{"id":6273,"date":"2025-04-15T15:11:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T20:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stphils.com\/church\/?p=6273"},"modified":"2025-04-15T15:11:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T20:11:44","slug":"good-friday-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stphils.com\/church\/good-friday-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Friday Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pope Francis has asked our parish to support the Pontifical Good Friday Collection, which helps Christians in the Holy Land, where they are now less than 2% of the population. Your support is essential to help the Church minister in parishes, provide Catholic schools, and offer religious education. The Pontifical Good Friday Collection<\/b> also helps to preserve the sacred shrines of Christianity, including in Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem, to name only a few.<\/span><\/p>\n

The pandemic had hit Christians in the Holy Land particularly hard. Most of them depend on pilgrimages for work. The war made their situation even more dire. In these times of crisis, the Pontifical Good Friday Collection<\/b> is necessary to meet the basic needs of the People of God still living in this Land and to maintain a Christian presence where the Church was born.<\/span><\/p>\n

When you contribute to the Pontifical Good Friday Collection<\/b>, you join with Catholics around the world in solidarity with the Church in the Holy Land. Please be generous!<\/span><\/p>\n

For more information about\u00a0Christians in the Holy Land, visit www.myfranciscan.org<\/a> or www.custodia.org<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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