This comes from The Guardian newspaper, which put together this side-by-side comparison of key cities in Ukraine. And this is only a small sampling of what has been done. As Pope Francis said on Wednesday, speaking of the Ukrainian people:
They are victims whose innocent blood cries to Heaven and implores: put an end to this war! Silence the weapons! Stop sowing death and destruction! Let us pray together for this…
… And also here, there are some Ukrainian children with us. Let us greet them and pray together with them.
These children had to escape and come to a foreign land: this is one of the fruits of war. Let us not forget them, and let us not forget the Ukrainian people. It is hard to be uprooted from your own land due to war.
“Silence the weapons!”
Lord, hear our prayer…
