Ukraine: Rocket lands near CJ Sisters aid project

Image - CJ/Caritas

The Congregation of Jesus has several sisters in Ukraine mostly in the west of the country close to the Slovak frontier. There are also two Slovak sisters in Kyiv who work with Caritas international.

They have opened the basement of their apartment building, which houses Caritas, to women and children and do what they can to provide them with necessities. The women and children go down to the basement as soon as the sirens sound. Fragments from a downed rocket landed nearby two nights ago which was alarmingly close. The sisters have joined many others in the city to give blood.

The sisters had the option of returning to Slovakia at the start of the crisis but refused to leave.

We keep them all in our thoughts and prayers.

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LINKS

Congregation of Jesus - www.congregationofjesus.org.uk/

Caritas - www.caritas.org/