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| Father Milchakovskyi said that he and his family and at least two-thirds of his parishioners have left for Ukrainian-controlled territory on the advice of Archbishop Shevchuk (pictured above) (CNS) |
Members of the Ukrainian Catholic Church
are fleeing Crimea to escape threats of arrest and property seizures, a
priest has said.
“The situation remains very serious, and we don’t know what will
happen — the new government here is portraying us all as nationalists
and extremists,” said Father Mykhailo Milchakovskyi, a parish rector and
military chaplain from Kerch, Crimea, who was speaking to the Catholic
News Service just four days after Russia finalised the region’s
annexation.
Read more at The Catholic Herald (UK) >>
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