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A team from the Diocese of Mandeville in Jamaica delivers roofing supplies to a home severely damaged by Hurricane Melissa. Support from our donors helps families rebuild their homes and their lives.

Disaster Relief Impact

Lifting Up Communities in Crisis

Compassionate Catholic ministries bring hope when disaster strikes. Often, these ministries are the first and only source of aid for impoverished communities ravaged by hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and civil conflicts. Lacking resources of their own, destitute families rely on Catholic leaders to help them meet immediate needs and pursue long-term recovery.

The generosity of U.S. Catholics enables Cross Catholic Outreach to empower these ministries to respond quickly when disaster strikes. During the 2025 fiscal year, our friends helped families recover by sending meals, medicine, personal care products, housing supplies and more. These missions of mercy brought relief, protected lives, and glorified God.

Fiscal Year 2025 Impact

countries Aid provided

544,320

Emergency Meals Delvered

28,764

CASES OF MEDICAL SUPPLIES DELIVERED

2,208

DISASTER RELIEF BLANKETS PROVIDED

A VATICAN PARTNERSHIP TO ADDRESS GLOBAL NEEDS

THE DICASTERY FOR THE SERVICE OF CHARITY

Rapid responses are critical for helping families recover from disasters. To ensure quick action and detailed follow-up, Cross Catholic Outreach has developed a strong network of global ministry partners trusted by the communities they serve. Some go beyond borders to create multinational outreaches. One such partner is the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Service of Charity, which is led by Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the Papal Almoner.

In fiscal year 2025, Cross Catholic Outreach continued to strengthen its relationship with the dicastery, collaborating to address the needs of refugees and internally displaced families from Ukraine. Through this partnership, we provided cash grants to meet critical needs so families could feel the support of the Church. This aid has been vital as displaced families try to protect and nourish children in new surroundings.

Fast Facts

Background

Cross Catholic Outreach has been partnering with the Vatican’s Dicastery of the Service of Charity to bring relief to Ukrainian refugees since the dicastery was founded in 2022.

Assistance Delivered

Our donors have enabled the Papal Almoner to personally deliver ambulances, generators, clothing and medicine into Ukraine.

Other Partnerships

To help Ukrainian families, we also worked with the Archdiocese of Przemyśl’s Pastoral Family Care Foundation in Poland, Mission Vlaster in Moldova and Caritas in Veritate in Ukraine.

Impact

Our donors have helped provide food, medicines, blankets, hygiene items, educational supplies and other resources to refugees and internally displaced families.

Donate To Make a Difference

Donations from this campaign will be used to cover any expenditures for this project incurred through June 30, 2027, the close of our ministry’s fiscal year. In the event that more funds are raised than needed to fully fund the project, the excess funds, if any, will be used to meet the most urgent needs of the ministry.