Our Vision

The vision of International Missionary Foundation is to address Spiritual and Physical poverty by fostering Parish2Parish relationships that are based on mutual love, respect and benefits in response to the Second Vatican Council and encouraged by the Magisterium.

The Church continually combats all forms of poverty, because as Mother she is concerned that each and every person be able to live fully in dignity as a child of God

St. John Paul II

THE NEED

Spiritual Poverty

The spiritual poverty of the Western World is much greater than the physical poverty of our people.

St. Teresa of Calcutta

Seventy-one million of the seventy-seven million Catholics in America are disengaged
6.4 percent of registered parishioners contribute 80% of the volunteer hours in a parish
Only 30% of Americans who were raised Catholic are still practicing

Dynamic Catholic Institute

In so many of our societies, side by side with material prosperity, a spiritual desert is spreading; interior emptiness, unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair.

Pope Benedict XVI

Physical Poverty

How many poor people there still are in the world, what great suffering they have to endure!

Pope Francis

700 million people live on less than $2.00 a day (World Bank)
2.2 billion people do not have access to clean drinking water (WHO)
Over 820 million people suffer from hunger (UN)
14,000 children under the age of 5 die each day due to poverty, and they die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from scrutiny and the conscience of the world (UNICEF)

Our Vision

St. John Paul II

THE NEED

Spiritual Poverty

St. Teresa of Calcutta

Dynamic Catholic Institute

Pope Benedict XVI

Physical Poverty

Pope Francis

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