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Pittsburgh artist creates video linking war in Ukraine to Good Friday

A local artist recreated an article she read out of an America Media magazine to show the connection between Good Friday and the war in Ukraine.

Pittsburgh artist creates video linking war in Ukraine to Good Friday

A local artist recreated an article she read out of an America Media magazine to show the connection between Good Friday and the war in Ukraine.

HOW THIS HOLHOY LIDAY CAN BE LINKED TO THE SUFFERING THE PEOPLE IN UKRAINE ARE GOING THROUGH. ON THIS GOOD FRIDAY -- >> ♪ [SINGING] ♪♪ TORI: A LOCAL ARTIST APART OF THE ST. ALDABERT CHURCH ON PITTSBURGH’S SOUTHSIDE WANTED TO DO SOMETHING A LITTLE EXTRA FOR THIS HOLY Y.DA >> IT WAS A PERFECTIT ME, HOLY WEEK, GOOD FRIDAY IN PARTICULAR WHICH IS WHEN WE REFLECT ON JESUS’ PASSION AND HIS SUFFERING AND DEATH ON THE CROSSND THAT’S WHAT THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS IS ALL ABOUT, SO I THOHT IT WAS A PERFECT FIT. TORI: KENDRA MCLAUGHLIN SAYS E READ AN ARTICLE FROM "NATIONAL MAGAZINE" ABOUT WHAT THE PEOPLE IN UKRAINE ARE GOING THRGHOU WHILE THEIR COUNTRY IS AT WAR. SO, SHE CREATED THIS VIDEO, THE STATION’S OF THE CROSS FOR UKRAINE, WHICH SHE SAYS LINKS THE SUFFERING OF UKRAINE TO THE SUFFERING OF JESUS THE DAY HE WAS CRUCIFIED, BY SHARING REAL PHOTOS AND REAL STORIES OF UKRAINIANS. >> IT WAS VERY POWERFUL AND VERY MOVING. TORI: NOEL BAKER AND KAREN COUGHLAN BOTH SAY THE DEVIO IS NEEDED TO SHOW IN REAL-TIME WHAT PEOPLE IN UKRAINE ARE GOING THROUGH. >> I JUST DONT KNOW WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE TO HAVE LITTLE CHILDREN AND HAVE TO EXPLAINO T TH EM THAT SOMEBODY’S BOMBING US AND WE MIGHT ALL DIE. >> I WANTED AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE TO EXPERIENCE WTHA PEOPLE OVER THERE ARE GOING THROUGH AND TO SEE IT CONNECTED TO THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST AND HOW CHRIST IS THERE ACCOMPANYING YO TORI: KENDRA TELLMEHE SS HOPES MORE PRAYERS WILL GO UP FOR THOSE IN UKRAINE AS A RESULT OF THIS DEVI SHE SAYS JIM MCDERMOTT
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Pittsburgh artist creates video linking war in Ukraine to Good Friday

A local artist recreated an article she read out of an America Media magazine to show the connection between Good Friday and the war in Ukraine.

One Pittsburgh artist created a video depicting what Ukrainians are going through as their country is at war, and how she believes it relates to the Good Friday Holy Day. Watch the report from Pittsburgh's South Side: Click the video player above."It was a perfect time, Holy Week, Good Friday in particular, which is when we reflect on Jesus' passion and his suffering and death on the cross," said Kendra McLaughlin, a local artist. "That's what the Stations of The Cross is all about, so I thought it was a perfect fit."Kendra McLaughlin said she read an article out of America magazine by Jim McDermott and Tatyana Borodina, which shared real-time stories from Ukrainians about life in war. "I read it and I was moved to tears immediately, it was so right now and it was about people's lives and their suffering, then uniting their suffering to the sufferings of Christ," McLaughlin said.She said after she read the article, she reached out asking permission to recreate the piece as a video. "What I tried to do with the video is make it very present so you're with them in those moments while they were struggling," McLaughlin told Pittsburgh's Action News 4. "While they were questioning, while they were doubting, just like Jesus may have felt."McLaughlin said she hopes the video attracts more prayers to the people in Ukraine, and shows others what their daily lives are like in war.Click here to view the full video. "When we are focused in prayer, prayer changes things and so I believe if more people were praying for Ukraine there would be miracles," she said.

One Pittsburgh artist created a video depicting what Ukrainians are going through as their country is at war, and how she believes it relates to the Good Friday Holy Day.

Watch the report from Pittsburgh's South Side: Click the video player above.

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"It was a perfect time, Holy Week, Good Friday in particular, which is when we reflect on Jesus' passion and his suffering and death on the cross," said Kendra McLaughlin, a local artist. "That's what the Stations of The Cross is all about, so I thought it was a perfect fit."

Kendra McLaughlin said she read an article out of America magazine by Jim McDermott and Tatyana Borodina, which shared real-time stories from Ukrainians about life in war.

"I read it and I was moved to tears immediately, it was so right now and it was about people's lives and their suffering, then uniting their suffering to the sufferings of Christ," McLaughlin said.

She said after she read the article, she reached out asking permission to recreate the piece as a video.

"What I tried to do with the video is make it very present so you're with them in those moments while they were struggling," McLaughlin told Pittsburgh's Action News 4. "While they were questioning, while they were doubting, just like Jesus may have felt."

McLaughlin said she hopes the video attracts more prayers to the people in Ukraine, and shows others what their daily lives are like in war.

Click here to view the full video.

"When we are focused in prayer, prayer changes things and so I believe if more people were praying for Ukraine there would be miracles," she said.