In the story headlined “Archbishop mounts pressure for papal visit to Ukraine, says Moscow getting in the way” (Crux, a news site that covers the Catholic Church, September 5), senior correspondent Elise Harris reported: “Archbishop Borys Gudziak, one of nearly 50 Ukrainian Greek-Catholic bishops in Rome this week, says he and his fellow prelates are pushing harder than ever for a papal visit to Ukraine – a trip that he said is crucial to ending conflict in the country, but which is being held up by fear of potential reprisal from Russia.” Speaking of the war in eastern Ukraine, Metropolitan Borys said: “Almost every day someone is killed. This has been going on for five years. It’s like a terrorist act in your country every day. This is thousands of terrorist acts.” He added, “We believe that if the pope came to Ukraine, the killing would, if not stop, would lessen,” explaining that an invitation for a papal visit was issued a long time ago.
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