Tag: Ukraine
Ukraine: Extraordinary Custodial Chapter
On March 11-13, 2024, the Provincial Custody of the Holy Cross in Ukraine conducted an Extraordinary Custodial Chapter. The event took place at the...
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...
Karşıyaka – Izmir: Conventual Franciscans Return to the Parish of St. Helena
Sunday, April 14, 2024, was a day of great significance for the faithful in the Karşıyaka District of Izmir, Turkey. It was the day...
Sicily-Calabria: Fraternal Assembly
On April 15-16, 2024, the friars of the Italian Province of the Immaculate Conception (Sicily-Calabria) conducted a Fraternal Assembly under the title: “For a...
30th Anniversary of the Founding of the Franciscan Publishing House in Russia
On April 7, 2024, the friars of the Russian General Custody of St. Francis of Assisi celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of...
11th Ordinary Provincial Chapter of the Province of Gdańsk
On April 8-12, 2024, the Province of St. Maximilian M. Kolbe in Poland (Gdańsk) conducted its eleventh Ordinary Chapter. The Chapter was held at...
India: Priestly Ordinations and First Masses
In April of 2024, God blessed the Conventual Franciscan Province of St. Maximilian M. Kolbe in India with an abundance of new priests. On...