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Hello all,
What are some of your favorite charities? I'm especially interested in hearing about charities run by Catholics or Orthodox Christians, but if you have others of which you are especially fond, feel free to share those too.
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Although I am Byzantine, I am also an organist in a Latin Rite church. The Latins have a group of women called The Ladies of Charity." They run a thrift shop to help raise money for the poor. They provide help with utility bills, food, clothing, etc. I don't know if they have a national presence, or if they are just a regional charity. But they really do good work. My brother and I stopped giving Christmas presents some years ago. Now we both make donations to The Ladies of Charity instead.
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CFCA- Christian Foundation for Children and Aging. Sponsor a child or aged person. Funds many Catholic missions worldwide. www.cfcausa.org/ [ cfcausa.org] Paul
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No child should die in the dawn of life(Arabic saying) St. Jude\'s Children\'s Research Hospital [ stjude.org] and Shriners Hospitals for Children [ shrinershq.org] St. Jude's in Memphis, founded by Lebanese-American (and Maronite Catholic) comedian Danny Thomas, of blessed memory, is a charity particularly dear to US Maronite, Melkite, and Syriac Catholics, as well to as our Antiochean and Syrian Orthodox sisters and brothers and to the Syrian and Lebanese community generally. Both St. Jude's and the Shriners' Hospitals accept as patients any child in need of their services without regard to race, color, religion, ethnicity, nationality, and, most especially, without regard to their ability to pay. No patient is ever responsible for any cost associated with their care at either St. Jude's, which treats cancer and other catastrophic diseases of childhood, or at any of the 20 Shriners' Hospitals in the US, Canada, and Mexico, which treat children with orthopedic and neuro-muscular disorders, spinal cord injuries, and burns. The research performed at these institutions has contributed enormously to the survival, to the enhancement of quality of life, and to the advancement of medical care for children with the most devastating of diseases and injuries. And The Jimmy Fund [ jimmyfund.org] , official charity of the Boston Red Sox since its founding almost 60 years ago, which has provided many of the advances in pediatric cancer throughout its existence.
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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