Most Rev. Mark Brennan, Bishop of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, has approved a special collection, to be held on Ash Wednesday (March 2, 2022) for the Church in Ukraine and currently ravaged by war. St. Anthony will also collect funds for Ukraine at Masses on March 5 & 6, 2022.

Funds given in the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston will be combined with the Collection to Aid the Church in Central and Eastern Europe, where the humanitarian crisis is unfolding. Funds will be used to provide humanitarian aid to victims of the war as well as refugees who have fled their homelands in search of safety.