Catholic World News - December 24, 2014
Rebels in Donetsk, a city of 975,000 that has been a center of separatist activity in eastern Ukraine, have occupied 11 out of the 67 parishes of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, according to the Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU).
Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk said that priests have crossed rebel lines to minister to the faithful and that some priests have faced torture.
“One of them was seated in