Church in Eastern Europe Special Appeal

The collection helps our brothers and sisters like the people of Armenia, who have experienced persecution and displacement throughout their history and now live scattered throughout the world—many in areas of the former Soviet bloc countries such as Georgia, Russia, and other areas of Eastern Europe. Coping with difficult life circumstances and often isolated from their religious and cultural heritage, Armenian Catholic youth are particularly vulnerable.

To address this situation in 2018, the Armenian Catholic Ordinariate of Eastern Europe, with help from our Collection for the Church in Central and Eastern Europe, hosted nearly 300 Armenian Catholic participants for a week of worship, study, pilgrimage, and fellowship. Not only did participants hear discussions on the theme “Identity, Belonging, and Witnessing,” but together they also participated in sessions on Catholic social teaching, witnessed ordinations and the clothing of seminarians in their vestments, and worshipped at monastic complexes. Your invaluable support of this effort helped build their faith, unity, and solidarity, thereby strengthening Armenian Catholic youth in Eastern Europe.

Please be generous to the collection, because your support helps foster nurturing communities in which youth can share and grow in faith