{"id":7396,"date":"2022-10-20T12:54:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T16:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/ukraine-call-prayer-fasting-and-action\/"},"modified":"2022-10-20T12:54:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T16:54:04","slug":"ukraine-call-prayer-fasting-and-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/ukraine-call-prayer-fasting-and-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine: A Call to Prayer, Fasting, and Action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2022-10\/The-War-in-Ukraine-A-Call-to-Prayer-Fasting-and-Action.pdf\">Read the pastoral letter<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>In the three-page letter, they express the view that, like the crises the Ukrainian people have experienced in their history, including the Holodomor\u2014also referred to as the Great Famine (1932-1933)\u2014the intent of the current war is \u201cto erase the identity and history of the Ukrainian people \u2014 a genocide in the making.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>They further write: \u201cIn light of the recent intensified attacks, let us renew our attention to the plight of the people of Ukraine in an effort to continue to \u2018Stand with Ukraine.\u2019 In particular, let us renew our efforts to pray, fast, and act.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\"><em><strong>Last April, an ACN delegation received this flag drawn by a child refugee with his family in a Church institution.<br \/>\nA simple way to say to Canadian ACN benefactors: Thank you!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>Since the start of the war, Aid to the Church in Need (which has had project partners in Ukraine since 1953) has provided more than seven million dollars in aid to internally displaced people and refugees in Church-owned institutions\u2014seminaries, schools, churches, chapels, monasteries\u2014and has supported pastoral staff who accompany the population with sacraments and spiritual guidance, for which there is a growing demand.<\/p>\n\n<p>Canadians have already donated over $367,000 to ACN Canada in support of these efforts. Please continue! Furthermore, please stay informed and pray for the Ukrainian people!<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\"><strong>To donate:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/acn-canada.org\/donate\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/acn-canada.org\/donate\/<\/a>&nbsp;and click on <\/strong><em>Help for Ukraine<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\"><em>Contact : Mario Bard, AED Canada, 514-932-0552 or 1-800-585-6333, ext. 224<br \/>\n<a href=\"com@acn-canada.org\">com@acn-canada.org&nbsp;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the pastoral letter&nbsp; In the three-page letter, they express the view that, like the crises the Ukrainian people have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}