Projects in Need
A Car for Parish Outreach in Burundi
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Burundi is one of the smallest countries in Africa, at just under 11,000 square miles, but one of the most densely populated, with almost 12 million people. Ranked the poorest country in the world, it has been plagued by multiple genocides and a civil war that lasted from 1993 to 2005. To this day, Burundi is politically unstable, and escalating violence is a risk at any time. The country’s Catholic Church is relatively young. The first missionaries arrived here 125 ...
A Car for Father Darko’s Parish in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Father Darko Anušić has a heavy workload and is constantly on the move, since he is responsible for two parishes in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina, for giving religious instruction in several of the region’s schools, and for the care of two cemeteries. He also brings goods to the needy, visits the sick and the elderly, and helps out in neighboring parishes. In order to complete all these tasks, he depends on a reliable vehicle. Not only does he have to ...
Help an Apostolate in Paraguay
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Sister Blanca and Sister Emilia need your help. They belong to the religious family of the Salesians of Don Bosco and are devoted to the education of young people. Twelve sisters in this community currently live and work in the Apostolic Vicariate of Chaco, in northern Paraguay. They care for the young; they support families and the poor; and they visit the elderly and sick. But their work is not easy. This part of Paraguay is vast, covering approximately 37,000 ...
Mass Stipends for Priests in Ukraine
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The war in Ukraine has impacted the entire country, including areas where there has been no fighting. As a result, even in the west of the country, people have become poorer and many have lost their jobs, and pension and social security payments are struggling to keep up. At the same time, food and living costs have risen sharply. Many priests have also been hard-hit, since the faithful can no longer contribute to their support. This is happening even as ...
Fund an All-Terrain Vehicle for a Parish in Indonesia
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With over 272 million inhabitants, Indonesia is the most populous Muslim nation in the world. An island nation, Indonesia is made up of over 17,000 separate islands, some 6,000 of which are inhabited, and this distribution affects the religious makeup of local areas. The island of Flores, for example, is mostly Catholic, while a majority of the close-to 50,000 inhabitants of the island of Sumba are Protestant Christians. The reason for this goes dates to 1913, under the Dutch colonial ...
Help Fund a New Parish House for a Poor Parish in Sierra Leone
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Sierra Leone has suffered a painful history in recent times. Between 1991 and 2002, half the population were uprooted and forced to flee as the result of a bloody civil war which left thousands of people murdered. To this day the consequences of that conflict are still evident. Poverty, unemployment and corruption mark daily life in this West African nation, which is now among the poorest in the world. The situation was further exacerbated by natural disasters–notably the Ebola epidemic ...
Help for Refugees Living in a Church in Ukraine
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The war in Ukraine has prompted the greatest wave of refugees since the Second World War. Almost 15 million people have been forced to flee, 7 million of them within their own country. Many have found shelter in Church-run facilities. Currently 98 women and children are housed in the Catholic Pidlyute youth center in Ivano-Frankivsk, in West Ukraine, and Archbishop Volodymyr Vijtyshyn has written to ask our help in caring for them. “The worst thing,” he writes, “is that the ...
A Vehicle for a Parish in Syria Hit by the Earthquake
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In February of 2023, a powerful earthquake struck the region of southern Turkey and northern Syria. At least 50,000 people died, and a huge number of buildings were destroyed. Among the areas most hard-hit was the city of Aleppo in Syria, already devastated by the civil war in the country. Father Hugo Fabian Alaniz, the priest of Our Lady of the Annunciation parish, was clearly protected by his guardian angel, since he himself was unhurt, but his car, which was ...
Help Renovate a Convent in India
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The Handmaids of Mary are a women‘s congregation indigenous to India that was founded in 1944 to care for those on the margins of society. They have always given special care to women and children of the disadvantaged ethnic minorities and the dalits (the former “untouchables”) on the bottom rung of society. Today the Sisters are active in 18 different Indian dioceses. In the Diocese of Roukela, they have a house in Telendih. The people here are mainly from ethnic ...
Support Religious and Lay Missionaries in a Struggling Diocese in Argentina
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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 ...