Can Per Christum help to keep an Iraqi Catholic Seminary open?

 Can PC help to keep an Iraqi Catholic Seminary open?

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 Project Number: 11909
Project Title: Keep Babel Open
Description: Baghdad’s Babel College for Philosophy and Theology, which educates Iraq’s seminarians, has been forced to relocate to Arbil. Help keep its doors open.
Amount requested: $15,000.00
Contributions from donors: $4,244.10
Amount needed to complete the project: $10,755.90

Donate here:http://www.cnewa.org/donate-projectlist-us.aspx?locationID=6

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6 Responses to “Can Per Christum help to keep an Iraqi Catholic Seminary open?”

  1. Katherine Says:
    April 29, 2008 at 10:11 am

    The check is in the mail. CNEWA is one of the finest Catholic charities. One of their most commendable features is that they list for their benefactors the projects they fund (along with a narrative) and allow donors to designate from among the projects. Obviously, some donors simply contribute to the general fund but this respect for the good judgment of the lay faithful is commendable (even if it be rare!)

  2. PMG Says:
    April 29, 2008 at 10:40 am

    Donated online.

    This charity and Catholic Extension are my favorite charities, outside of my own parish contribution.

  3. asimplesinner Says:
    April 29, 2008 at 1:07 pm

    Katherine you bring up a good point which had occured to me although from a slightly different angle. I especially like that opportunities to pick a project to support allow for even whole communities (parishes, fraternal organizations, blog readerships) to pick a specific task that they can not only support (and see their support work), but it takes a group of brothers and sisters (even on the other side of the globe) and converts them from anoymous nameless, faceless “recipeints” into real people we can pray for and assist in a real way.

    My parish is remarkably small and operates on what most Latin Catholic parishes would consider a pittance. $13K a month keeps the doors open, the lights on, and the water in the bathrooms running. Fortunately - though we are small and struggling - we realize that this does not “give us a pass” to forego generosity to people who have far less than we do, as little as we might begin to think we have.

    (And like most Americans, even when I had old shoes, I had shoes, even when all I had to eat was ramen noodles, I had food. I can hardly characterize my having to order an item off a dollar menu at a fast food joint as a moment of difficulty - I still got food that was hot and had nutrients [maybe even meat!] that was contaminant free and decadent by the standards of a large portion of the world! In humility I must personally admit I have never really known the sorts of true hardship so many live and die under.)

    The sort of set up they have at the CNEWA is such that we can realize how generous we can be, even when we are not all that wealthy - what is a little or only a small sacrifice to us - is HUGE to other people.

  4. Barbara M Says:
    April 30, 2008 at 3:50 pm

    I may be at the wrong place, but I will be in Baku soon and would love to attend Mass at the Catholic Church. Can you provide an address?

  5. asimplesinner Says:
    April 30, 2008 at 8:17 pm

    You would have to ask at http://www.cnewa.org.

  6. asimplesinner Says:
    May 3, 2008 at 1:08 pm

    I learned the link I had was broken, so I called CNEWA and got the new one…

    When I called the person with whom I spoke (happily!) informed me that “A lot of people were calling about that project today!”

    Thank you for your generosity. The link is now updated.

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