“Today we join our
Ukrainian brothers and sisters who, with the spiritual initiative ‘World Prayer
for Ukraine’, ask the Lord to give peace to their martyred country,” Leo said
while speaking to St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican.
With a heart wounded by the violence that ravages your land, I address you on this day of your national feast.
I wish to assure of my prayer for the people of Ukraine who suffer from war – especially for all those wounded in body, for those bereaved by the death of a loved one, and for those deprived of their homes.
May God Himself console them; may He strengthen the injured and grant eternal rest to the departed. I implore the Lord to move the hearts of people of good will, that the clamor of arms may fall silent and give way to dialogue, opening the path to peace for the good of all.”.
Ukraine’s
Independence Day, celebrated annually on Aug. 24, commemorates the country’s
1991 declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
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