Pontifical Good Friday Collection 2024

Pope Francis has asked our parish to support the Pontifical Good Friday Collection, which helps Christians in the Holy Land, where they now make up less than 2% of the population. Your support is essential to help the Church minister in parishes, provide Catholic schools, and offer religious education. The Pontifical Good Friday Collection also helps preserve the sacred shrines of Christianity, including those in Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem, to name only a few.

The pandemic hit Christians in the Holy Land particularly hard. Most of them depend on pilgrimages for work. The war made their situation even more dramatic. In these times of crisis, the Pontifical Good Friday Collection is necessary to met the basic needs of the People of God still living in this Land and to maintain a Christian presence where the Church was born.
When you contribute to the Pontifical Good Friday Collection, you join with Catholics around the world in solidarity with the Church in the Holy Land. Please be generous!

For more information about Christians in the Holy Land, visit myfranciscan.org or custodia.org.

Last year's Pontifical Good Friday Collection...

• Supported 23 parishes and three academic institutions
• Provided a home in Bethlehem for 30 children from homes facing domestic violence
• Offered more than 500 scholarship for university education
• Helped keep schools open for over 10,000 pre-K through grade 12 students
• Supported 53 friars preparing to enter the priesthood
• Restored and maintained 640 houses/apartments for Christian families
• Provided assistance to more than 9,000 families through weekly food baskets
• Employed more than 1,000 workers in the Holy Land
• Preserved 80 shrines from the life of Jesus, the Apostles, and the prophets
• Continued the work of restoration of the floor at the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher, the holiest place on earth