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

  -order 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