Supporting the Church’s works of social justice, evangelization, catechesis, and national and local institutional development--domestically and around the world--through the generosity of parishioners to annual national appeals.
Following Pope Leo XIV’s historic, 10-day apostolic journey to Africa in April and his call for peace, reconciliation and interreligious dialogue, Catholics in the United States have an opportunity to support those efforts through the Solidarity Fund for the Church in Africa. The Catholic Church in Africa is growing rapidly but has limited capacity to support its pastoral needs.
To help the Church in Africa meet those needs, the bishops of the United States established the Solidarity Fund for the Church in Africa as a concrete way for Catholics in the United States to express a spirit of unity with their brothers and sisters in Africa.
This August, many dioceses across the United States are supporting the Solidarity Fund through a special collection. In 2025, the Solidarity Fund awarded 97 grants totaling more than $3 million to African bishops’ conferences and dioceses. Grants supported evangelization and catechetical activities across the continent. Past contributions helped equip religious sisters and volunteers with bicycles to distribute bibles and rosaries in rural areas without adequate roads, trained church leaders in the prevention of human trafficking, and brought healing and peace to regions affected by war. Please prayerfully consider helping this year by making a gift to the Solidarity Fund at Mass or through your parish e-offertory program.
If you miss your parish collection and wish to support the Solidarity Fund with an online donation, you may do so by visiting #iGiveCatholic. For more information and to find a prayer to offer with your family and friends, visit www.usccb.org/Africa.
"Give and gifts will be given to you; a good measure, packed together, shaken down, and overflowing, will be poured into your lap. For the measure with which you measure will in return be measured out to you." Luke 6:38
Each parish is part of the Church Universal; it is the Catholic Church in a particular place. The bishops of the United States created the national collections so that, by combining resources, we can more effectively carry out our mission as Catholics. Each of these important collections is worthy of your support. Each collection represents our community of faith at work in the world, saving souls and improving lives.
The bishops encourage us to view the national collections in the light of stewardship and of sharing. God has given us our light and our prosperity, all we need and more. It is right and just that we give something back through these collections, helping people in our own country and around the world to live better and to grow in the love of Jesus.
One Church. One Mission.
Archbishop Paul J. Etienne, Archdiocese of Seattle
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