#LiveFromUkraine 🇺🇦: Dr. Ivan Budzan, a military surgeon in Ukraine, thanked the Catholic Response for Ukraine (#CR4U) working group for its continuous support of his hospital and patients. “It’s made us all much stronger,” he said.
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Next week on our #CHAHealthCalls#podcast, CHA's @BrianPReardon (left), and @bcomp10 discuss Bruce’s recent visit to #Ukraine and how #CatholicHealth care can continue to meaningfully partner with organizations in Ukraine. You won’t want to miss it! https://t.co/OmX0AwLDvY
Tetiana and military chaplain, Fr. Oleg, say that soldiers bring the remains of war to the parish’s military museum and try to leave some of their pain along with these objects of harm and death. Bruce Compton, of CHA-USA, and I look on with tears in our hearts and minds
In one small town, Zolochiv, we visited with a very active parish community that seemed totally engaged in including physically and intellectually challenged people on parish and civic life. Also, it is a base fir Knights of Columbus support to displaced people.
Today there is a general alert throughout the country. Do we really want to be on highways all day long??? Wouldn’t be better to stay in one of the ubiquitous bomb shelters on every corner and in every parish church????
While in Kyiv on 9 March, we were received by the Pope’s Ambassador to Ukraine. He and the Polish Ambassador were the only 2 top diplomats who did not leave Kyiv on va 25 Feb. 2024. He works tirelessly to help the local Church serve those most in need and promote peace
The Papal Nuncio showed us a piece if shrapnel from a rocket attack on the Roman Catholic seminary near Kyiv. He also displays on his living room the copy of a charred Bible found in a child’s bedroom of a bombed home. This “relic” reminds us of war’s horrors.
We visited a family that had lived in 3 buildings on the property for 4 generations. They lost everything in a bombing if their residential area and struggle to rebuild at least one house. The matriarch begged “tell the world what they have done” amidst ashes flowers were growing
Yesterday, we headed into the mountain town of Kosiv, where we visited an intensive trauma treatment workshop for returning military and their families, which was supported by ICMC. Participants were engaged in sharing deep reactions to violence of war and rebuilding family bonds
Not even two days later that town was hit by invading rockets and 5 people were killed. May they rest on peace and may God comfort those in mourning, wounded, and made homeless. Then on to Kyiv. As we approached, I was shocked to see how close the invaders got to the capital city