UOC helps organise humanitarian corridor in Mariupol
The Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry personally and with the participation of other hierarchs and clergymen of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church helps organize a humanitarian corridor in Mariupol, reports news.church.ua.
On March 12, 2022, Metropolitan Luke of Zaporizhzhia and Melitopol with priests of his eparchy was part of a humanitarian caravan carrying more than 90 tonnes of food and medicine to Mariupol.
On 10 March, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry made a statement in which he called on everyone concened to provide real humanitarian corridors for the urgent evacuation of civilians from settlements in the line of fire and to guarantee their safety.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky thanked the Church for its assistance in his address today.
"I am grateful to the representatives of the Church who joined the efforts to protect the humanitarian corridor in Mariupol from shelling," Zelensky said.
The President called on all Ukrainians "to work together, without internal divisions, supporting each other, throughout Ukraine".
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