Tag: Ukraine
Conventual Franciscan Mission Presences around the World – XXXII
Provincial Custody of the Holy Cross in Ukraine
Mother Province: Province of St. Anthony and Bl. James of Strepar in Poland (Cracow)
After World War II,...
Romania: Fresh Humanitarian Aid for Ukraine
On November 11-12, 2023, four friars from the Province of St. Joseph, Spouse of the B.V.M. in Romania took part in a new humanitarian...
Ukraine: Dovhenke – The Smell of War
A Visit to a Village Liberated from Russian Occupation
On August 2-4, 2023, the Custos of the Provincial Custody of the Holy Cross in Ukraine,...
Ukraine: Residents of Mats’kivtsi Surviving the War under the Protection of...
Mats’kivtsi is a village in the Khmelnytskyi region of Ukraine. In 2010, the Conventual Franciscans built the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed...
Therapy through Art, Spiritual Direction and Material Help from the Conventual...
“The ongoing war in Ukraine is causing a lot of suffering. We have started some art therapy classes at the friary in Boryspil,” said...
Ukraine: Pilgrimage on Foot from Lviv to Bilshivtsi
During July 5-8, 2023, a pilgrimage for peace and reconciliation was conducted on foot from Lviv to the Marian Shrine of Our Lady of...
Ukraine: Fraternal Gathering of the Custody
On May 24-25, 2023, the Provincial Custody of the Holy Cross in Ukraine conducted a fraternal gathering at the friary in Boryspil, near Kiev.
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Ukraine: Fraternal Visit of the Minister General
On April 5-11, 2023, the Minister General, Friar Carlos A. TROVARELLI and the Provincial Custos of the Holy Cross in Ukraine, Friar Stanisław KAWA,...
Ukraine: Charitable Activities in Kremenchuk
Back in the fall of 2021, a few months before full-scale war broke out; we had been planning out the next year of operation...
Custody of Ukraine: One Year since the Start of Russian Hostilities...
Thanks from Bilshivtsi.
The Conventual Franciscan friary in Bilshivtsi, is in the transcarpathian region of Ukraine, a relatively safe area of the country. There are...
Greccio Christmas Indulgence
Prot. N. 35/2023
November 18, 2023
To the Brothers and Sisters of the Franciscan Family,
A few weeks ago, it was announced to you all that the...
A Fresh Perspective on St. Maximilian M. Kolbe in the Last Volume of the...
On Tuesday, December 5, 2023, the third and final volume of the Writings of Kolbe (Edizioni Messaggero Sant’Antonio di Padova Publishing) was presented in...
Bologna: We and the Rule: In Dialogue with Brother Francis Eight Hundred Years Later
On November 29, 2023, the Basilica of San Francesco in Bologna, Italy, hosted a public reading of the Later Rule in commemoration of the...
Poland-Gdańsk: Meeting of Superiors
On November 27-29, 2023, a meeting of the Superiors of the St. Maximilian M. Kolbe Province in Poland (Gdańsk) was held at the Meeting...
South Korea: Renewal of Vows
On November 29, 2023, the feast of All Saints of the Seraphic Order, all of the solemnly professed members of the Province of St....