Three motorized rickshaws for pastoral work in Mitú The Vicariate Apostolic of Mitú lies in the Amazon region of eastern Colombia in an area covering over 54,000 km². Roughly a third of its population of 45,000 people live in the town of Mitú itself. The remainder live scattered throughout this jungle-clad region and most of them …
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ACN Project of the Week-Uganda
Help for the training of 30 seminarians The Diocese of Nebbi lies in the north of Uganda, in a region that suffered greatly from the internal warfare between the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and the Ugandan government from 1987 to 2006. Whole areas of this region were devastated and destroyed, and the consequences are still …
ACN Project of the Week – Colombia
Subsistence aid for four missionary sisters The sisters of Saint Vincent have been working since 1997 in Vitoco, in Southwest Colombia. Their mission in this mountain region covers eight Indigenous reserves and 36 villages. Distances are long and the roads are difficult. Even with a car, it takes two to three hours to reach some …
ACN Project of the Week – Mexico
Help for the training of 27 seminarians, Diocese of Cancún-Chetumal After Brazil, Mexico, with its close to 130 million inhabitants, ranks as the second most populous Catholic country in the world. However, the number of Catholics is dwindling. Although almost 96% of its population profess themselves Christians, only around 72% now describe themselves as Catholics. …
ACN Project of the Week-Cameroon
Subsistence aid for three religious sisters The congregation of the Missionary Sisters of Divine Providence was founded in Nigeria in the year 2000. The sisters visit the sick and elderly in their homes, caring for them and bringing them Holy Communion. They also support families and women with practical help and advice and are active …
ACN Project of the Week – Bosnia and Herzegovina
Help for the training of 14 seminarians in Sarajevo Many of the Catholics in Bosnia and Herzegovina have now left their country. In fact, their numbers have halved since the last Bosnian War, which ended in 1995. Today, there are only around 400,000 Catholic faithful left, accounting for barely 15% of the total population. Sadly, …
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ACN Project of the Week – Costa Rica
Renovation of a formation house refectory The monastery of Our Lady of Guadalupe is situated in the city of Belén in Costa Rica and also serves as the formation house for the postulants of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual, in Central America. At present, there are six brothers there—two of them fully professed, as …
ACN Project of the Week – Mexico
Mass intentions for Diocese of Tapachula priests Mexico is a land of contrasts. Some areas are popular tourist destinations, while others are being torn apart by bloody, drug-related warfare and plagued by abductions, extortions, robberies, and murders. And the Catholic Church is not spared this violence. In fact, Mexico is one of the most dangerous …
ACN Project of the Week – Brazil
Subsistence aid for 30 religious sisters The Diocese of Cajazeiras lies in the northeast of Brazil, widely regarded as one of the poorest regions in the country. It is a region afflicted by severe droughts, and the people of this very rural area are for the most part very poor. Not surprisingly, the diocese also …
Project of the Week – Benin
Support for the Benedictine sisters in Parakou The Benedictine convent of Notre-Dame de l’Écoute was founded in 2005 in the Diocese of Natitingou, in the north of Benin. Originally, all the sisters were from France, but there are now also African sisters, and there are more young women from Benin interested in sharing the Benedictine …