The mayor of Lvov Sadovy met with the Pope and handed him a cross with a fragment of a Russian rocket pulled out of the body of a thirteen-year-old girl Nastya.
This cross, Sadovyi noted, is a symbol of the victory of goodness and truth; it was wounded by a fragment of a Russian missile. Wounded, but UNBREAKABLE, like all Ukrainians.”
The head of the Catholic Church blessed the cross, and now he will travel to churches around the world to call on all the faithful to pray for Ukraine. One more such cross will remain with him to remind him every day of the price Ukrainians pay for truth and freedom,” said the mayor of Lvov.
In addition, Pope Francis on December 7 compared Russia’s war with Ukraine to “Operation Reinhard,” according to Vatican News and Reuters. This is an action of extermination of Polish Jews by the Nazis during the Second World War.
On Monday, the Center for Catholic-Jewish Relations of the Catholic University of Lublin celebrated the anniversary of the “Reinhard deal”. During the Second World War, this led to the destruction of almost two million people, mostly of Jewish origin. History repeats itself. Now we see what is happening in Ukraine,” Francis said.
The pontiff noted that “the mention of these terrible events should awaken in all aspirations and actions in favor of peace.” In addition, the Pope urged to pray for Ukraine.
We ask the Mother of God to be a consolation for those who are experiencing the ordeal of the brutality of war, especially for long-suffering Ukraine. We pray for this long-suffering martyr nation,” the pontiff said.
Operation “Reinhard” (“Reinhardt”) is the code name of the state program of the Third Reich for the systematic extermination of Jews and Roma in the General Government. From July 1942 to October 1943, more than 2 million Jews and about 50 thousand Roma were killed in the Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka camps.
Source: Racurs
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