Projects in Need
Help for the Training of Seven Seminarians in Chad
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The apostolic vicariate of Mongo in eastern Chad serves an area of almost two million square miles. The majority of the country is Muslim, and Christians are a small minority. The vast area of the vicariate is divided into six parishes. The Catholic faithful are served by over a dozen priests, but most of them are not natives of the country, and two of them are older than 80. The formation of local priests is a top priority for Bishop ...
A New Car for a Parish in Kenya
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The missionary congregation of Saint Francis of Sales was founded in France in the mid-1800s. Today, it has 1,500 members and is particularly active in the field of education, from primary school to secondary and vocational school. The brothers of the congregation are also dedicated to the poor and disadvantaged. They work in about 30 countries, including Kenya. The parish of Saint Michael of Chera is in central Kenya and has been run by the Salesian Fathers since 1997. It ...
Events for the Anniversary of a Parish in Albania
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2023 marks the 30th anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s visit to Albania. On that occasion, he recalled the many priests who suffered under communism and were killed for administering the Sacraments, as well as the unknown number of Catholics who had likewise been imprisoned and murdered because of their faith. At that time, the dictator Enver Hodscha had banned all religion, and in 1967, had even made Albania the world‘s first “atheist state,” something no other state had done, ...
A Vehicle for Religious Sisters in Ukraine
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Three sisters of the congregation of Saint Joseph live and work in the city of Starokostyantyniv in West Ukraine. The sisters visit the elderly and the sick; they distribute food to the needy; they organize catechetical sessions, retreat days, and other parish activities. But their focus is the care of young people, from both refugee families displaced by the war on Ukraine and the local parish. The sisters run camps for them in the summer, giving them the chance to ...
A Pastoral Program in Northern Iraq
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Strengthening families, grounding the young in their faith, providing a Christian education: these are the great priorities of Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Najib Michael Moussa of Mosul and Akre, Iraq, in the cradle of Christianity in the Middle East. Accordingly, he has increased family care and catechetical instruction. One of these projects is the Jesus the King Catechetical Center in the autonomous region of Kurdistan, where many Christian families are now living, including those who fled Mosul when ISIS invaded in ...
Support for the Life and Apostolate of Sisters in Angola
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In 1992, the Franciscan Sisters of Saint Joseph first arrived in Angola. Today, they have established six convents in the country and provide precious help to the needy and suffering people there. The congregation, which was founded in Germany in the 19th century, is devoted to the sick and the elderly, as well to education in mission areas. There are six sisters working in Malanje, a city in northern Angola. Their mission is a great blessing to the poor here. ...
Help for the Training of Seminarians in Colombia
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This year, the seminary of the Priestly Fraternity of the Servants of the Holy Spirit celebrated its 40th anniversary. Those four decades have seen 66 priests ordained, and they now serve in 17 dioceses of Colombia, as well as in six other countries: Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Bolivia, Spain, and the United States. Today, there are 32 young men training in the seminary. Their rector, Father Amaury Antonio Mestra Duarte, writes, “They are working together for the renewal of ...
A Convent for Missionary Sisters in Bolivia
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The apostolic prelature of Corocoro lies high in the Andes, in one of the poorest parts of Bolivia, where 80 percent of the population live in extreme poverty. Clean drinking water and adequate nutrition are by no means guaranteed, and neither is medical care. Most people live in small, remote villages that are difficult to access, with roads that are dangerous and often impassable in the rainy season. The Missionary Sisters of Jesus the Eternal Priest are a congregation founded ...
A Pastoral Program to Strengthen Church Life in India
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The Diocese of Shimoga in southwest India is highly active, despite having just 18,000 Catholics in a total population of over 5.6 million. It has set up various committees to deal with a range of particularly important issues, including the ongoing formation of priests, religious, and laity, so they are equipped to help the people and promote the Gospel. “The Church in Shimoga needs leaders who can help advance the mission of our Redeemer Jesus Christ and extend our networks,” ...
Support the Studies of 48 Seminarians in Chad
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Chad is one of the largest countries in the world, at roughly three times the size of Texas. But with only 16.3 million inhabitants, it is sparsely populated, and since Chad lies partly in the Sahara, it is underdeveloped. Another challenge facing this overwhelmingly Muslim country is the spread of radical Islam and extremist threats. The Diocese of Sarh is in southern Chad, in a region with 220,000 Catholics and a total population of about 1.6 million. There are 58 ...