Annual Report 2025
We invite you to review the annual report with the most significant data of the activity of the CARF Foundation in 2025.
Dearest benefactors and friends:
As this year 2025 comes to a close, the year in which we have moved toward our 37th anniversary, it is with a heart full of gratitude that I turn to you. Your faithfulness and generosity are the foundation that allows the CARF Foundation to fulfill its mission: to ensure that no young person with vocation to be left without an integral formation due to lack of resources. Your support is a resounding yes to the development of the Church and the Gospel in the most remote corners of the planet.
The year 2025 has been marked by an international situation of profound transformation and fragmentation. Economic instability and division between blocs and a persistence of conflicts throughout the world that must lead us to pray more for peace in the hearts of all people. In this convulsive and polarized world, the figure of the priest, as a bridge of peace, reconciliation and love, becomes more vital than ever.
Despite this challenging environment, the CARF Foundation has maintained its commitments. We have supported nearly two thousand seminarians and diocesan priests, as well as religious men and women, who are pursuing their studies. at the Ecclesiastical Faculties of the University of Navarra and the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome.. These students, from 85 countries and more than 1,200 dioceses, are proof that the Church is a universal family that knows no borders.
Audit and balance sheet of the 2025 annual report accounts
- Resources obtained: 10,474,834 €.
- Resources applied: 7,858,860 €.
- Aid granted: 6,228,466 €.
- Grants from the Board of Trustees: 99,318 €.
- General and management expenses: 1,531,076 €.
- Fund endowment: 2.615.974 €
Student origin
Asia, 13 countries: Burma, China, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Japan, Lebanon, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.
Africa, 25 countries: Angola, Benin, Burkina-Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Chad, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Congo, DR Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda and Zambia. Congo, South Africa, Rwanda, Sudan, 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, 19 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.
- South, 9 countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.
Oceania, 3 countries: Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.
Students benefited: 1,960
759 study in Pamplona and 1.201 are studying in Rome.
In 2025, four alumni were named bishops, but only one was ordained, who studied both in Pamplona and in Rome:
- Simón Bolívar Sánchez Carrión: Archbishop of Rosella (born in Ecuador) ordained on January 11, 2025.
Doctoral theses and published books
- Theses: 66. Cumulative total: 2764
- Books: 55. Accumulated total: 2,269
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