Vatican City, Jun 9, 2016 / 23:37 pm
After raising funds for humanitarian relief in Ukraine through a special collection in Europe, Pope Francis has established a committee to decipher the most urgent needs and get help to where it's most needed.
According to a June 9 communique from the Vatican "the Pope has decided to establish a specific technical committee on-site, composed of a president and four members" to help with the distribution of the funds raised through the collection.
The president of the committee, appointed by the Vatican's Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin in a recent letter, is Bishop Jan Sobilo, auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia. The Latin rite diocese is located in northeastern Ukraine, near to the front line of the separatist-held areas in Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts.
It will be up to Bishop Sobilo, a native of Poland, to name the other members of the committee apart from one, who will be appointed jointly by the Caritas Internationalis and the Pontifical Council Cor Unum.