Who Benefits from the National Collections

Your gifts to the national collections support:

• Evangelization programs in the United States through the Black and Indian Missions Collection

• Projects to reduce poverty in the United States through the Catholic Campaign for Human Development

• Fragile Catholic communities in the United States through the Catholic Home Missions Appeal

• Poor and hungry people abroad and immigrants and refugees to the United States through the Catholic Relief Services Collection

• Pastoral projects in Central and South America and in the Caribbean through the Collection for the Church in Latin America

• Catholics rebuilding after 70 years of Communist repression through the Collection for the Church in Central and Eastern Europe

• The Church's world missions through the World Mission Sunday Collection

• Catholic viewers and listeners searching for values in media through the Catholic Communication Campaign

• Elderly religious, including priests, sisters, and brothers through the Retirement Fund for Religious

• The Christians especially and all people and sacred places in the region of Jesus' earthly ministry through the Collection for the Holy Land

• Students who receive scholarships to attend the Catholic University of America

• Worldwide emergency relief through the Peter's Pence Collection