Christians march for peace in Lviv

According to Ukraine Today, participants hoped for reconciliation in Ukraine.

Thousands of Christians march for peace in Ukraine's western capital Lviv. Priests led large crowds in a solemn Sunday service through the streets of the historical city.

Lviv resident Galyna Romaniv-Pshevrotska said she hoped for reconciliation in Ukraine.

"We ask for peace in our country, for peace to come finally, for every mother to meet her son, that the tears of our mothers will not be shed again and for stability to come to our country," Galyna Romaniv-Pshevrotsk said.

Over 8,000 people have been killed since Russia invaded last year.

"(I came) to pray, to ask God for peace because peace is very much needed in Ukraine. Only prayer will rescue us from such a situation as we have now," said one of the participants, Oleksiy Dyachyshyn.

Believers made several stops near different cathedrals where they read from the New Testament.

"It is proof that Lviv is an Orthodox city, a city which cares about the fate of its Ukrainian people, a city which always unites in joint prayer because you understand that you can beg only God for special gifts. And for us today the special gift is peace which we highly need," said spokesman of the Lviv Archdiocese of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Pavlo Drozdyak.

The ceremony was also dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of Andriy Sheptytsky - head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church during World War One and Two.