Ukraine parish becomes reception centre for refugees
22 MARCH 2022, THE TABLET by Abigail Frymann Rouch People seeking help from Fr Draus’ church generally came from Kharkiv, Kyiv and Sumy, cities heavily bombed by Russian forces. Desperation grows at Ukraine border as more than half a million refugees flee the war. Bel Trew/The Independent A parish in western Ukraine has transformed itself into a reception centre for hundreds of Ukrainians fleeing the conflict that has created Europe’s worst refugee crisis since the Second World War. In the first three weeks since Ukraine’s invasion by Russian forces on 24 February, “about 2,000 people have passed through our church,” Fr Grzegorz Draus of St John Paul II parish in Lviv told The Tablet by phone. The church, which lies 45 miles from the Polish border, is[…]
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