(VaticanInsider) “The Congregation for Oriental Churches has taken on board the concerns which Pope Francis expressed on many occasions and has invited the world’s Churches to offer their special spiritual and material support at Lent to Christians living in the Holy Land…
“The annual Collection for the Holy Land should therefore receive generous support from pastors and faithful throughout the Catholic community… Bishops will be informed of the main pastoral, educational, assistential and social projects which the dicastery and the Custody for the Holy Land carried out in 2013, as well as the regular support given to the ecclesial mission…
“As always, it is human, not the material aspect that is given top priority: the most substantial support goes to Catholic educational institutions of all kinds right up until university level…