On Sunday January 28 Pope Francis will be visiting the Minor Basilica of St. Sophia in Rome (via di Boccea, 478). "A consolation” for the whole Ukrainian people, afflicted by the “worst humanitarian crisis since world War II", ongoing for more than 4 years. "The Holy Father’s presence among us – said His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk – is an answer to these questions. He is saying ‘you are not alone. God has not forgotten you’”.

A consolation. This is how His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Leader and Father of Greek-Catholic Church, defined, with some emotion, the visit of Pope Francis to the Basilica Minor of Saint Sophia and to the Ukrainian community in Rome. The visit “touches the human fabric of all Ukraine” and the “heart” of a Country that for four long years has been suffering the aggression of an external force that caused millions of displaced persons, deaths and injured civilians. A conflict that the Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin defined a ‘forgotten war’. Nobody is speaking about it anymore. The Ukrainian conflict no longer hits the news while

“it’s the most serious humanitarian crisis since the Second World War.”

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