Projects in Need
Support for the Life and Apostolate of 54 Sisters in Ukraine
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The congregation of the Holy Family has 54 sisters in Ukraine. They have nine convents altogether and perform a range of different duties, including running an orphanage, a retreat house, and a center offering psychological and spiritual help and accompaniment to those in need. They also work as catechists and sacristans in the parishes, while some work in the hospitals or care for handicapped children. Three of the sisters are lecturers at the Catholic University in Lviv. And since the ...
Mass Stipends for Missionaries in Ethiopia
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Ethiopia is a multi-ethnic state. In the Horn of Africa, no fewer than 80 different ethnic groups live together, speaking as many different languages. And Christianity in Ethiopia has almost 2,000 years of history. Roughly 45 percent of the population belongs to the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, whereas Catholic Christianity is still relatively young in the country, and Catholics today account for an extreme minority (just one percent) of its 112 million people. Yet while Christianity in Ethiopia has ...
Help to Repair and Extend a Church in Zambia
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The Spiritans, or Holy Ghost Missionaries, have been working in Zambia since 1971. The congregation sends its priests wherever pastoral work is particularly difficult, especially in remote and underdeveloped regions. In the Diocese of Ndola, a new parish was recently established in the village of Baluba, which is under the care of the Spiritan Fathers. The number of believers is growing rapidly in this overwhelmingly rural region, and many people there are very involved in the Church. But their modest ...
Help for the Training of Nine Seminarians in Burkina Faso
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Ever since the end of 2015, northern and eastern Burkina Faso have been the focus of violent Islamist terrorism. Today, two-thirds of the West African nation is suffering from this terrorism, and two million people have been forced to flee their homes. In 2019, attackers began deliberately targeting the Christian faithful and their churches. And the violence of the jihadist attackers against priests, religious, and ordinary Christian faithful has steadily increased in intensity ever since. Yet despite this threat to ...
Retreat Days and Spiritual Accompaniment for People in Lebanon
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For over five years now, Lebanon has been going through a profound crisis. Many people have become impoverished and are experiencing feelings of anger, helplessness, and despair. Many families are suffering great tensions, and the ongoing conflict in the Middle East has only brought them greater fears. People are leaving the country whenever they can, and sadly, the suicide rate has also increased. Mother Maguy Adabashy, the general superior of the Missionary Sisters of the Most Blessed Sacrament, has written ...
Support for Religious Sisters Caring for Vulnerable People in Guatemala
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The congregation of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Virgin Mary and Saint Catherine of Siena was established in 1914 in Colombia. As a young teacher, Laura Montoya – who was canonized in 2013 – felt the call to care for the indigenous tribal peoples in the Colombian rainforest and teach their children. Together with five other women, including her own mother, she devoted herself to this demanding task. Initially, she was met with great opposition in society, and many ...
Refurbishing a Seminary Kitchen and Refectory in Sarajevo
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Thanks to your generous help, we have been able to support the seminary in Sarajevo for many years now. First established back in 1890, it has lived through difficult times. Under communism, it was closed, and although it was able to reopen following political changes, with the Bosnian war from 1992 to 1995, the situation quickly became too difficult, and seminarians were forced to continue their studies abroad. Today, the seminary is once again a beacon of light for the ...
Help to Build a Novice House for a Carmelite Convent in Peru
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The Carmelite convent in Chachapoyas, the capital city of the Amazonas region of northwest Peru, was established in 2015 and is therefore celebrating its 10th anniversary. It is consecrated to the Infant Jesus of Prague and to Saint Joseph. The devotion to the Infant Jesus of Prague is characteristic of the Carmelite Order and is very much alive to this day, among both the male and female branches of the Carmelites. The famous statue of the Child Jesus, clothed as ...
Help for the Training of Four Seminarians in South Africa
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The Diocese of Klerksdorp is in South Africa’s Northwest Province, an area with a population of 1.8 million souls, of whom roughly 117,000 are Catholic. They are ministered to by 31 priests. In the past, there were only very few vocations in the diocese, with the result that even those who did perhaps feel a calling to the priesthood were very reluctant, fearing that they might be quite alone in the seminary. This meant that there were still fewer vocations. ...
Help with Roofing Materials for 15 Village Chapels in Mozambique
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Mozambique, in southeast Africa, is one of the poorest countries on Earth. A brutal civil war, which lasted from 1977 to 1992, caused massive damage to it, damage that is still visible to this day. Large sections of the country’s infrastructure are still in ruins, added to which is the damage done by natural disasters in this region of tropical storms, droughts, and flooding. And since 2017, many parts of the country, especially in the North, have been devastated by ...