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Putin the Pilate

April 04, 2024

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Ukrainian Archbishop Gudziak to Americans: ‘We need your help’

ABC News’ Martha Raddatz interviews Metropolitan Archbishop Borys Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Church "There is the great tragedy, trauma, which will be lasting. But there is the valour, there is the willingness of people to put aside superficial things and say ‘this is good and this is evil, this is true and this is false, and I’m willing to risk my life for it"

April 04, 2024

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‘We’ll be killed’: Ukrainian Catholic Church faces ‘eradication’ if Russia wins, archbishop warns

February 20, 2024 By Gina Christian OSV News As Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine reaches the two-year mark Feb. 24, OSV News sat down with Metropolitan Archbishop Borys A. Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia, recently returned from his latest visit to Ukraine, for his insights on the war. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Read the…

February 20, 2024

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In Carlson’s interview with Putin, truth was nowhere to be found

by Archbishop Borys A. Gudziak OSV News In America, Tucker Carlson, unceremoniously fired last year from his bully pulpit at Fox News, is known for his biting sarcasm and derisive cynicism. Yet, in Russia, he recently met, in the course of a two-hour interview, the master of gaslighting and Orwellian tactics, whose cynicism is uniquely insidious. It is, tragically, at the root of wars and…

February 18, 2024

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Ukrainian faith leaders say if Russia prevails, religious freedoms would be curtailed

If Russian President Vladimir Putin prevails in his invasion of Ukraine, religious freedom in the country would be curtailed, Ukrainian faith leaders said at a recent event at the United States Institute of Peace. By KATE SCANLON OSV news Ivan Rusyn, deputy senior bishop of the Ukrainian Evangelical Church, said that "this war is not about our land, this war is about the very…

November 02, 2023

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Ukraine’s Independence Day ‘like a July 4th,’ says archbishop

By Gina Christian OSV News  Ukraine’s Independence Day, celebrated on Aug. 24, is “like a July 4th,” said Metropolitan Archbishop Borys Gudziak of Philadelphia, head of Ukrainian Catholics in the U.S. The observance marks the day in 1991 when Ukraine declared independence from the former Soviet Union. The decision was finalized in a Dec. 1, 1991, referendum that drew a resounding vote…

August 24, 2023

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Ukrainian youth wrapped in support, encouragement at WYD

Paulina Guzik  Our Sunday Visitor  Maria Shubina arrived in Lisbon much earlier than other youth traveling for World Youth Day — 17 months earlier, to be exact, in March 2022. The full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia had just started in her country and Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital and her hometown, became too dangerous. Her mom, who had raised 16-year-old Maria on her own,…

August 08, 2023

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Russian Orthodox leader Patriarch Kirill’s unholy war against Ukraine

By Borys Gudziak Atlantic Council  Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, we have been reminded that a centuries-long struggle continues against imperial forces seeking to eliminate Ukrainian identity, church life, and the very right of Ukrainians to exist. As was the case during the Czarist and Soviet eras, the Russian Orthodox Church is playing a…

August 03, 2023

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Ukraine dam destruction a 'diabolical act' in genocidal war, says archbishop, Ukrainian Catholics

June 08, 2023