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
Lungelo Halalisani Gabriel is a seminarian from the Diocese of Eshowe in the Republic of South Africa. He is 28 years old and is studying theology at the Bidasoa International Seminary in Pamplona. Of Zulu origin, his family was not religious, but his parents gave him the best education in Catholic centers. She tells us about her vocation.
The novena, from the Latin novem, consists of praying for nine consecutive days, generally to entrust an intention to God or to ask for a particular grace. This traditional form of prayer, very popular and encouraged by the Church since the Middle Ages, generally appeals to the intercession of the Virgin Mary or a saint.
Persecuted Christians are today the most harassed religious group in the world. Our brothers become martyrs of the faith without any international institution echoing so much death, more than in the times of Rome or the French Revolution.
