News November 2025

 

                                                                                                                                                       November 7, 2025

Dear Family, Daughters of Charity, and Friends,

I am back fundraising for Gaza, as the situation there is so horrifying. When in the States in July and August, and after my return, I am only now able to begin again. As before, when we were a team going there, I will use our website to share the news every few months. I have just written an article about what the Pontifical Mission is doing there. They have been on the ground helping since the day the war began. We have complete confidence in them, as they have been supporting several of our houses financially here in the Holy Land for 30 years. Their reputation is clean, so the donations that I receive go to them for their projects. Below tells you what they have been doing since last August. They can reach thousands despite the situation. As you can see, they are very ecumenical in their approach to serving. We are proud of them. If you send me funds, it will go directly to them. Last week, I was in Jerusalem to deliver the thousand and four hundred dollars that many of you gave me for the very poor in Gaza.

The photos also show how professional they are, as those who receive donations have to sign. They are making a difference in Gaza.

 

 Pontifical Mission’s Service in Gaza:

September

  The Middle East Council of Churches, which is working in Gaza, received $117,000 to provide food for 1,000 families. The bags of food contained 17 items, including canned meat, as they have no electricity, and 90% have no homes to shelter them. This amount of food will last a week or 10 days, depending on how many family members there are. 

September and October

People needed tents after returning to their destroyed homes and having no security or shelter. Each tent for 8 to 12 family members costs $1,000. They were about to buy 17 tents for 17 families. The total cost was $17,000.

October

People needed clean drinking water, and the Orthodox Monastery provided it to families near them, as they had access to it. Yet they required solar fuel to power generators that pumped water to their homes. This project cost them $39,000. 

People were in desperate need of the basic items in Hygiene kits. AISHA is a women’s organization that has been working in Gaza for years. They have a good reputation and are local women who previously ran wonderful programs. We visited them on several occasions. They wanted to provide families returning to the North with these kits that cost 600 shekels each. They also provided psycho-social services to women and children.  

November

A Spanish NGO wanted to support a project in Gaza and asked the Pontifical Mission to find one for them. The Middle East Council of Churches again organized a program to provide new medical equipment for the hospital, which had been damaged and stolen over the years of the war. This equipment was desperately needed to save lives. This program cost $46,000. 

The Pontifical Mission wanted to give families some money because they had nothing, and many were starving. From their own budget, they provided financial support to 500 families. The total project cost $100,000. The families could provide the desperately needed medications, baby formula, and other supplies.

The Anglican Hospital had 200 burn patients it could not care for. Each case cost them $225. The total project cost $40,000.  The Pontifical Mission's main office in New York, called the Catholic Near East Welfare Association, sponsored this project for them.

You can see that the Pontifical Mission is very ecumenical, as it works closely with other religious groups to help people who are desperately in need of a wide range of assistance. They are well-known and have been running programs for the people of Gaza for years. They have been helping our houses in Israel for years, as their reputation is excellent. Not a shekel is wasted or pocketed that is given for the very poor. We are happy to collaborate with them. Be assured that the donations which you’ve given me and that I bring to them go directly to the neediest in Gaza.

If you want to send donations directly to the Pontifical Mission, I can provide their bank information. You can also send donations via PayPal; all you need to know is my email address. There are no costs, all is free via PayPal. If you want to send the donation directly to me for the Pontifical Mission, I can send you my bank information.

Love to each and all of you, prayers are included,

Susan

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Last news

 Dears friends,

don't think that I can give you any more news other than that which you can find on the news channel of the BBC from London. 

Donations that arrive, I continue to give to the Pontifical Mission, which is still able to serve the people. I talk bi-weekly to the parish priest, and he says that they are rationing the little food that they still have.

Your prayers are very precious at this time of famine and war there.

Sr. Susan

January and February 2025

 

January and February Updates 2025

 

Two days this week I spent in Jerusalem visiting the Patriarchate and the Pontifical Mission the first day and going to the Bank the following day. I just talked by phone to the Parish Priest to ask him to tell me the news from Gaza City.

Being that I continue to fundraise for them I was able to bring with me the funds that came in. When we as a team stopped helping in the south so did two of our major benefactors. Other sources have been found who want to help, so I do receive some financial help. We have had problems with using PayPal so I ask that any of you ready to help the poor of the south let me know and I will send you my account information which is used for helping them. My priority continues to be to feed people as long as it is needed to save lives this includes providing water and some medicines that are also life savers.

The Patriarchate has reached out to the many Lieutenancies of the Orders of the Holy Sepulcher around the world and they have been very generous. They have helped especially the Catholic/Latin Parish in Gaza City who houses 500 refugees. Among them are three priests and two sisters of the Word Incarnate and two Missionaries of Charity of Mother Theresa. Despite the hardships the people are courageous and intend to rebuild their city. The parish is able to reach out to many in need in their area of the city.

The Pontifical Mission is working in collaboration with the Patriarchate and they are reaching out to another group in need. They work with four other non-prophet organizations serving the two million and three thousand people left alive. They work with five local NGOs who serve both Muslim and Christian people. There are very few Christians and who live only in Gaza City.

Isha they have been working with for five years and know them well. They provide food packages for 1,120 families of the value of one hundred dollars. This is a non-Christian ONG. Their goal is to protect the rights of women and children with their headquarters in G. City. They also fled south when the people had to flee to the south of the strip. Their office were destroyed. It was in the El Amal building on El Wahad St. near where our bank was.

The Pontifical Mission also supports the Alaya Hospital that Ms. Suhiala directs. Medicines and medical supplies were provided them. This hospital was badly shelled several times during the war.

Spark who supports the Education of Children was also supported by Pontifical Mission. They provide psychosocial activities and also teach Arabic and English. 

The Society of women Graduates gives psychosocial intervention for 100 children and for 500 families. They also supply food parcels to 500 families.

The Al Ahli Hospital who was also seriously damaged several times in the war. This is an Episcopal hospital. Pontifical Mission provides for their outpatients mainly for minor injuries and for inpatients serving 200,000 individuals for all kinds of medical services and medicines.

When the people from the south came to see how their homes were destroyed one third of these people returned to the South of the Strip.

Just recently we have heard from the media of President Trump’s plans for this strip of land.

Fr. Gabriel said this morning that prayer will help as a future is ahead for this one million and three thousand people.