Black and Indian Mission Collection to Occur during Masses This Weekend

The 138th annual National Black and Indian Mission Collection will occur during the Sunday Masses on March 5-6, 2022. The collection helps build the Church in African American, Native American, and Alaska Native communities from coast to coast.

Recognizing a need to call the faithful to support missionary work among African American and Native American Catholics, the U.S. Catholic bishops established this Catholic Church charity for the Catholic Missions in 1884 to administer a national collection—the first of its kind in the United States—to support missionary work.

The generosity of the good People of God allows the Commission for the Catholic Missions to give helpful grants to dioceses across the country to operate schools, parishes, and other missionary services that build the Body of Christ in Native American, Alaska Native, and Black Catholic communities.