Originally published at The Catholic Thing
As Russia’s war on Ukraine approaches its 11th year, thousands of Ukrainians from all over the world gathered at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in France to pray for peace in their homeland and throughout the world. Russia’s aggression, which has also resulted in the forced deportation of well over 19,500 Ukrainian children to Russia and Belarus, has been declared genocide in two joint reports from the New Lines Institute and the Raoul Wallenberg Center for Human Rights.
