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Innovative technology used by Israeli researchers to examine the bricks of the city has confirmed the veracity of an event described in 2 Kings 12.
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Innovative technology used by Israeli researchers to examine the bricks of the city has confirmed the veracity of an event described in 2 Kings 12.

During World War II and in the following years, various artists more or less openly depicted the Nazi leader and his followers as the incarnation of evil.

When a woman opened a dresser left in an alley for garbage collection, she found a newborn baby.

Three people were killed and others injured when a Russian missile hit a bus stop in front of a Kharkiv mosque on July 20. Among the victims was a 13-year-old boy.

Ukrainian General Vyacheslav Abroskin has made an unusual offer to the Russians who are laying siege to Mariupol.

Boris Romanchenko was killed by a bullet that hit his house in Kharkov, reported the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorial Foundation.

“We have no way of knowing how many philosophers, physicians, teachers, and good fathers and mothers were buried in the rubble due to the unthinking and meaningless evil that has entered our streets,” says the coordinator of Greek Catholic military chaplains, Fr. Andriy Zelinsky SJ.

Until the Russian invasion, Ukraine was responsible for about 9-11% of global grain production. The current situation in Ukraine must have an impact on the supply and price of food on international markets.

“Russians hunt us down -- they know who we are,” said Fr. Maxim from the besieged city of Kherson.

"You will never be able to destroy our profound faith in Ukraine and God," said Ukrainian President V. Zelensky.

The shocking story from the Mariupol hospital was captured by AP Photo photojournalist Evgeniy Maloletka. His photos show parents rushing into the hospital with a child wrapped in a bloody blanket and doctors fighting for his life.

Faced with grave danger the chief rabbi of Odessa, Rabbi Shlomo Baksht, decided to break Saturday's travel ban to safely evacuate 250 children from a local orphanage.

"Mass had just ended. We miraculously survived. Thanks be to God, no one was injured because we were in the basement," recounted Father Wojciech Stasiewicz.

Updates from Catholics in Ukraine help us to better understand the evolving situation there. How is the war impacting individual cities?

"This is not a war against Ukraine, but a war in the heart of Europe. We are all under attack. It is a war against the whole world."