Vicar General of Eastern Catholics in Austria Urges International Community to Condemn Russian Terrorism
The Vicar General of the Vienna Archbishop for the faithful of the Eastern Catholic Churches in Austria, Fr. Yuriy Kolasa strongly condemned Russia’s recent rocket attacks on residential areas in Ukraine. On Thursday morning, some residential neighborhoods in Lviv were subject to shelling. Fr. Yuriy Kolasa’s mother was also injured. The blast wave smashed the windows in her apartment.
This was reported by RISU with reference to Katpress.
“This morning, it was minus 1 degree in Lviv. My sister lives in Lviv and is trying to tape the windows with plastic. But there are thousands of elderly people and people requiring care who are left alone in these inhumane conditions because they have no children or their children have left Ukraine.” His heart breaking at the sight of his old, helpless mother and many other people “forced to endure the cold in fear and despair in their own windowless apartment,” he said.
The clergyman further noted: “All those involved in these brutal attacks on residential neighborhoods, both those who give orders and those who directly execute them, as well as all those who justify such inhuman atrocities, should know that they are responsible before the Almighty. Lord, this is a blatant sin.”
Father Kolasa appealed to the Austrian public and the international community to condemn the “acts of state terrorism” committed by Russia. He also asked for prayers for the victims of the rocket attacks and “an end to this utterly absurd war.”
Fr. Yuriy expressed outrage at the recent interview with Vladimir Putin by American journalist Tucker Carlson: “To call Putin a Christian leader is profoundly cynical.” Christian leaders are those “who provide shelter to those displaced by war, protect the lives of millions of innocent children, enable them to live normal lives and attend school, all while providing basic social and medical care to women with children and, above all, to the elderly.”
Killing innocent children, shelling residential areas with rockets, threatening thousands of helpless older people and subjecting them to inhumane conditions, and forcing millions of women and children to flee their homes is anything but Christianity, said the Vicar General of the Archbishop of Vienna for the faithful of the Eastern Catholic Churches in Austria.
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