Working in the Archdiocese of Huancayo, high in the Peruvian Andes, are 26 sisters from eight different congregations. This vast region covering around 15,145 km²—as large as some small countries—is home to only about 743,000 people, 71.5% of whom are Catholics. Consequently, each priest must minister to more than 8,000 faithful on average who are […]
Fuel for a pastoral boat in the Amazon Since 2006, three Capuchin priests have been working in the parish of Saint Francis of Assisi in Belém do Solimões in the Amazon region of Brazil. Their parish includes 72 riverside villages and settlements, ranging up to 400 km in distance from the parish centre and accessible […]
A vehicle for a parish in the Andes The Diocese of Huancavelica is one of the poorest in Peru and is situated at an altitude of around 4000 m (13,000 feet) in the Andes Mountains. It has 28 parishes, ministered to by 49 priests. The parish of Acobamba includes over 90 villages. Roughly half of […]
Help for the training of 15 seminarians Brazil has long been an overwhelmingly Catholic country, but this is changing. Today, only around 64% of its 213 million people are still Catholics. The difficult situation in the country, marked by corruption, unemployment, economic crisis, and environmental destruction, has allowed many to fall prey to the false […]
A Motorboat for Pastoral Outreach in the Amazon Region Father Washington Dioleno Araújo Taveres is a happy man. Thanks to your generous help, he now has the mode of transportation he so urgently needed for his ministry. His parish of Saint John the Baptist, headquartered in Curralinho, Brazil, is located in the Amazon Delta. The […]
The parish of Christ the King in Corcovado in Patagonia is still quite new, having only been established in May of 2021. Before that, the area belonged to a larger parish, whose main office was nearly 75 kilometres away – too far away to be able to minister adequately to the faithful. The new parish […]
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 […]
The community of Mar a Dentro in Brazil, needed a car to transport materials and for its many charitable projects and pastoral programs, both in the city and in other towns and villages that are accessible by road. The roads are poor and the journeys are often long. See how ACN Benefactors have helped them!
The Latin American Saint, Padre Pio, once foretold: “When a million children pray the Rosary together, then the world will change.” In Uruguay the Catholic Church has a much more limited influence on society than in other countries of Latin America. Barely half the inhabitants of this, the second smallest country in Latin America, profess […]
Brazil A new parish church amidst the sugarcane The town of Camela has a population of around 30,000 souls, and lies in the midst of the vast sugarcane plantations of northeastern Brazil. The life of the people here is marked by great poverty and grave social problems manifesting in widespread violence and drug […]
