Avishka Sachindra Hapurachchi is a 25-year-old seminarian from the Diocese of Colombo (Sri Lanka) who is now beginning his first year of Theology at the Bidasoa International Seminary (Pamplona).
The CARF Foundation (acronym that stands for Centro Academico Romano Fundación) promotes activities of a cultural nature, aimed at the promotion and development of the humanities in all its manifestations, and, primarily, the specific formation received by seminarians, diocesan priests and religious of the Catholic Church.
We believe that it is possible to improve people's daily lives through the integral formation of young men with a vocation to serve through the priesthood. For this reason, the CARF Foundation, thanks to its benefactors, contributes financially so that seminarians, diocesan priests and religious from all over the world can receive a solid academic, theological, human and spiritual preparation.
Thanks to generous people like you, candidates can complete their academic, theological, human and spiritual formation in universities and seminaries in Rome and Pamplona.
Each year, more than 800 bishops from around the world apply for grants to help them train their students to become bishops. PUSC and in the UNAVMost vocations today are born in African or American countries, which lack the means.
131 countries send candidates to universities and training centers
Avishka Sachindra Hapurachchi is a 25-year-old seminarian from the Diocese of Colombo (Sri Lanka) who is now beginning his first year of Theology at the Bidasoa International Seminary (Pamplona).
Jacobo de Mesa, a 21-year-old seminarian studying his first year of philosophy at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, tells us about his discernment.
On July 25, the Church celebrates the feast of St. James the Apostle, the figure around whom the Camino de Santiago arises. He is the patron saint of Spain, Galicia and its cavalry, as well as tanners, veterinarians, equestrians and several cities in the world that bear his name.
