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The news she’s been waiting for – 19 years.

Thanks to the prayers & sacrifices of many, today the Charity Services Coordinator at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio telephoned the NCCL office to inform that their Board has approved the requested (more…)

Eternal memory!

Mama Hagosa Baraki, most venerable & much-beloved Matriarch of The Baraki Family of Irob, Ethiopia, has (more…)

Your urgent prayers for this 103 year-old Matriarch!

Word reaches us today that Mama Hagosa Baraki of Irob, Ethopia, is dying.

She is the 103 year-old Matriarch of The Baraki Family.

Two of her sons, Catholic Priests and long-time collaborators in apostolate, are traveling swiftly (more…)

Appeal for medical treatment for a young Ethiopian woman in the Irob region

A Priest-collaborator from Ethiopia’s poorest region, Irob, has asked this humble apostolate to do, with God’s help, what it can to relieve the suffering of young Hiwot Tgiorgis, a native of Irob: the region in northern Ethiopia hardest-hit by war, drought, and famine — now for decades. (more…)

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Priest’s Mother dying – for want of antibiotics

Can you pitch in to help, for the love of Christ?

And one of his Priests?

For his dying Mother?

Click here to read Father’s desperate appeal here for simple medical treatments and antibiotics to spare her earthly life. (more…)

His kingdom, and their education, for a sip of water.

“And whosoever shall give to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, amen I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.” Mt. x:24

“The name of the disciple” in this case is (more…)

How much worse are the conditions in Irob than Sister Bisirat describes in her letter?

Much worse.

(Read Sister’s full letter, here.)

For starters, the most basic natural need of the children the Sisters teach is (more…)

Thanks to you, she can help them now: for example, to learn to help themselves.

Education is a valuable thing. One of those facts which one can begin to appreciate especially in its absence, and the desperate circumstances that follow.

Sr Bisirat Misgina, a Sister of the Daughters of Charity of St. V.incent de Paul in Ethiopia, can now help the youths for whom she cares. Thanks to your (more…)

Thanks to your charity, she is in recovery.

Mrs. Desta has received the surgery, is no longer in a coma, and has recovered from (more…)

Update: no more crying in pain. Silence now. But a sign of something worse.

Moments ago, at 3:40pm EDT, Father Eyassu Kahsay phoned with an update of his sister’s worsening condition. (more…)