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Msgr. Peter I. Vaccari, CNEWA president, conveyed the papal agency\u2019s unwavering solidarity to its partners and beneficiaries in Ukraine with a weeklong solidarity visit to the country\u2019s eastern war-torn region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 21-28 August visit was his second to Ukraine this year. The first<\/a> focused on CNEWA-funded projects in western Ukraine, while the August trip focused on the eastern regions, including the front-line cities of Irpin and Bucha, both infamous for the human rights violations committed by Russia since their invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Bucha, Msgr. Vaccari visited the mass burial site of 116 civilians. In Irpin, he visited the local cemetery, which has a section dedicated to those who died in the war, from 2014 to the present, as well as the \u201ccemetery of cars,\u201d where \u201cRussian soldiers opened fire on all of the cars and all of the people trying to get out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He described the marks of war he saw during his visit to Nativity of the Mother of God Church in Irpin and its food distribution program, sponsored by CNEWA through Caritas Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While in Irpin on a solidarity visit to Ukraine, Msgr. Peter I. Vaccari visited a food box program sponsored by CNEWA through Caritas Ukraine. (photo: courtesy U.G.C.C. Information Department)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen you walk into the church, you see all of the bullet holes of the machine guns on the walls,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Msgr. Vaccari\u2019s visit to Kyiv coincided with Ukraine\u2019s Independence Day on 24 August. The city announced, for the second year in a row, that there would be no public celebrations and many residents took shelter or left the capital for fear of a Russian attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Kyiv, Msgr. Vaccari met with Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv-Halych, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. Two days earlier, he met with Metropolitan Borys Gudziak of the Archeparchy of Philadelphia in Morshyn, about 50 miles south of Lviv, who also was in Ukraine on a pastoral visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt makes a big difference when you\u2019re on the ground and you see what\u2019s happening,\u201d he said on the importance of visiting CNEWA\u2019s partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNEWA\u2019s support to Ukraine has been ongoing since the early 1990s, but increased in 2014, after Russia\u2019s incursion in eastern Ukraine and Crimea. Since Russia\u2019s invasion on 24 February 2022, CNEWA has rushed $5.8 million in emergency relief to church-led efforts in Ukraine, providing food, shelter, medical and winter supplies, and psychosocial support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGratitude was expressed every day at every stop,\u201d he said about the response from beneficiaries and partners. Major partners on the ground include Caritas Ukraine, Ukrainian Catholic University, the curia of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and the eparchial curia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Ukrainian people in general are a resilient people,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd the faith means everything to them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Msgr. Vaccari expressed his gratitude to those who make CNEWA\u2019s work in Ukraine possible and to those who helped him along his solidarity visits, including Anna Dombrovska, programs officer for CNEWA in Canada; Tetiana Stawnychy, president of Caritas Ukraine; Nadiya Bereziuk of Ukrainian Catholic University; Father Oleh Oleksa, secretary of His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk; Father Volodymyr Malchyn, pastor and member of the curia of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and eparchial curia; the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate; and the Knights of Columbus Council in Fastiv, Ukraine.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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