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‘My heart really hurts a lot,’ Ukrainian archbishop says of thousands believed to be somewhere in Russia.
The Catholic Church in Ukraine is working with Rome to try to document and help thousands of children in eastern Ukraine who have been taken by Russian authorities into Russia during the three-year war between the two countries, Ukraine’s Catholic primate told EWTN News.
“Those children has been beaten, even tortured,” said Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the Catholic patriarch of Kyiv-Halych, during an interview with EWTN News In Depth broadcast Friday, Feb. 21.
“We have to be aware that those children, the most vulnerable persons, they are experiencing the biggest disregard or biggest jeopardy in that situation,” he said.
Many of the children who have subsequently returned to Ukraine are showing signs of emotional trauma, he said.
“They are silent for months. We have to really commit to rehabilitating these children,” Archbishop Shevchuk said in the interview, which was conducted in both English and Spanish. “Can you imagine children taken from their relatives? The imprisoned children. My heart really hurts a lot.”
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The Catholic Church in Ukraine is working with Rome to try to document and help thousands of children in eastern Ukraine who have been taken by Russian authorities into Russia during the three-year war between the two countries, Ukraine’s Catholic primate told EWTN News.
“Those children has been beaten, even tortured,” said Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the Catholic patriarch of Kyiv-Halych, during an interview with EWTN News In Depth broadcast Friday, Feb. 21.
“We have to be aware that those children, the most vulnerable persons, they are experiencing the biggest disregard or biggest jeopardy in that situation,” he said.
Many of the children who have subsequently returned to Ukraine are showing signs of emotional trauma, he said.
“They are silent for months. We have to really commit to rehabilitating these children,” Archbishop Shevchuk said in the interview, which was conducted in both English and Spanish. “Can you imagine children taken from their relatives? The imprisoned children. My heart really hurts a lot.”
‘Thousands Have Been Taken’
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Missing Children Among the Many Victims of Ukraine War
‘My heart really hurts a lot,’ Ukrainian archbishop says of thousands believed to be somewhere in Russia.
