Success Stories
A New Chapel for a Village in India
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The parish of Christ the King is in eastern India. The parish is very active, especially in its work with children and young adults. There is a Sunday school, as well as numerous youth groups and a particular effort to foster love for Mary and the Mass. There are many altar servers, and the liturgies are celebrated in song, with traditional musical instruments. The women organize themselves in prayer groups, Bible readings, and visits to the sick and needy; the men ...
Liturgical and Theological Literature for Seminarians in the Congo
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Twenty young men from the Diocese of Bokungu-Ikela are training for the priesthood in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This diocese, which covers an area of over 15,000 square miles, is almost as big as Switzerland or the Netherlands, but with barely a million inhabitants; it lies in a tropical rainforest, in a poor region of the country that has sadly seen many armed conflicts. And since the diocese does not have a seminary, the seminarians must travel several miles, ...
A New Chapel for a Village in Peru
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The Parish of the Sacred Heart in Peru includes 34 rural communities, scattered along the banks of the Rio Mayo. The village of Los Angeles is one of the biggest in the parish, with around 700 residents; it is 70 percent Catholic. It takes the parish priest about 75 minutes to get from the parish center to the village, and the roads are unmade. As part of this trip, he even uses a raft. The village once had its own ...
A Pastoral Center for a Diocese in India
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The Diocese of Diphu lies in the state of Assam in northern India. This is a region of great poverty and home to many indigenous tribes. In fact, most of them still adhere to their traditional tribal religions. There are about 70,000 Catholics in the diocese. They are a minority in the country, at just over five percent of the total population. And most Catholics have only embraced Christianity in recent decades, so there is still a great need to ...
Support for 28 Sisters in Cameroon
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The Diocese of Kribi is in southern Cameroon, on the Gulf of Guinea. It covers an area of some 4,300 square miles, and roughly half of its 250,000 inhabitants are Catholic. There are 28 sisters in the diocese, from eight different congregations. They care for those in need, and especially for children, mothers, the elderly, the sick, and indigenous people, formerly known as pygmies, who live in particularly precarious circumstances. At the same time, the sisters are also involved in ...
A Vehicle for a Parish in Indonesia
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Father Jakob Umbu Warata, the Provincial of the Redemptorist Fathers, asked that we help his fellow priests in the parish of Saint Andrew Ngallu, in Sumba, Indonesia. They were in urgent need of a sturdy, all-terrain vehicle, and thanks to our donors’ generosity, we were able to raise $21,713 for it. Now, Father Jakob has written to thank us: “Our heartfelt thanks for your efforts and your help. We are most grateful, and we are praying for you all. May God ...