The Catholic Church in Colombia (CEC) launched the support campaign Give it to us 2024, whose central day will be next Sunday, August 25, with the motto “To announce Christ, our hope.”
According to the CEC in a note published in its websitethis campaign seeks to “promote prayer and raise funds to make various works of evangelization a reality with an impact in the 78 ecclesiastical jurisdictions of the country.”
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The funds will allow “transmitting the Good News, especially in the midst of situations of uncertainty and need, such as those currently experienced by different territories and population groups in Colombia,” in different areas such as liturgy, catechesis, education, youth, defense of life and the family
The text also specifies that part of the money collected “is sent to the 10 apostolic vicariates that exist in the country, that is, those particular Churches that, due to their isolated geographical and social reality, become mission territories with great needs.”
“Other direct beneficiaries of the collection are the emeritus bishops who, at the end of their episcopal service, some of them, or their jurisdictions, do not have sufficient resources to support their support,” he adds.
As it is also an intense instance of prayer, the bishops of Colombia have proposed a liturgical script for the masses on August 25, which can be accessed HERE.
This liturgical script has an initial monition for the masses next Sunday and a special request that says: “so that the People of God who are pilgrims in Colombia recognize the missionary work of the Church and support it effectively.”
If you want to collaborate with the campaign now, you can do so at this address www.cec.org.co/donanobis or by deposit at:
Banco de Bogotá savings account 078-34683-0, in the name of the Episcopal Conference of Colombia.
Mons. Francisco Javier Múnera Correa, Archbishop of Cartagena and president of the CEC, invites all the faithful to collaborate with this effort:
Walter Sanchez Silva
I have been a husband since 2008. My wife and I have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before he was born. Since I joined ACI Prensa in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Cologne, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and of Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the Family synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Synodality, in 2023. I closely follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers persecution from the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as current ecclesiastical events in the region.