Faith
Ukraine Bishop: Faith Unshaken Amid War’s Grief
Faith Facts
- Bishop Sobilo finds burying the war’s young victims the hardest, like a mother’s unending grief for her only drafted son whose body was never recovered.
- Bishop Sobilo said the war began in 2014 and worsened after the 2022 invasion, according to Aid to the Church in Need.
- No atheists on the front lines, an officer shared; the Church prepares souls for eternity amid constant peril.
Auxiliary Bishop Jan Sobilo of Ukraine’s Kharkiv-Zaporizhzhia Diocese shares the harsh realities of death and suffering on the front lines.
This comes four years after Russia’s full invasion.
Yet amid the trials, faith endures.
Parishes are swelling as believers flee Russian-held areas lacking priests, and some recall the war’s roots in the 2014 Donbass conflict following a Western-supported coup.
“Nobody expected the war to start in 2014, and then the situation got much worse after the invasion in 2022,” Bishop Sobilo told Aid to the Church in Need.
As Scripture urges steadfastness in trial, join in prayer for Ukraine’s faithful, supporting persecuted brothers through Aid to the Church in Need to uphold God’s kingdom.