Project of the Week: Support for the Training of Seminarians in Czech Republic
This year, ACN is supporting these priests again by providing for their training in the Seminary of Prague with a sum of $6,750.
Project of the Week
Project of the Week—Russia
Support for the life and ministry of the 56 religious Sisters With a total area spanning almost 10 million km² the diocese of Saint Joseph, based in Irkutsk, East Siberia, is larger than the entirety of the United States. Scattered across this vast area are no more than approximately 52,000 Catholics, ministered to by a mere […]
Project of the Week — Cameroun
The priests responsible for the selection and formation of these future priests face major and ever-increasing challenges in their work, and so the Douala ecclesiastical province has established a two-year long, ongoing training course for those working in the area of the vocations apostolate and in the minor seminaries, where young boys and youth study and complete their secondary education with a view to possible entry into the major seminary; as well as educators working in the major seminaries.
Project of the Week – Pakistan
Construction of a security wall to protect against terrorist attacks In recent years there have been a succession of terrorist attacks on Christian churches in Pakistan. A very real danger of further attacks looms. As a result, it is imperative that Christians strengthen the security measures around their churches and parish centres. In fact, these […]
Project of the Week – Transportation for the future priests of Brazil
A vehicle for the vocations apostolate and the seminarians of the diocese of Teixeira de Freitas-Caravelas The diocese of Teixera de Freitas-Caravelas is situated in the impoverished northeast of Brazil in the federal state of Bahia, a state which also happens to have the highest percentage of people of ethnic African origin in the country. […]
Project of the Week: Democratic Republic of Congo
Basic Support for Religious Sisters in Maluku Last year the Daughters of Mercy of the Third Order of Saint Francis celebrated the centenary of their foundation. The congregation was established in today’s Croatia in 1920, and eight years after its founding was incorporated into the Third Order of Saint Francis. Today the Daughters of Mercy […]
Project of the Week: Mass Intentions for Nicaragua
Mass Offerings for the sustenance of five contemplative Albertine priests The monks of Saint Albert are a young, home-grown contemplative order of priests and religious in Nicaragua. Until recently there were no male contemplative religious orders in this Central American country. And the five men who have embraced this religious life in Estelí, in the […]
Project of the Week: Training for Religious and Clergy in Sri Lanka
ACN Success Story: Ongoing formation for priests, religious Sisters and laity providing pastoral care to traumatized people. Easter Sunday morning 2019—will forever remain a day of frightful memory. On that day a series of suicide bombs were detonated in three Christian churches and three local hotels in the capital Colombo and elsewhere. Some 300 people lost their […]
Project of the Week: Support for Catholic Radio in Lithuania
Support for the “Little Studio” Catholic radio station in Vilnius All over the world the pandemic provoked by the Coronavirus has demonstrated the importance of Catholic media to the life of the Church in our times. In many countries the only way Catholics have been able to take part in Holy Mass and other communal […]
Project of the Week – Formation of Young Priests in C.A.R and Cameroon
Support for the Formation of 38 Carmelite Novices in Central African Republic and Cameroon It was 50 years ago –1971 – that the first four Carmelite Fathers arrived from Italy in the Central African Republic. These courageous pioneers rolled up their sleeves and got to work in what is still today one of the poorest […]