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The SPA is the Church's official fundraising body for the training of clergy and religious in mission countries.
Through prayer and finance SPA supporters provide these younger churches with the essential help they need to train their own priests, sisters and brothers.
In 1922, Pope Pius XI placed the Society under papal patronage and gave it the task of supporting each and every seminary in the missionary world.
Today the SPA is established in 157 countries. With your prayers and generous help, it supports 1,069 mission dioceses and funds the training of 30,000 major seminarians and 10,000 novices.
Without your help, mission dioceses would find it difficult to fund the training of the priests they so urgently need.
Even one new priest can make a difference to the lives of several thousand Catholics in remote areas where they might only have Mass three or four times in a single year.
The priest works today to build the Church of tomorrow.
Can you help?
Can you help to train priests for the world of today and tomorrow?
Can you help to build the Church of the future?
Special SPA prayers for Lent >>
Read more about Cambodia
Every year the SPA focuses attention on the seminaries and seminarians in one of the countries that it supports. In 2010-2011, we look at Cambodia.
The Society of St Peter the Apostle publishes a yearly magazine: Mission Tomorrow.
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