After a half-hour private meeting in the library of the Apostolic Palace, Pope Francis gave the prime minister of Ukraine a bronze plaque featuring a bird and a flower alongside the inscription, “Peace is a fragile flower.”
Ukrainian Refugees
One in 10 Ukrainians Is a Refugee, Half Are Children, U.N. Agencies Say
More than 4 million people have fled Ukraine in the past five weeks, and half of them are children, said two U.N. agencies.
Ukrainian Archbishop Says Putin Conducting a ‘War of Total Destruction’
According to the leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the crimes being committed under the leadership of Russian Vladimir Putin during the invasion of Ukraine call to mind those of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.
U.S. Set to Accept up to 100,000 Ukrainian Refugees
The Biden administration said March 24 that the United States plans to welcome up to 100,000 Ukrainians as refugees.