PEACE TO THE WORLD - THE EVE

 

                            “Three Angels” (1983) by Vitaliy Lytvyn (Ukrainian artist)

                                                            Toronto, Canada

“Peace means above all the absence of war, which for us means winning, getting the enemy to go away. Peace in our imagination means stopping these military actions. Stop killing us. That will be the first step towards authentic peace. 

But we know that peace is something deeper than the absence of war. It is not just about winning in war, but winning the very spirit of war, the war in its causes, the source of authentic and lasting peace.” 

                                                          Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk

Many Church leaders across the world are asking for  a temporary ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine on Christmas. 

“As people of faith and conscience, believing in the sanctity of all life on this planet, we call for a Christmas Truce in Ukraine. In the spirit of the truce that occurred in 1914 during the First World War, we urge our government to take a leadership role in bringing the war in Ukraine to an end through supporting calls for a ceasefire and negotiated settlement, before the conflict results in a nuclear war that could devastate the world’s ecosystems and annihilate all of God’s creation.”