Success Stories
Winter Warmth for 18 Parishes in Ukraine
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The winter of 2025-26 was an especially harsh one for people in Ukraine. Even before that, the soaring energy costs and the widespread destruction of the energy supply system in the war had already caused great suffering, but last winter was even harder. Even the parishes were scarcely able to maintain their heating, and the priests and religious sisters working around the clock to help those in need were facing real risks to their own personal health. Consequently, Bishop Vitaliy ...
A Vehicle for Transporting Elderly and Sick Religious Sisters in Argentina
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The Schönstatt Sisters of Mary have a house in the city of Florencio Valera, in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area, where 17 of their retired and sick sisters dwell. After a life of selfless service of God and neighbor, they are now themselves receiving loving care in the evening of their lives. However, until recently, transport was a major problem. The sisters frequently have to be ferried to and fro to the nearest hospital for specialized medical care, a journey ...
A Chapel for a Village in Indonesia
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A little while ago, we received an appeal for help from Indonesia. The Catholic faithful in the village of Golo Popa on the island of Flores had no church of their own and were forced to gather in the village school on Sundays for Holy Mass. But nevertheless, many faithful came. However, on weekdays, when the school was in use for teaching, they had nowhere to gather to pray and worship, for baptisms, weddings, or other Church activities. Parish priest ...
Renovation of a Convent for Sisters in São Tomé and Príncipe
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The Portuguese-speaking country of São Tomé and Príncipe is the second-smallest nation in Africa. It consists of two principal islands and lies just off the West Coast of the continent. Most of the population of this crisis-ridden nation, whose economy is overwhelmingly dependent on tourism and agriculture, lives in poverty. Since almost everything has to be imported, prices are very high. About 70 percent of its population of approximately 220,000 people are aged 30 or under, and offering them a ...
A New Village Chapel in Madagascar
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Ankililoaka Mission is located in a remote and underdeveloped rural region of southwest Madagascar and is run by the Salesian Fathers. The people here have only recently encountered the Gospel for the first time, and their numbers are now growing. “The efforts of many years are finally beginning to bear fruit,” writes Father Charles Armand Randimbisoa, their parish priest. Again and again, the people of other villages who have found their way to the Catholic faith are appealing to the ...
A Holy Year Pilgrimage of Hope for 51 Young People from the Holy Land
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For the Holy Year 2025, you helped 51 young people from the Holy Land to join with the Universal Church as “Pilgrims of Hope,” visiting Italy and Rome. “In every church we visitedin Italy, we prayed for the benefactors of ACN, whose sacrifices and whose faith made this pilgrimage possible,” the young people subsequently wrote. Among the places they visited were Rome, Assisi, and Padua. Katia, from Zababdeh on the Palestinian West Bank, summarized her impressions: “I have never had ...