Catholic World News 11-Dec-13
With Ukrainian police threatening to oust anti-government protesters from Kiev’s Independence Square, leaders of the Ukrainian Catholic Church joined the protesters for morning prayers on December 11, and the police left without incident, the Catholic News Service reports.
Police had sought to clear the square of the protesters, who had stayed through the night despite bitter cold, to protest the government’s plans to withdraw from the European community. The synod of the Byzantine-rite Ukrainian Catholic Church issued a statement deploring the police tactics and expressing “our support and solidarity” for the demonstrators.
With Ukrainian police threatening to oust anti-government protesters from Kiev’s Independence Square, leaders of the Ukrainian Catholic Church joined the protesters for morning prayers on December 11, and the police left without incident, the Catholic News Service reports.
Police had sought to clear the square of the protesters, who had stayed through the night despite bitter cold, to protest the government’s plans to withdraw from the European community. The synod of the Byzantine-rite Ukrainian Catholic Church issued a statement deploring the police tactics and expressing “our support and solidarity” for the demonstrators.
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