2023-06-22 19:31:00
By Almudena Martínez-Bordiú
June 22, 2023 / 12:31 p.m.
The Vatican reported that Pope Francis has once again sent Cardinal Konrad Krajewki to Ukraine with a shipment of food and medicine for those affected by the war.
Through a statement published on Tuesday, June 22, the Department for the Service of Charity confirmed what will be the sixth visit of the Pope’s Almoner to the country at war.
According to the statement, the Cardinal’s mission will be “to be with them, pray with them and also leave them very concrete help, a sign of unity with the Pope who wants to be close to those who suffer.”
The Cardinal will travel to the city of Kherson, where the hydroelectric dam has been destroyed, causing enormous damage in the area.
More than 80 towns and cities were flooded, 20,000 hectares of farmland destroyed and more than 150 tons of oil spilled in the area.
As reported by the Holy See, the Cardinal will travel to Ukraine with a car loaded with the most urgent medicines, to have the opportunity to visit, along the way, the different religious communities, the parishes of Byzantine and Latin rite Catholics and of the orthodox
A second truck full of food (mostly received from Korea), as well as medicines and medical supplies, will also leave in the coming days to be delivered to the areas most affected by the dam explosion.
Almudena Martínez-Bordiú is a Spanish journalist, correspondent for ACI Prensa in Rome and the Vatican, with four years of experience in religious information.
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