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Annual collection ‘ever more urgent’ for church in Ukraine, former Soviet states, says bishop
An annual collection for the Catholic Church in nations once under Soviet control is “ever more urgent,” especially as Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine enters its fourth year — and as the church still works to rebuild in nations scarred by decades of …