Lieutenancy

Canada — Toronto

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Endowment fund

Widows & Orphans Fund

Across the Holy Land families have been torn apart by war, conflict and tragedy. Mothers raising children alone carry the whole burden of food, shelter and schooling. This fund exists so that no child is left without support because a parent has been lost.

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Children’s Educational Fund

Education is how a Christian family stays in the Holy Land. This fund carries the cost of schooling, from fees and books to uniforms and transport, for children whose families cannot meet it, in the schools of the Latin Patriarchate.

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Bethlehem

Caritas Baby Hospital

Around 330,000 children under fourteen live between Bethlehem and Hebron. When they fall ill, Caritas Baby Hospital is where they go: the only hospital in the West Bank caring exclusively for children.

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Higher education

Bethlehem University

The first Catholic university in the Holy Land and the first university in Palestine, dedicated in the Lasallian tradition to academic excellence and to forming responsible leaders in Palestinian society.

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Hebrew-speaking Catholics

St. James Vicariate

Founded in 1955, the Association of Saint James serves the Hebrew-speaking Catholic communities of Israel, an autonomous Vicariate within the Latin Patriarchate with communities in six major cities.

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Holy Land

St. Rachel’s Centre

One of the works in the Holy Land sustained by the Toronto Lieutenancy, caring for the children of migrant and refugee families in Jerusalem.

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Annual gala

The Children of the Holy Land

An evening of fellowship, faith and solidarity in support of the children of the Holy Land. Seats and tables for the gala dinner, and gifts from those who cannot attend, go directly to the children.

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Suggested Member Obligation

Annual gift of $900 per Knight or Dame.

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Member Obligation, monthly

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Beit Jala Seminary

The seminary of the Latin Patriarchate, forming priests for the Holy Land.

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Latin Patriarch’s Discretionary Fund

For the urgent needs the Patriarch meets each year.

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Seniors’ Residence, Beit Afram

A home for the elderly poor of the Holy Land, in Taybeh.

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Giving above $10,000

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