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By: Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the day Pope Francis established as a day of prayer for peace in Ukraine, the pope appealed for an end to all war and prayed that dialogue, the common good and reconciliation would prevail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLet us ask the Lord to grant that the country may grow in the spirit of brotherhood, and that all hurts, fears and divisions will be overcome,\u201d he said at the end of his weekly general audience in the Vatican\u2019s Paul VI audience hall on 26 January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMay the prayers and supplications that today rise up to heaven touch the minds and hearts of world leaders, so that dialogue may prevail and the common good be placed ahead of partisan interests,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With rising tensions in the region and the threat of a possible Russian-Ukrainian conflict spreading, Pope Francis had set 26 January as a day of prayer for peace in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the day coinciding with his weekly audience, the pope asked people to pray throughout the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLet us make our prayer for peace in the words of the Our Father, for it is the prayer of sons and daughters to the one Father, the prayer that makes us brothers and sisters, the prayer of children who plead for reconciliation and concord,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pope said that as people remember the Holocaust on the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, also \u201cthink about the more than 5 million people who were annihilated (in Ukraine) during the time of the last war. They are a suffering people, they suffered famine, they suffered so much cruelty and they deserve peace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia annexed Crimea in early 2014 and, shortly afterward, Russian-backed separatists began fighting Ukrainian government forces in the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk. Some 1.5 million people have fled the region to other parts of Ukraine and thousands of civilians and soldiers have died or been injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While in the spring of 2021 Russia was accused by many Western nations of trying to provoke more active fighting by holding military exercises near the border, a massive Russian buildup of troops just over the border created alarm in early December. The buildup has continued and, late on 22 January, Britain\u2019s Foreign and Commonwealth Office released a statement saying it had evidence that Russia was developing plans to install a pro-Russian government in Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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