Catholic Diocese of Biloxi

160 parishes, 160 diocesan and religious priests. 155 nuns.

The war is still going on and is taking human casualties every day. Aggression does not decrease at all: This is a photo from around Kiev in early March ---

And this - from today

I am here to give thanks for the prayer support we are seeing. Also, I would like to express my deepest gratitude for the financial help that freed us to serve those most in need.

Everyone hid there from the shelling, prayed and sometimes even lived for a long time, even with whole families.

The youngest person who stayed overnight in the basement of one parish was only two days old from birth.

From everywhere came words of solidarity and prayers to God that bore fruit.

From the first days of the war, we did not ask anyone for anything, because many brothers and sisters in faith wrote and called us asking what we needed.

As a result of the shelling of infrastructure facilities, Ukraine suffers from a lack of electricity, heat, and not even water.

The great task of our pastoral centers is to prepare the so-called Indomitable Zones, where you can warm up, charge your phone, connect to the Internet…

Power generators are an indispensable need for such zones. We also look for and purchase them for large families and people with special needs.

The other big call is to procure fuel for the generators in the event of a shortage we experienced in the spring and early summer.

Supplies

Since October 2022, a full-time social kitchen for refugees and poor people has been operating in Zhytomyr.

This project took a lot of effort and still needs it. But it lends hot lunches to over 700 people every day.

But it lends hot lunches to over 700 people every day.

The monthly budget of such a kitchen is more than $35,000. This does not include fuel for the generators, in the absence of electricity.

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These are just a brief summary of our cause at the present time. I thank Almighty God for helping us to notice and respond to these calls.

During this war, we all took up the cross of serving the nation. Because we have learned that &quot;A slave