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As bishop, Pope Leo XIV honoured Chalice’s ‘incalculable help’ for migrants in crisis

Pope Leo XIV in Peru

When the freshly elected Pope Leo XIV appeared on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, phones in our Chiclayo sponsor site in Peru began lighting up. Our colleagues Yolanda, Gladys, and all the sponsor site staff were giddy with excitement. There, dressed in the papal vestments, was their dear former bishop, collaborator, and admired friend. […]

A Different Kind of Christmas

If we asked you to associate one word with Christmas, what would it be?  Maybe light, togetherness, or food. Whatever it is, it likely wouldn’t be ‘loneliness’.   Yet that’s the prospect parents at our Chiclayo sponsor site in Peru were faced with last year, when COVID-19 restrictions ruled out in-person gatherings.  Parents at the site, however, were […]