Mission Appeal for Catholic Diocese of Butare located in Rwanda – Africa
August 9-10, 2025

This year our parish has been privileged to participate in Missionary Cooperative
Plan to support the mission cause of the Diocese of Butare in Rwanda – Africa. The
diocese continues with her mission of evangelization through Catholic Education. The second collection
for this purpose will be taken on the weekend of August 9 and 10. Fr. Denis Kiyenje will speak at all Masses about the mission.

Rwanda is a small country situated in the middle of Africa. The good news is that Rwanda has resurrected to a new life after the 1994 experience of a horrific genocide that was politically motivated during which one million people were murdered and left behind many broken hearted like orphans, widows, traumatized…, and many destroyed infrastructures like schools, medical centers, even churches. Now there is peace in the country and a significant progress.

The mission of the Diocese of Butare is focused on Catholic education, teaching the youth unconditional love, peace, and reconciliation. These efforts have made a great difference in the hope of the Catholic Church and have contributed tremendously to the building of a new Rwanda. The Catholic Faith is strong and vocations to priesthood and religious life are booming.  More than 60% of the country’s population are Catholics. 

Catholic education has proven to be an effective means of evangelization and conversion of the youth’s hearts for the bright future of the country. The financial support from you our brothers and sisters in Christ will help us in water project, to add more classrooms, to buy computers, books and school supplies, and it will enable us to carry on our mission of making the love of Christ present to the people of Rwanda. Currently the Diocese of Butare is establishing a new Catholic high school for 500 students which teaches computer science for which we are asking for your support.