January 12, 2024 / 05:03 AM
Pope Francis has written a letter addressed to the Major Archbishop of Kiev and head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, in which he shows his “indignation and pain” at Russia’s attacks on the Ukrainian country.
According to a statement from Shevchuk’s secretariat in Rome, the Holy Father’s letter, received on January 3, responds to a letter previously sent by the Archbishop to the Holy See after the largest missile attack by the Russian army since it began. the war in February 2022.
For Pope Francis, these attacks are “ignoble and unacceptable” and states that “they cannot be justified in any way.”