Our brothers and sisters in developing countries face extreme hardships they cannot overcome alone. Living in impoverished communities, they lack the resources to recover from devastating natural disasters or provide their children with safe, healthy living conditions.
Fortunately, a loving community — the family of God — is here to help! Your continuous support of our Vatican-endorsed mission will enable our global network of trusted ministry partners to uphold dignity and protect human life by bringing clean water to remote villages, providing nourishing meals to hungry children, equipping families to recover from natural disasters and addressing other extreme hardships.
Help those in need every month by becoming a Cross Mission Partner. Your monthly gift will provide hope and empower families with the opportunity to overcome!
Cross Mission Partners play a critical role in supporting the world’s poor and vulnerable when and where help is needed most. Your gifts help us empower small Church-based programs with the resources they need to be extremely effective at the right time.
The continuous support from Cross Mission Partners can help lift families out of poverty. You make it possible to provide emergency aid when there is a storm or flooding, nutritious food when crops fail and lifesaving water when rivers dry up.
As a Cross Mission Partner, your impact can make miracles happen in Christ’s name.
Use it for reflections and notes to grow in your spiritual life. You’ll also receive a prayer request form to mail back so that we can pray for your needs. In effect, this creates a spiritual bridge to connect you to our sisters and brothers in Christ in the developing world!
Cross Mission Partners also receive a semiannual Mission Update with news, insights and information about the good work and accomplishments made possible by your support.
Every dollar helps us bless the least of our brothers and sisters throughout Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Mexico and Central America, and South America.
Families displaced by the war in Ukraine received food, blankets and spiritual support while in temporary shelters in Kharkiv (Ukraine), Poland and Moldova.
Rhoda lives in Chibeteka Village, Zambia, with her aunt. For a long time, one of her most significant challenges was collecting water.
The women and girls in Rhoda’s village used to walk to the water source at night to get ahead of the long lines. Rhoda would also collect water early in the morning before going to school, which left her exhausted. She often arrived at class later than her friends and had difficulty focusing on her lessons because she was so tired. Her family had to ration water use, and they frequently got sick from drinking the water she collected.
Everything changed after the new well was installed in Chibeteka village. Suddenly, Rhoda could spend less time collecting water and instead focus on school, hygiene and chores at home.
Now there are fewer cases of malaria in Rhoda’s village because the women and girls do not spend time collecting water from stagnant pools that attract many mosquitoes.
Rhoda has big dreams of becoming a lawyer someday. “I want to complete my education so that I may live a good life,” she shared. “We pray for good health, and also, I pray our God may lead me, protect me and guide me.”
“Because we love God, that allows us to love others, and by providing aid alongside our partners, we provide love and hope.” Michele Sagarino
Michele’s heart for service and deep Catholic faith inspire her to connect U.S. Catholics with ministries serving the world’s most marginalized people. She’s worked in executive leadership at Cross Catholic Outreach for more than 20 years and has served as its president since 2022, with full support from every U.S. Catholic bishop on our esteemed board of directors.
Families struggling with hunger, thirst and poverty need a strong Church to be there for them when it counts. Today, you can ensure our Church remains a source of relief, support and hope when impoverished families have the most urgent needs through life-changing programs such as these:
Ship prepackaged meals around the world and help Catholic ministries buy food locally.
Drill wells and protect families from dangerous illnesses that trap them in desperation.
Build safe, sturdy homes for families living in unsafe and unsanitary dwellings.
Empower young minds with the educational and spiritual foundation to achieve goals.
Give girls and boys a safe, healthy start and protect them from human trafficking.
Rush critical supplies, such as food, water and blankets after natural and man-made disasters.
Help families launch small businesses so they can break the cycle of poverty.
Improve nutrition and increase families’ income with programs to grow crops and raise animals.
Our vision of “all Catholics around the world united in overcoming material and spiritual poverty” is more than just a noble slogan. We put those words into action by forming partnerships with local Catholic priests, sisters and lay leaders serving in impoverished and blighted communities.
By relying on the expertise of local ministries rather than imposing our own programs on their ministry teams, we are able to rapidly respond to the most urgent needs in ways that have a real and lasting impact. These in-country partners walk among the poor, understand their hardships and dreams, empathize with their suffering, nurture their spiritual lives, and often know better than anyone else how to help them rise out of poverty.
Cross Catholic Outreach is committed to excellence in stewardship and pledges to be fully accountable for how we use the funds you entrust to our ministry. We provide meaningful help where it is needed most, channeling urgent aid and cash grants through local Catholic leaders who are trusted in their communities.
With your help, Cross Catholic Outreach will have the flexibility to respond where we are most needed, serving with humility, fervor and love as we advance Catholic evangelization.
A mobile doctor who makes health care accessible.
Dr. Enok Chione’s mobile medical clinics help bring health care to northern Malawi where the nearest health clinic is miles away and difficult to reach on foot.
A bishop who rejoices in Catholic transformation.
Bishop Pablo Vizcaíno Prado is the guiding force behind the social and spiritual outreaches in the Diocese of Suchitepéquez-Retalhuleu in Guatemala, increasing the number of parishes in the diocese from 14 to 25.
A priest opening doors to Christ and secure homes.
Working in Vietnam, Father Agustine Nguyen is opening hearts to Christ, building secure housing for poor families, and providing training and income-generating opportunities.
Girls at St. Theresia enjoy nutritious food during their lunch break.
Today, you can be Christ’s hands and feet by serving families that are crying out for relief and a brighter future. Your support of Cross Catholic Outreach and its network of Church partners around the globe will enable you to be God’s instrument of mercy in answering those prayers for help.
Please give generously so priests, religious sisters and lay missionaries in developing nations can further their work in ways that will end suffering, open doors of opportunity and restore hope.
Those faithful servants of God have committed their lives to serving the poor in the most forgotten corners of the most forsaken lands. Your support will empower them to respond quickly to urgent needs and bring about the long-term transformation of communities that have been trapped in poverty for generations.
As we stand together for the good of all, we truly become one body in Christ!
Students raise their colorful cups to collect water at a borehole.
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.