscow asking him to use his influence to help stop the invasion of Ukraine and “prayerfully reconsider" his support for the war.

Ambassadors, elected officials and a group of interfaith clergy joined with Orthodox leaders in New York on Wednesday to express solidarity with Ukrainians as they resist the ongoing invasion of their country.

The Vatican’s secretary of state said in an interview to Italian papers on Monday that the Holy See is willing to mediate between the two warring parties in the conflict in Ukraine.