The annual collection for the Catholic Church in Central and Eastern Europe will take place on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18.
Last year, $85,267 was collected in the Diocese of Camden.
This year’s collection highlights rebuilding the Church in the former Soviet state of Georgia. For nearly 70 years, the faithful in Georgia were persecuted: Priests were arrested and churches were closed. The faithful were forced to worship in secret.
Since becoming an independent country in 1991, Georgian communities have set about rebuilding the Church, but poverty and remote, rural locations have made this work more difficult, according to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Today, there are 80,000 Catholics in Georgia who practice the Latin, Georgian-Byzantine and Armenian Rites. To read more about the Georgian people and this collection, visit usccb.org/committees/church-central-eastern-europe.
Launched under Saint John Paul II in 1991 as communist regimes collapsed throughout Europe, the collection aids Catholics in 28 European countries in various stages of recovering from longtime totalitarian oppression: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia (Czech Republic), Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
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