When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was anointed as the Pope, he chose to rename himself as Francis after St. Francis of Assisi, the medieval saint who founded the Franciscans, one of the largest ...

On February 24, 2022, while much of Ukraine woke to panic, Synyi led an evacuation of 70 people – students, teachers, and young volunteers – to Ivano-Frankivsk in western Ukraine. “We were probably ...

But many of the men I meet aren’t from frontline cities – they’re from places like Kyiv, Lviv, or Ivano-Frankivsk. These aren’t war zones.” “Out of hundreds in our church, I’ve met only two families ...

In Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, SBU military counterintelligence detained a city council member and neurologist who sold fake medical certificates claiming poor health, enabling conscripts to be removed ...

Kryvyi’s “Blue Flash Over Mountain Peaks,” shot in February 2012, Shchavnyk Mountain, Ivano-Frankivsk Region. Courtesy of Halyna Volhyna The last time Halyna saw her husband alive was early ...

For example, two major projects to build new state-of-the-art kilns are already ready in Kryvy Rih and Ivano-Frankivsk, and BalCem’s plant (which, before the war, had a capacity of 4 million tonnes ...