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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Tue Mar 25, 2014, 04:49 PM Mar 2014

Ukrainian Catholics experiencing 'total persecution' in Crimea

Sonya Bilocerkowycz and Sofia Kochmar

Kyiv, Ukraine, Mar 18, 2014 / 04:10 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- As the Russian president signed a bill to annex Crimea Tuesday, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the peninsula has been experiencing what a Church official calls “total persecution.”

“At this moment all Ukrainian Greek Catholic life in Crimea is paralyzed,” Fr. Volodymyr Zhdan, chancellor of the Stryi eparchy in western Ukraine, told CNA March 18.

From 2006 to 2010, Fr. Zhdan served as chancellor of the Odesa-Krym exarchate, which encompassed both the mainland port city of Odesa and the Crimean peninsula.

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/ukrainian-catholics-experiencing-total-persecution-in-crimea/

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