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2024 Report

We help form diocesan and religious priests to serve the Church throughout the world.

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Letter from the President

Fernando Martí Scharfhausen
Don Fernando Martí Scharfhausen, presidente de la Fundación CARF

Dearest benefactors and friends:

As we conclude 2024 in which we have celebrated the 35th anniversary of the CARF Foundation, I gratefully share with you some milestones of the year. Your prayers and generosity make possible this priceless work in favor of the integral formation of our children. priests diocesans around the world, a work for the entire universal Church.

The international context remains complex. In spite of this challenging environment in 2024, the CARF Foundation has remained firmly committed to the Church throughout the world and to the integral formation of seminarians, diocesan priests and religious men and women.

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Audit and balance sheet for the 2024 financial year
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Resources obtained
9.485.790 €
Resources applied
9.485.790 €
Aid granted
5.649.025 €
Board of Trustees
124.120 €
Student origin
We support the integral formation of seminarians, diocesan priests and religious from 79 countries on five continents.

Asia, 14 countries: China, South Korea, the Philippines, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Africa, 22 countries: Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa, Rwanda, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, and Zambia.

Europe, 25 countries: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, and Hungary.

America, 21 countries:

Northern, 3 countries: Canada, Mexico, and the United States.

Central, 7 countries: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic.

Southern, 11 countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

Oceania, 2 countries: Australia and New Zealand.

Students benefitted: 2,152
758 study in Pamplona and 1,394 study in Rome.
In 2024, six alumni were ordained bishops, three from Rome and three from Pamplona:
Rubén Darío Ruiz Mainardi
Apostolic Nuncio to Benin and Togo. Titular Archbishop of Ursona, on December 14, 24.
Abel Liluala
Archbishop of Pointe-Noire (Congo), February 24, 2024.
George Jacob Koovakad
appointed titular archbishop of Nisibis of the Chaldeans on 10/22/2024, and created cardinal (India) on 7/12/2024.
Reinaldo Sorto Martínez
Bishop of the Military Ordinariate in El Salvador, July 20, 2024.
Mikel María Garciandía Goñi
Bishop of Palencia, January 20, 2024.
Thomás Ifeanyichukwu Obiatuegwu
Auxiliary Bishop of Orlu (Nigeria), January 5, 2024.
Doctoral theses and published books
Thesis: 86. Total accumulated: 2,699
Books: 61. Total accumulated: 2,214
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