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 ...
Andrey Sheptytsky also publicly protested the murder of Jews and denounced his own congregants for participating in the violence. Born to a noble Polish family in Ukraine in 1865, Andrey Sheptytsky ...
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 ...
As it turns out, Friday has been a “best of times, worst of times” sort of day for Ukrainians watching pro-Russian rebels trying to devour a portion of the eastern part of their country. They observed ...
IDF combat engineer captain discusses fighting Hezbollah with 'Post' ...
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JTA — 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 ...
Yet during those years when the region was occupied by Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1944, Jewish boys were hidden within the walls of this religious commune in Univ, home to a group of monks from the ...