Success Stories
A New Marian Shrine in India
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In November 2023, the cathedral parish of Balasore in India celebrated the Golden Jubilee of its founding. From this occasion, the desire was born in the community to establish a Marian shrine on the cathedral grounds. For until then, there was no place of devotion where the faithful could gather to express their love and reverence for the Mother of God, pray together, and light candles before her image. The cathedral grounds are, in fact, ideally suited for this purpose, ...
Two Outboard Motors for a Pastoral Riverboat in Colombia
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The apostolic vicariate of Guapi lies in southwestern Colombia, on the Pacific coast. The population here is mainly a mixture of Afro-Colombians and indigenous people. There is extreme poverty and widespread violence, and ever since the 1980s, illegal drug growing and trafficking have flourished, taking advantage of the strategic coastal position as an import and export point. The region has also, for decades, been the theatre of violent confrontations between the FARC guerrilla movement and the Colombian National Army. As ...
A New Chapel in Rural BoliviaÂ
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The Parish of Saint Francis Xavier is situated in a rural region of the Diocese of San Ignacio de Velasco in the tropical eastern part of Bolivia. The people here live mainly on traditional subsistence farming; the region is largely undeveloped and they are very poor. Juancito is one of the parish outstations. It is a community of about 500 souls and only accessible on unmade roads. Juancito is also the center to which, on feast days, the other Catholic ...
A Minibus for a Seminary in Equatorial Guinea
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Equatorial Guinea is a former Spanish colony on the west coast of central Africa. It is a relatively small country, with an area of only slightly more than 10,000 miles and a population of just 1.4 million people. It has immense oil reserves and is therefore by no means one of the poorest countries in Africa. However, the only ones who profit from this wealth are a small elite, while the vast majority of the people still live in deep ...
Help for 25 Parishes in War-Torn Dioceses of Ukraine
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The Diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhzhia has especially suffered from the war in eastern Ukraine. Of the 70,000 or so Latin Catholics who previously lived in the diocese, only about 2,500 still remain. The rest have been forced to flee, either into central or western Ukraine or further abroad. Bishop Pavlo Honcharuk tells us that in many parishes, around 90 percent of the faithful have left, adding, however, that “priests have stayed on and are ministering to the remaining Catholic faithful, and ...
A Parish House for a New Parish in India
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In eastern India, the parish of Chondonpara in the Diocese of Tura is still very new, having been founded in October of 2024. They were also able to open a parish house at the same time, thanks to the generosity of our benefactors, who contributed nearly $42,000. They celebrated with a great feast, which was attended by the bishop, many priests and religious sisters from the diocese, and a huge throng of the Catholic faithful. The new parish was created ...