Prime Minister Scott Morrison offered his prayers, but there was a feeling of helplessness among parishioners at St Andrew’s Ukrainian Church | HatAlexander
The first line of the Ukraine national anthem is “Ukraine is not dead yet”. When the parishioners’ voices swelled with the line at St Andrew’s Ukrainian Church in Lidcombe on Sunday, the old men’s eyes moistened and the women dabbed at their cheeks.
Down in the front row, Prime Minister Scott Morrison offered his support, joined by his wife, Jenny, Immigration Minister Alex Hawke, Special Minister of State Ben Morton, Reid MP Fiona Martin and the Polish Consul-General Monika Konczyk. He spent much of the service in deep prayer, the light of the stained glass windows in the overhead dome reflected on his own. After he lit a candle for peace and said a few prayers, the congregation broke into applause.
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