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The head of the JRS International Reconciliation Programme speaks of the ongoing sorrow, fear and grief of war-struck Ukrainians alongside the crucial humanitarian and spiritual support provided by the Church. Despite donor fatigue, the need for aid remains critical and the people look to the world, head of the Jesuit Refugee Service’s International Reconciliation Programme, has just returned from Ukraine, where she accompanied Fr.
“These are considered the safest regions,” she notes, “yet they are deeply affected. Bishop Teodor Matsapula, from a Greek Catholic diocese in Transcarpathia, put it plainly: ‘As part of the body of Ukraine, we feel the pain of members of our families and parishes who have died. We have funerals of soldiers in our church almost every day.’”
“All those we met were united in their grief and loss: loss of loved ones - killed or missing in action; loss of those who fled the country; and loss of life as they knew it and of their communities as they knew them”. Other overwhelming feelings were of “sheer gratitude to be alive, and conversely, gratitude for those who had died for their country, for their freedom,” she adds, as well as “Great worry for the uncertainty and the future was another feeling across the board.”Beyond the immense grief, there is a pervasive fear. “Men hesitate to go out,” Danielle notes, “afraid of being conscripted and sent to the front.
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