Pope Francis urged boys and girls to pray for children “forced to live the terrible and dark days of war” after his Angelus address Sunday.
Following an Italian custom, children brought little statuettes of the baby Jesus to Saint Peter’s Square in the Vatican Sunday for the pope to bless them. The children then take the figurines home with them to use in their Nativity scenes.them “to pray, before the creche, that the Nativity of the Lord will bring a ray of peace to children all over the world.”
In particular, the pope urged prayers for those children who are “forced to live the terrible and dark days of war, this war in Ukraine that destroys many lives, so many lives, and many children.”Sunday on the energy crisis facing Ukraine this Christmas as explained by the head of Ukraine’s Greek Catholic Church, Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk.
“The cold is the reason for the fifth wave of internally displaced people,” Archbishop Shevchuk said. “From the beginning of the war, first the oligarchs took the money and fled, then those who, with their own means, helped themselves and found hotels and other places and still the people without anything who fled empty-handed.”
Pope Francis again expressed his distress Wednesday over the situation in “tormented” Ukraine, just as Russian President Vladimir Putin has raised the specter of nuclear war.
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