Ukrainian Catholic leader laments foreign aggression

October 22, 2014

The head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church said in a radio interview that Ukraine is a victim of foreign aggression, and not in the midst of a civil war.

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk said that his church has been “willing to stand to the end with our people, without asking anyone what church he goes [to] or political party [he] supports.”

The prelate added that the Russian Orthodox Church “can do far more for deescalation of violence in Ukraine and reconciliation between Ukraine and Russia than it has done until now.”

 

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Further information:

• "To say that the UGCC supports a certain part of Ukrainian society means to assert that there is a civil war in Ukraine" - the Head of the UGCC (Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church)