Ireland and Ukraine - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 21 Apr 2022 07:34:11 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Ireland and Ukraine - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Irish churchgoers raise 3.25 million euro for Ukraine https://cathnews.co.nz/2022/04/21/irish-churchgoers-raise-3-25-million-euro-for-ukraine/ Thu, 21 Apr 2022 07:50:45 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=145992 Catholic churchgoers in Ireland have raised 3.25 million euro for the people of Ukraine since the war began. Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh and Archbishop Dermot Farrell of Dublin paid tribute to the generosity of parishioners. Irish bishops had asked for a special collection in parishes across Ireland in the wake of the Russian invasion. Read more

Irish churchgoers raise 3.25 million euro for Ukraine... Read more]]> Catholic churchgoers in Ireland have raised 3.25 million euro for the people of Ukraine since the war began.

Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh and Archbishop Dermot Farrell of Dublin paid tribute to the generosity of parishioners.

Irish bishops had asked for a special collection in parishes across Ireland in the wake of the Russian invasion.

The collection took place largely over the weekend of March 26-27.

In a joint statement, the archbishops said: "Since the outbreak of this war, over seven million people have been displaced and nearly five million people have been forced to emigrate from Ukraine, becoming international refugees.

"As Christians, our Gospel imperative is to support the victims of this appalling humanitarian crisis, in the words of the Holy Thursday Liturgy, ‘where charity and love are found there is God'.

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