In this Jubilee Year, Pope Francis invites you to strengthen your hope through concrete works of charity. Persecuted Christians, migrants, the sick and imprisoned in countries in need come to you to tell you that they need you. You can be for them comfort, encouragement and strength. Help them!
Pilgrims of hope for the suffering Church
Entire families, the elderly, young people and children, lay people, priests and religious make up this faithful Church, which suffers so much and is so eager for your help. You can be a pilgrim of Hope throughout this Jubilee Year, with Aid to the Church in Need! This pilgrimage will be an opportunity for you to meet God through the most needy and by the hand of Holy Mary, Mother of Hope. Be a pilgrim of hope. Help them.
They need your hope
Walk with us through the scenarios that Christian hope embraces and that the Church proposes to us to celebrate this Jubilee. We show you four scenarios of need, which are Jesus’ favorite and which are also at the heart of this Pontifical Foundation: The sick, the displaced, prisoners and Christians persecuted because of their faith. They are counting on you!
With your help, they will have the resources they need to live:
MIGRANTS
They need infrastructure where they can live
PRISONERS
They need formation and spiritual accompaniment
SICK
They need medical assistance
PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS
They need to unload their pain, forgive and regain peace.
The hope of displaced people
A house for Fr. Francis and Fr. Joseph in South Sudan
Fr. Francisco and Fr. José have arrived in South Sudan as refugees. This country is one of the places in Africa with the greatest number of migrants, because it hosts thousands of Christians fleeing persecution in neighboring Sudan. In South Sudan “the harvest is plentiful”, but the ministers are too few to cover the pastoral work with the displaced. The Diocese of Wau has assigned Father Francis and Father Joseph to the parish of St. Kizito in Ngodakala. These refugee priests are asking for your help because they need a modest house to be able to stay there with the many displaced people they serve, and a small chapel to carry on their pastoral mission.
“May the Word of the Lord resound in our hearts: ‘I was passing through, and they lodged me’, for ‘whenever they did it to the least of my brethren, they did it to me’ (Mt 25:35.40)”
Pope Francis
The hope of the prisoners
Formation and spiritual accompaniment in Ecuador's prisons
Street gangs wreak havoc among the youth of Guayaquil, and many of them end up in delinquency and then in prison. From the archdiocese of this city, a group of committed lay people wants to bring God to Guayaquil’s eight detention centers, where more than 12,000 prisoners live. These pastoral agents need you to meet the expenses of this program: from the purchase of Bibles and catechisms to the adequacy of security in the prison chapels.
«Prisoners, deprived of their freedom, experience every day the harshness of confinement, the affective void, the restrictions imposed, the lack of respect. In the Jubilee Year we are called to be tangible signs of hope.»
Pope Francis
The hope of the sick
Medical care for nuns who have given their lives to others in Ukraine
The Basilian Sisters in Ukraine have been the maternal pillar of the Church in this country through education, care for the sick and assistance to the needy for decades. Their daily work continues to be a manifestation of love and service to God and to others, even though the war has increased the economic and social difficulties of the sisters. Some, now elderly, suffer from chronic illnesses or require constant medical care. They need you. Sister Olga Lajun, at 104 years of age, reflects the spirit of endurance and faith of the Basilian Sisters.
“Caring for the sick is a hymn to human dignity, a song of hope that requires concerted action by all of society.”
Pope Francis
The hope of persecuted Christians
A sanctuary where to find peace, reconciliation and forgiveness
Pakistan is one of the countries in the world with the greatest religious persecution of Christians. Archbishop Arshad, Archbishop of Islamabad-Rawalpindi, wants to build a place of pilgrimage where Christians can find rest, peace and prayer, and where they can offer Our Lady of Peace their sufferings due to hatred and persecution. The shrine project includes a museum with a spiritual journey through the history of Christianity in Pakistan, to show today’s Christians that others preceded them in suffering and finally conquered in Christ. They are counting on you!
“The most convincing witness of hope is offered to us by the martyrs who, firm in their faith in the risen Christ, knew how to renounce earthly life so as not to betray their Lord.”
Pope Francis
With you, Aid to the Church in Need is Hope
With your help, Aid to the Church in Need will be able to bring hope to so many Christians in need, discriminated against and persecuted because of their faith who, with their lives, show us every day their courageous and unconditional dedication to the cause of Christ.
They are counting on you!
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