“We have to love each other”: Winnipeg Ukrainian community holding onto to hope through faith, fellowship
“ always looked white, his ears and his face, and I had to do something, I had to take them ,” she added.
“My son misses his father so much, he always tells me ‘I’m dreaming when my father comes through this door and I will see him’.”Mykhalyk says she longs to see the day the war is over. “I’m dreaming about the last day of this war, and I couldn’t imagine this could happen in the 21st century,” she said.Mykhalyk is now working at Sts. Vladimir & Olga Cathedral, the Ukrainian Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral on McGregor Street in Winnipeg, a place that she says has supported new and numerous other Ukrainian newcomers.Pastor Ihor Shved says he never thought the war would drag on this long.
“Now, to be honest, we’re used to pain, but it’s still painful,” Shved said. “We’re still in fear and we don’t know where future will be, we believe Ukraine will win.” Pastor Ihor Shved says many newcomers say they feel like they’re back at home when they come to the church.
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