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Church Support for the People of Ukraine

At a Catholic seminary in western Ukraine, hundreds of people who fled Russian bombs in the east are receiving shelter, food, medical care, as well as spiritual and emotional comfort, thanks to Catholic parishioners in the United States.

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A Little Sun in Armenia

Artyom is now 29. Before visiting Emili Aregak Center for the first time in 2019, he was isolated and uncommunicative. Due to Artyom's cerebral palsy, he hadn't finished school. As a young adult, he hardly ever left the house.

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Collection Supports the Faith in Far-Flung Diocese in Latin America

Pope Francis frequently reminds us that the essential missionary character of the Church is to go forth. He said in his Angelus address of September 20, 2020: “The Church needs to be like God; always going out.”

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Hope for Refugee Children on the Border of Colombia and Venezuela

“It is not enough to say we are Christians. We must live the faith, not only with our words, but with our actions.” 

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Help and Hope for Catholics in Kyrgyzstan

As Father Anthony Corcoran visited a home for the elderly in Kyrgyzstan, which was once a Soviet gulag colony, an old man shouted out, “Priest! I am Polish!”

The man, who had not seen a Catholic priest for six decades, had kept the faith through communist persecution by counting the Rosary on his fingers. He pleaded to receive the sacraments.

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Q&A with Fr. Anthony Corcoran, an American priest serving Catholics in Kyrgyzstan

Although Catholics gathered in various places throughout the country during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the first Catholic parish in modern-era Kyrgyzstan was officially established in 1956. It was soon afterward destroyed by the communist regime of the Soviet Union; the pastor was returned to prison, and the most active faithful were dispersed into remote places far from the capital.

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