At a Catholic seminary in western Ukraine, hundreds of people who fled Russian bombs in the east are receiving shelter, food, medical care, as well as spiritual and emotional comfort, thanks to Catholic parishioners in the United States.
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Artyom is now 29. Before visiting Emili Aregak Center for the first time in 2019, he was isolated and uncommunicative. Due to Artyom's cerebral palsy, he hadn't finished school. As a young adult, he hardly ever left the house.
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Pope Francis frequently reminds us that the essential missionary character of the Church is to go forth. He said in his Angelus address of September 20, 2020: “The Church needs to be like God; always going out.”
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“It is not enough to say we are Christians. We must live the faith, not only with our words, but with our actions.”
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As Father Anthony Corcoran visited a home for the elderly in Kyrgyzstan, which was once a Soviet gulag colony, an old man shouted out, “Priest! I am Polish!”
The man, who had not seen a Catholic priest for six decades, had kept the faith through communist persecution by counting the Rosary on his fingers. He pleaded to receive the sacraments.
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Although Catholics gathered in various places throughout the country during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the first Catholic parish in modern-era Kyrgyzstan was officially established in 1956. It was soon afterward destroyed by the communist regime of the Soviet Union; the pastor was returned to prison, and the most active faithful were dispersed into remote places far from the capital.
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