By GINA CHRISTIAN The head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church has denounced Russia's seizure of a Catholic Church in Ukraine's Kherson region, calling the structure's rededication for the Russian Orthodox Church a "sacrilege."The Church of St. Archstrategist Michael, located in the village of Oleksandrivka in the occupied Kherson region, was captured and joined to…...
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Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv-Halych, head of the worldwide Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, delivers the homily during a Mass of thanksgiving for Aid to the Church in Need at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City March 10, 2024. In a May 2 homily at at the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection in Kyiv, the archbishop denounced as a "sacrilege" Russia's recent seizure of a Catholic church in occupied Kherson, which Russian clerics have now dedicated to the Russian Orthodox Church. (OSV News photo/Gina Christian) (Gina Christian)
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