“Many children have met God here for the first time,” catechist Ivanka Fedorak told me during my recent trip to western Ukraine. I was there with Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) to visit some projects helping people fleeing the war.
“When the children arrived, they seemed frightened,” Ivanka said. “I have seen them relax and open up gradually. Their hearts have opened to each other and to God.”
Ivanka helped coordinate a series of pastoral activities for displaced children at St Andrew’s Catechetical Centre in the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk (photo). Many of the children had never prayed before, and it was here that they first felt inspired to talk to God.
