Aid for Religious

Añatuya is one of the poorest diocese in Argentina. Most of its population of barely 200,000 live widely scattered across an area (26,500 square miles) close to the size of West Virginia. The roads are poor, the people have little access to formal education or medical care, and unemployment and broken families are a widespread problem. Currently there are 81 religious Sisters, two brothers and seven lay missionaries working in the diocese, trying to make a difference. Some of them ...

The Eastern-rite Greek-Catholic Church in Romania is found principally in the region of Transylvania and serves close to 480,000 Catholic faithful. It is in full communion with the Catholic Church in Rome, but as one of the Eastern Catholic churches, it celebrates the Liturgy according to the Byzantine rite. The Sisters of the Mother of God are the oldest Sisters‘ congregation of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church. In 2021, they celebrated the centenary of their foundation. The congregation was originally ...

The convent of the Holy Family in Hoshiv, in West Ukraine, is currently housing 76 refugees from war-torn regions of the country. The Sisters are caring for these refugees, who are housed in almost every available corner of their convent, where they are now slowly recovering from the trauma they have been forced to endure.  Beyond physical support, spiritual and psychological support for the refugees is an important concern for the Sisters, who listen to those they are caring for ...