ROME, MAY 14 – “In a mass grave they recently discovered almost 500 people with their hands tied and with a bullet in the head. It means that they were murdered in a cruel way, in the same way as in the time of Stalin they murdered innocent people by throwing them into mass graves ”. This was reported by the major archbishop of Kiev, mgr. Sviatoslav Shevchuk giving his testimony of the situation in the country in video link with the XXIII National Convention for the Pastoral Care of Health of the CEI, which was held in Cagliari from 9 to 12 May. This was announced by the Secretariat of the Major Archbishop, based in Rome. What Ukraine is experiencing is a “dramatic moment”, with a war that has, however, dropped the masks and shown everyone for who they really are, explained Shevchuk. From the memory of February 24, when Kiev was put under Russian fire, to the decision to save lives, “a primary duty” as a “Church and Christian community”, to the difficulties of doing so in those conditions. But “thank God, we survived,” said the primate of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church. And he added: “I didn’t think I would be able to survive because the capital was almost surrounded in three days. The Ukrainian army was able to stop the Russian tanks 50 kilometers from our cathedral ”. (HANDLE).
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