Bishop of Kharkiv: We are a Church under bombs that loves and defies death

In an interview with Vatican Media, Bishop Pavlo Honcharuk of Kharkiv-Zaporizhzhia, who met Pope Leo XIV at the General Audience, says he brings the Pope’s blessing to his suffering country, and offers a recount of “a devastated city, where bombings strike even playgrounds, deepening civilians’ fear and soldiers’ pain,” but in which, “sisters and priests remain despite everything.”

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