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The leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church warned Saturday that Russian bombardments have left some people in Ukraine without heat in freezing temperatures. In a video message on March 5, Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk urged the international community to do everything possible so that humanitarian convoys can access cities where Russian shelling has cut off power and water to residential districts. The major archbishop expressed concern that “a humanitarian catastrophe is beginning” in Ukrainian cities that have been surrounded by Russian forces.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/250583/ukrainian-archbishop-warns-that-bombings-have-left-people-without-heat-in-freezing-temperatures
Pope Francis condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and expressed his solidarity with the country on Sunday, lamenting that, quote, “rivers of blood and tears are flowing in Ukraine.” The pope announced his desire to help the Ukrainian people achieve peace, and repeated his call from the previous week for humanitarian corridors to provide relief to Ukrainians.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/250585/pope-francis-sends-cardinals-to-ukraine-where-rivers-of-blood-and-tears-flow
The US Supreme Court on Friiday reinstated the death penalty to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man convicted of killing four people in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, after a lower court had overturned it in 2020. In a 6-3 decision, with Justices Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor dissenting, the court found that Tsarnaev had received a fair trial in 2015 and had been justly sentenced to death. Although the past three presidential administrations have sought to execute Tsarnaev, the Archdiocese of Boston has called for his sentence to be commuted to life without parole, citing Catholic teaching on the death penalty.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/250577/supreme-court-reinstates-death-penalty-for-boston-marathon-bomber
Today, the Church celebrates Saints Perpetua and Felicity, young martyrs who died for the faith around the year 203.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/sts-perpetua-and-felicity-and-their-companions-169