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Help To The Catholic Church
Aim of the project:
To help the Catholic Church be equipped for effective ministry in different fields through providing the Scriptures for the Catholic believers.
Project summary:
Having 438 parishes and 4 theological education establishments, the Roman Catholic Church considerably influences life of the Belarusians, especially those inhabiting the western part of Belarus.
Not only the Catholic believers have increased in numbers during recent years, but also the Catholic Church has become much more active in both Gospel-proclaiming ministry and social services. Multifaceted in their ministry, the long-ago established local parishes and especially the new ones both need help, and so do the theological education establishments.
Striving for fulfilling our mission, we plan a big project of helping the Roman Catholic Church in Belarus. The project embraces the following:
1. Providing the Catholic priests with BS’ literature for holding worship services;
2. Help to the priests serving various categories of the needy, and holding Bible studies in groups;
3. Distributing the Scriptures for confirmation classes;
4. Cooperation with the large Christian publishing house “Pro-Christo” in the matter of distributing the books of the BS;
5. Helping the Catholic Church with the social ministry aiming at prevention of abortions and HIV-AIDS;
6. Providing the students of theological education establishments with the Scriptures and other literature (concordances, reference books, scholarly editions etc)
The graduates will be presented with the Bibles, and each theological establishment's library will be supplied with the BS' literature. "Mary" legion's library will also be provided with Christian books.
There are 12 pilgrimages held by RCC annually. The number of participants of each pilgrimage can reach 8,000 people. On the way, the pilgrims stay overnight at schools, talking to other people and leaving sets of spiritual literature. Equipping piligrims with Christian books is one more facet of our help to the RCC.
This project will help to realize the important components of the business plan: publishing, distribution and popularization of the Holy Scriptures in the Russian and Belarusian languages. The project is aimed at meeting the demand for the Scriptures for the people that haven't yet taken the Bible as a divine book containing the Word of God. In the course of multi-year cooperation with the Catholic Church the local parishes' needs has transpired; We did our research and indentified the demands of the Scriptures, which led to the development of the wide-scale project of rendering all-round help to the Catholic Church in Belarus.
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