A
missionary and humanitarian project of the Franciscans of the Immaculate in
Russia needs your support in order to be established.
The adventure of the Immaculate in Russia had its beginnings
in September 1997 when several Franciscans of the Immaculate traveled to Moscow
and St. Petersburg in order to study the language and offer their service to a
pediatric hospital that was about to open its doors to the public.
The project at the hospital was cancelled due to the grave
complications and disorder of post-communist Russia, but it didn’t affect the
realization of the presence of the Franciscans of the Immaculate in that
suffering and very much transformed land, that carries now the bloody wounds of
communism and atheism, leaving the population in a sorry moral and material
condition.
The doors were opened at Togliattigrad, a city 1,200 miles
from Moscow and which is sadly named after the secretary of the Italian
communist party Palmiro Togliatti, who was supposedly a benefactor to Russia in
the year of his residency in the city. It is interesting to note that although
an Italian contributed the success of communism in this city, an Italian mission
intends to recover everything that communism has robbed and destroyed, above all
the faith.
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Russia is calling for your help...
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city of Togliatti has approximately 800,000 inhabitants: not even one
church, priest or religious; the only religious presence being the
orthodox with their two churches under construction. The people live in
the darkest of miseries, completely devoid of moral values and material
security.
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St.
Francis Xavier |
St.
Therese of Lisieux |
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