In addition to hiding Jews in monasteries, the Hebrew-speaking Andrey Sheptytsky risked his life to tell Pope Pius XII about Nazi atrocities. (JTA) — Pope Pius XII, the leader of the Catholic church ...
The Venerable Andrei Sheptytsky, who died 80 years ago on Nov. 1, 1944, was one of 20th-century Catholicism’s outstanding figures, whose remarkable life and heroic ministry as leader of the Ukrainian ...
Pope Pius XII, the leader of the Catholic church through the World War II years, does not have a great reputation in the Jewish community. Although he hid some Jews in churches during the Holocaust, a ...
On September 27 in New York, the President of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine, Boris Lozhkin, awarded the President of the World Jewish Congress Ronald Lauder the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky ...
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has authorized a decree recognizing the heroic virtue of Archbishop Andrey Sheptytsky, who was head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church from 1900 to 1944 and who ...
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Kiev: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on today unveiled a monument to a Catholic Church leader derided by Moscow for initially welcoming Nazi soldiers during World War II. Andriy Sheptytsky lead ...