The author and LGBT+ activists are smearing Southwark archbishop John Wilson after he banned Green from publicizing his LGBT+ books at The John Fisher School, Purley and St. John's Primary School, Gravesend.

Wilson fired governors at The John Fisher School after the majority defied a diocesan directive urging the school to cancel Green's book-signing event.

Church of England officials have delivered strong statements regarding the invasion of Ukraine. At the outset of the war, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell released a joint statement condemning Putin, calling his attack "an act of great evil."

But this common heritage has also become a point of contention. Russians call the prince of Rus' Vladimir; for Ukrainians, he is Volodymyr. He was baptized in Crimea, what is now disputed territory between Russia and Ukraine. When Vladimir/Volodymyr returned to Kiev (or Kyiv), he had his warriors baptized en masse in the Dniepr River. In 1852, the Russian Empire commemorated the event by placing a 14-foot statue of Volodymyr above the riverbank. It soon became a symbol of the city.

Brother Vasyl is from a village near the south-east port of Mariupol, 37 miles from the Russian border, and has been helping children from destitute families evacuate to the countryside in central Ukraine.

"We don't have time to be frightened. We are staying and helping the people to survive the situation," he said.

ACN's Ukraine projects manager Magda Kaczmarek said that leading bishops in Ukraine have appealed to people not to flee the country.