Appeal of the month

Sister Nabila and her six fellow nuns, and a parish priest, continue to look after 512 Christians – including 120 children and 84 faithful over the age of 65.

All while intense military conflicts and shelling is occurring in the area surrounding the church, and a critical shortage of food and clean water is affecting the region.

A source that wishes to remain anonymous told us, “Children are suffering from a virus that causes nausea and diarrhea – and some of the elderly are facing serious illnesses that require immediate hospitalization. This is impossible at the moment.”

Out of approximately 1,000 Christians remaining in Gaza, 30 have lost their lives due to the conflict – 19 have been killed by military action and 11 have died due to a lack of medical care.

Your gift today ensures that our religious will not run out of supplies, basic supplies, like food, water and medicine.

News of the Suffering and persecuted

Burnt houses and burning furniture on the street 16.08.2023.
UP to 15 church buildings have been attacked and hundreds of Christian homes destroyed after extremists went on the rampage. The incident follows an accusation of blasphemy against a Christian cleaner accused of desecrating the Qur’an and insulting the Prophet of Islam.
Mass exodus as mob burns churches and homes in Jaranwala - Pakistan, August 2023
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Basic necessities assistance (Phase 1/2) for the victims of Jaranwala after aggression from extremists on August the 16th, 2023

Pakistan bishop: No justice for Jaranwala

Bishop Rehmat said, “More than 300 people were arrested [following the attack], but it is unlikely that they will face justice. Slowly, they have started releasing them. Nobody has been charged.”
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Sudan: War leaves country without seminarians

Though a minority, the Church has always been a “safe harbor” for the population, and at the start of the war, . Now this refuge is fragile.
Haiti Election Protests on December 8 2010
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Seminary looted as security worsens in Haiti

“For over six hours, the bandits continued to plunder, burn, and steal. Finally, the religious and the staff members managed to escape. Some of them took refuge in the formation house, a 30-minute walk from the seminary, and others went into the streets, or in the cathedral, beside the school,."
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In Ukraine, everyday life is the Way of the Cross

Jesus was executed. Nailed to a cross. Inna felt her husband die twice. He was killed in the first stages of the war in 2014, and the city of Irpin put up a poster in his honor. She later learned that occupying soldiers shot through the poster. She felt like they killed him a second time.
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A kidnapped priest’s Way of the Cross in Nigeria

"I realized later that I had been quite lucky. The driver of the car immediately after mine was shot dead, and if the priest who had wanted to accompany me had been in the car, he almost certainly would have been killed as well."
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India: Reports of increased Christian persecution

According to the United Christian Forum for Human Rights (UCF), an Indian ecumenical organization that tracks incidents of persecution against Christians of all denominations, at least 161 cases were reported in just the first three months of 2024.

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Projects of the month

The seminarains singing during the holy mass

At the Major Seminary of the Archdiocese of Sarajevo in Sarajevo.

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Formation aid for 15 seminarians at the Major Seminary of the Archdiocese of Sarajevo for the academic year 2021/2022

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Trip of CRTN to Bosnia-Herzegowina, 2021 - for the Spot and Feature for the Lent Campaign 2022

Help for the Training of Seminarians in Bosnia 

Many Catholics from Bosnia and Herzegovina have now left their country. Since the last Bosnian war, which ended in 1995, ...
Delivering food, medicines and industrial goods to the more remote homes, such as Pidlyute and Zarichchya with the present old truck and sometimes with a rental truck. 
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Minivan for the Archeparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk

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A Minibus for Refugees in Ukraine  

The Archieparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk is in western Ukraine, where many refugees from elsewhere in the country have fled to for ...
Brothers praying in front of the Blessed Sacrament.
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Repair of the convent our Lady of Guadalupe in Belén, Heredia, (Conventual Friars OFMConv) Central American Postulancy (chapel and dining room)

Renovation of a Formation House in Costa Rica  

The monastery of Our Lady of Guadalupe is in the city of Belén in Costa Rica, and it also serves ...

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