War in Ukraine

Christmas is a time to get together. We may not see our relatives for a long time, but at Christmas our houses are filled with voices. Everyone comes home. But in Ukraine, this Christmas was not typical at all.

While war in Ukraine continues with no end in sight, one group in particular is contributing to a more peaceful world amid the turmoil of Russian invasion — the Catholic religious sisters of Ukraine.

"It is a cold and dark time." As exiles, Ukrainian refugees in Poland are thinking of Christmases past and worried about a country struggling with the consequences of war: illness and hunger, deprivation and death.

The Ukrainian people have entered a time of blackout. So that our light is not only external, but comes from the heart, the Basilian sisters continue to pray, volunteer and help, even in the dark.