Cosmas Agwu Uka, a Niguerian priest, is studying for a Licentiate in Philosophy at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome, thanks to a CARF scholarship.
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
Cosmas Agwu Uka, a Niguerian priest, is studying for a Licentiate in Philosophy at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome, thanks to a CARF scholarship.
Father Elmar Orlando Torres Tzarax has a vital task in his native Guatemala: to offer arguments and quality training to future priests who will have to stop the fall in the number of Catholics and the proliferation of evangelical groups.
On Saturday morning, September 27, 2014, Alvaro del Portillo, engineer, bishop and first successor of St. Josemaría at the head of Opus Dei, was beatified in Madrid before a crowd of faithful from eighty countries. He was also one of the protagonists of the Second Vatican Council.
