In Lenten reflection, bishops urge solidarity with 'martyred people of Ukraine'. Published Mar. 4 2025. Nation.

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The destroyed Church of the Holy Myrrh-Bearing Women in Pisky, Ukraine, is seen Feb. 11, 2025, amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict. (OSV News photo/Alexander Ermochenko, Reuters)
A destroyed residential building in Avdiivka, a Russian controlled region of Ukraine, is seen Feb. 16, 2025, amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict. (OSV News photo/Alexander Ermochenko, Reuters)
A serviceman of 24th Mechanized Brigade named after King Danylo of the Ukrainian Armed Forces fires a 2S5 "Hyacinth-S" self-propelled howitzer toward Russian troops at the frontline near the town of Chasiv Yar in Donetsk region, Ukraine Nov. 18, 2024, amid the ongoing the Russia-Ukraine war. (OSV News photo/Oleg Petrasiuk, Press Service of the 24th King Danylo Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces/Handout via Reuters)
A Ukrainian serviceman of the 28th Separate Mechanized Brigade fires a 120-mm mortar toward Russian troops at the frontline near the town of Bakhmut March 5, 2024. (OSV News photo/Inna Varenytsia, Reuters)
Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, gives the homily during Mass at the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome Feb. 6, 2025, as part of the Jubilee of the Armed Services, Police and Security Personnel. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, gives the homily during Mass at the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome Feb. 6, 2025, as part of the Jubilee of the Armed Services, Policethe and Security Personnel. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

In Lenten reflection, bishops urge solidarity with 'martyred people of Ukraine'

OSV News Nation Tuesday 4th of March 2025

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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The U.S. bishops urged Catholics to answer Pope Francis' call for prayer for the people of Ukraine in their Lenten reflection as that nation fends off Russia's invasion.

In a Lenten reflection released by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops March 3, Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, president of the conference, wrote, “