COVID, plus civil war and years of crippling drought, have dimmed the prospects for democracy in Ethiopia, made the lives of hundreds of thousands of refugees more difficult, devastated the country������Ƶapp basic social infrastructure of schools, hospitals, clinics and social services.

The $30 million Indigenous Reconciliation Fund has achieved its first-year goal of raising $9.4 million and the fund������Ƶapp board has greenlit 17 projects.

Despite confronting formidable economic headwinds due to the highest inflation rates to hit Canada in 40 years, ShareLife������Ƶapp parish fundraising campaign in 2022 came just shy of hitting its target.

Critics across the Church spectrum habitually accuse Canada������Ƶapp Catholic leadership of ducking what “must” be done — must inevitably being defined by what a given critic wants.

A new, independent registered charity created to disburse $30 million Canadian Catholics will raise over the next five years is a chance to forge new relationships between the Church and Indigenous Canadians, according to Odawa/Ojibway elder Rosella Kinoshameg.

The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has formally established its new registered charity to support and advance healing and reconciliation with Canada������Ƶapp Indigenous peoples.

Finalizing a “framework” for a five-year “campaign” to “fundraise” for a cause are hardly the whiz bang motivational words most of us need to roar out of the blocks for 2022. Set alongside, say, “sprinkling pixie dust to miraculously end the pandemic,” they might even appear a little, well, beige.

A national framework for a five-year, $30-million fundraising campaign in aid of healing and reconciliation with residential school survivors and their communities is coming in the new year, Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops vice president Bishop William McGrattan has told The Catholic Register.

A national framework for a five-year, $30 million fundraising campaign in aid of healing and reconciliation with residential school survivors and their communities is coming in the new year, Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops vice president William McGrattan has told The Catholic Register.

Regional efforts to raise $30 million on behalf of Indigenous healing and reconciliation projects appear to be on hold while the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops hammers out a national framework for regional and diocesan campaigns.