Catholic Home Missions Appeal (CHMA)

Launched in 1998, the Appeal strengthens the Catholic Church in the United States and its territories where resources are thin and priests are few. Grantees include 90 Latin and Eastern Catholic dioceses in the U.S. and Caribbean. The appeal funds a wide range of pastoral services, including evangelization, religious education, the maintenance of mission parishes, the training of seminarians and lay ministers, and ministry with ethnic groups, especially Hispanics.