APPEALS

I can’t tell you their names or the locations of their missions. You must trust me when I say that lives are at stake. Three brave Franciscan friars serve the remaining Christian community in three [...]

While I was growing up, we lived in a humble housing unit modeled after a military barracks. Our home was always full with my parents and 8 children living under the same roof. As a [...]

If you’re looking for a child to give a gift to, I have the perfect one in mind. His name is Mutha Kumar and he is nine-years-old. His father died from HIV/AIDS when Mutha was [...]

In the coastal cities of Palu and Donggala, home to about 350,000 people, the church has been washed away and so has almost everything else.  On Friday, September 28, an earthquake hit the island of [...]

Will you make an orphaned child’s Christmas wish come true? Dharma was an eight-year-old orphan living in the village of Attipattu near Chennai, India. Surviving childhood and growing up in the impoverished slums of India [...]

What a blessing you are to Franciscan missionaries around the world! Thank you for the gift of friendship. I trust in your ongoing friendship as we look ahead to the rest of the year. As [...]