With over 70 parishes across four regions under the Patriarchy, the Latin Patriarch has over 250,000 parishioners, 4500 of which are in Jerusalem. While the bulk of RDF's work for Catholics in the Holy Land is delivered more directly via the Franciscan Custody and to specific Catholic based institutions, we also provide a modest annual grant directly to the Patriarch for his discretionary use.
Bethlehem University of the Holy Land is a Catholic Christian co-educational institution of higher learning founded in 1973 in the Lasallian tradition, open to stud...
Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul (The Creche)
Located in central Bethlehem, The Creche exists to serve and protect the most vulnerable children and mothers in the region. Both cultural and legal norms are quite...
The largest Christian population in the Middle East are Copts, with 10-15 million (15% of the population) members in Egypt. We say that the small remaining Christia...