Ukraine Catholic leader counts costs of two years of war

In the run-up to the second anniversary of the war in Ukraine, one of the country’s most senior Catholic leaders has described how the Church is overwhelmed with trying to support families tormented and broken by the conflict.

Speaking at a conference organised by Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, said that the trauma of the war “has already affected the heart of Ukrainian society – the family”.

Major Archbishop Shevchuk said: “The future of Ukraine and the Church depends on how we will be able to respond to this need to overcome war trauma.”