Churchgoers packed the pews at Cathedral Guadalupe during noon mass Friday, praying for peace and an end to war.
"I’m scared, but God has been helping me with the help of the Holy Spirit, to be able to be there as well," Francisco Moran said. Friday, he was back home in Texas, leading a decade of the Rosary in Ukrainian.
"To ask the prince of peace to govern this whole situation that we see in Ukraine, and in particular, for us to bind ourselves close with our brothers and sisters in Ukraine who are suffering," Catholic Diocese of Dallas Bishop Edward Burns said. He said the airport nearby and an area on the same street as his seminary have been bombed.
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