Mass stipends for 18 priests of the Institute of the Incarnate Word Having Holy Mass celebrated on behalf of someone we love is perhaps the most beautiful, and sometimes indeed the only thing we can do, especially for someone who has died. Our offering of a Mass intentions to the priest is in no sense […]
Success Story: A Vehicle for the Poor Clare Sisters in Mbuji-Mayi “Mamu wa Bupole” – Our Lady of Peace – is the name of the Poor Clare Monastery in Mbuji-Mayi. The Democratic Republic of Congo is in urgent need of peace. Moreover, the Holy See announced on March 3 that Pope Francis will visit the […]
The apostolic vicariate of Soddo lies in southern Ethiopia around 385 km south of the capital Addis Ababa. The territory of the vicariate is approximately 47,000 km² in area and has almost 192,000 Catholics today. The number of parishes is growing and there are now 34 of them, together with numerous out-stations, which are increasing more and […]
For several years now, Venezuela has been going through a crisis almost without parallel—a crisis only further exacerbated by the pandemic. Almost 80% of the country’s approximately 33 million citizens today suffer extreme poverty, and many indeed real hunger. There is a dire lack of the basics, including water, electricity and fuel, making life almost […]
Mauritania is one of the poorest countries in the world, and 90% of this arid country in northwest Africa lies within the Sahara desert region – a region that is expanding steadily. Whereas in 1960, when the country gained its independence, roughly 85% of its population were nomadic herders, living from their herds of livestock, […]
Every year, Aid to the Church in Need supports thousands of religious sisters all around the world—over 18,000 of them in the year 2020. The religious Sisters of the Congregation of the “Handmaids of Mary” are among them. The congregation was founded in Madrid in the 19th century. Its special mission is to care for the sick, whether in the hospitals or in their homes. The religious Sisters are doing it entirely free of […]
The parish of St. Padre Pio in Krasnosilka, a village in southern Ukraine around 15 km north of the city of Odessa, is still young and also pretty small. The Catholic community there numbers only around 30 people, mainly families with young children. But other families are beginning to show an interest in the Catholic faith. Yet there is still no church here. Mass […]
This year the parish of Lumbila is celebrating the 70th anniversary of its existence. It is the oldest parish in the diocese of Njombe, in the south of Tanzania, and it lies on the shores of Lake Malawi, the ninth-largest lake in the world. All eight outstations of this parish can be reached by water only, since there are no roads. Until […]
Mass Offerings for 43 priests in the diocese of Saint Joseph, Irkutsk, Russia With an area of 10 million km², the diocese of Saint Joseph in Irkutsk is larger than the entire country of Canada (9,985 million km²). Bordering on China, the Pacific Ocean and Alaska, it stretches across seven different time zones. Scattered across this vast area […]
Support for the distribution of Bibles and a Blooming Catechetical Apostolate The priestly Order of the Imitation of Christ was established in 1919 in Kerala in India. It has also been present in the Horn of Africa since 2009. In fact the order now has three monasteries in Ethiopia, in the diocese of Endibir and […]
