Projects in Need
A Vehicle for a Remote Mountain Parish in Guatemala
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The challenges are enormous in the Parish of El Calvaria in central Guatemala. It covers an area of over 780 square miles of mountainous terrain and includes over 100 small, separate communities. Most of the inhabitants are indigenous peoples belonging to the ethnic Kekchi tribe. They are especially disadvantaged and marginalized and live for the most part in deep poverty. Many of their families had been caught up in the bitter civil war from 1968 to 1996, victims of abductions and torture ...
Help the Only Seminary in Uruguay
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In Uruguay, the Catholic Church holds a far less influential position in society than in most other countries of Latin America. Only some 30% of the country‘s 3.5 million citizens declare themselves to be Catholic, and religious faith and practice have been largely relegated to the private sphere. The second smallest country of Latin America, Uruguay has a long history of secularism, a process that began in the middle of the 19th century. To this day, Christian feast days are ...
Support a Youth and Vocations Apostolate Program in Bolivia
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Life is hard in the Apostolic Prelature of Corocoro, located high up in the Andes of Bolivia. People live in widely scattered, often small settlements. Only a handful of the villages or small towns have a population of over 10,000. Close to 80% of the 290,000 people in the prelature live in extreme poverty, and rural exodus is a real problem, as many people move away into the urban centers of the country. Those who depart often only end up ...
Fund the Formation of 53 Novices of the Daughters of Our Lady in Indonesia
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With a population of 272 million, Indonesia is the most populous Muslim nation on earth. Christians account for just 10% of the population, with Catholics at just 3%. While relatively small in number, the Church in Indonesia has good grounds for hope and joy, as there are many vocations to the religious life in this Southeast Asian nation. Typical of this religious dynamism are the Daughters of Our Lady, Queen of the Holy Rosary, a home-grown congregation, founded in 1958 ...
A Motorized Canoe for a Diocese in the Democratic Republic of Congo
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The Diocese of Kindu in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo covers an area of approximately 32,000 square miles—about the size of South Carolina. While vast, it is thinly populated. Some 916,000 people live in the whole territory; roughly 380,000 are Catholics. Since 2021, Bishop François Abeli Muhoya Mutchapa has been the shepherd of the Diocese of Kindu. The bishop, 49, takes his pastoral duties very seriously and wants to be close to his priests and faithful. ...
A New Heating System for Sisters in Romania
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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 ...
Fund a Formation Course for Young Women in India
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The Congregation of the Sisters of the Cross of Chavanod, founded in France, has been present in India ever since 1886. Today, the Sisters are present in the capital, New Delhi, and in 17 of the federal states of the country. The Sisters are dedicated to the service of the poor and marginalized, who they work with in a variety of ways. The Sisters care for street children and for abused and exploited women, for mentally and physically handicapped children, ...
Fund the Construction of a Monastery and Mission Center in the Central African Republic
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The Order of the Discalced Carmelites in the Central African Republic is blessed with many new vocations. Their mission was founded in 1971 by 4 Italian Carmelite Friars, and today, there are 15 fully professed Central African brothers and another 32 young men in various stages of their formation. There are also 7 Italian Carmelite Fathers working permanently in the country. Many people in the Central African Republic live in deep poverty. The country is effectively a failed state, plagued ...
Support a Youth Program in Togo
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The population of Africa is largely young. In Togo, nearly 40 percent of people are under 15 years old. But sadly, many factors lead these young people to crime, substance abuse, pregnancy, and transmissible diseases. Families are impoverished and broken, and they have few economic prospects. Bishop Isaac Gaglo of the Diocese of Aného in Togo is concerned for the young people in his diocese. He would like to provide them with some form of training, so they can make ...
Build a Mother House and Formation Center for a New Local Congregation in Kenya
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The Diocese of Kisumu serves exceptionally poor areas of Kenya. Hunger, illiteracy and lack of medical provisions, combined with desperately poor roads and a lack of clean drinking water, make life difficult for many people in these areas. Having electricity is no more than a dream for most of the local population. Additional suffering is inflicted by certain traditional tribal practices, such as girls being married off at the age of 12, while widows are frequently made to marry the ...