Photos featured this week include Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda of St. Paul and Minneapolis leading the Minnesota Senate in prayer, violence in Haiti and prayer service for peace in Ukraine at the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Philadelphia.
Pope Francis gives candies to children before his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican March 13, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda of St. Paul and Minneapolis leads the Minnesota Senate in prayer March 7, 2024, on the Senate floor at the Minnesota Capitol in St. Paul. The archbishop also led the House in prayer as it opened its floor session. (OSV News photo/Dave Hrbacek, The Catholic Spirit)
A gang member stands behind a barricade in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 11, 2024, after former Haitian police officer Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier, and leader of an alliance of armed groups, addressed the media. Prime Minister Ariel Henry the same day said in a video address that his government would leave power after the establishment of a transitional council. “Haiti needs peace. Haiti needs stability,” he said. (OSV News photo/Ralph Tedy Erol, Reuters)
Citizens’ Movement party presidential candidate Jorge Alvarez Maynez shakes hands with Archbishop Rogelio Cabrera López of Monterrey, Mexico, March 11, 2024, during an event in Mexico City to sign a peace commitment organized by members of the Catholic Church. (OSV News photo/Raquel Cunha, Reuters)
Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv-Halych, head of the worldwide Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, gives framed shrapnel from a Iranian drone that targeted his residence in Kyiv to New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan during a Mass of thanksgiving for Aid to the Church in Need at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City March 10, 2024. (OSV News photo/Gina Christian)
Ukrainian servicemen from air defense unit of the 93rd Mechanized Brigade fire an anti-aircraft cannon from a front-line position near the town of Bakhmut March 6, 2024, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine. (OSV News photo/Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty/Serhii Nuzhnenko via Reuters)
Ukrainian Catholic faithful pray for peace in Ukraine at a March 7, 2024, service at the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Philadelphia. Following the service, Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the worldwide Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, addressed those present and urged them to remain confident of Ukraine’s victory over Russian aggression. (OSV News photo/Gina Christian)
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