https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/250474/things-to-know-about-the-catholic-church-in-ukraine
About 9 percent of Ukrainians, approx. 3.6 million people, are Greek Catholics who belong to Churches of the Byzantine rite. The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church was outlawed under Soviet rule, from 1946 to 1989, and the Ruthenian Catholic Church was suppressed in 1949. Read the Feb 24 CNA report about what they have faced.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/250474/things-to-know-about-the-catholic-church-in-ukraine
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Josef Ketzer
3/7/2022 02:03:58 pm
Lviv (Lemberg), a Ukrainian town in her utmost Western part, belonged once to the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, this war is almost in my homeland...
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3/7/2022 04:21:21 pm
redunn111@gmail.com I didn't know Kiev (Kyiv, Lviv, Lemberg) is so close.
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