Every year the Catholic Action Associations around the world, especially the young people, provide support to promote the Good Friday Collection, collaborating with everyone at a diocesan and parish level.
We respond to the invitation of Paul VI in Nobis in animo (25 March 1974) ‘it is necessary that Christians all over the world give proof of their generosity, sending to the Church of Jerusalem the charity of their prayers, the warmth of their understanding and the concrete sign of their solidarity’.
Through this initiative, the Church invites Christians in the Holy Land to resist the temptation to emigrate, showing them how the faithful all over the world are conscious of their plight.
The IFCA secretariat has been promoting the Collection since 2014-15 in various countries, in collaboration with the Custody of the Holy Land and the Commissariats of the Holy Land present in Italy and on other continents.
The Custos of the Holy Land, Br. Francesco Ielpo, launches an appeal for the collection on Good Friday, 3 April 2026: “On Good Friday, as we contemplate the Crucifix, we ask you not to forget the Holy Land, to remember in prayer and concrete charity those who continue to live and bear witness to the Gospel in the Places of Redemption. Your closeness is a precious sign of hope and fraternity: help us to give hope and sow peace!”.
From the PRESS RELEASE of the Custody of the Holy Land
