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Franciscan University Announces New Institute for Catholic Humanitarian Service STEUBENVILLE, OHIO—Franciscan University of Steubenville established a new Institute for Catholic Humanitarian Service (ICHS) to meet the growing need for highly-skilled humanitarian service professionals fully formed in Catholic faith and morals. According to its founding director, Stephen M. Rasche, JD, faculty fellow at Franciscan University, the institute’s mission is “to identify, develop, support, and implement vocational approaches to humanitarian service that are fully informed by and faithful to the teachings and magisterium of the Catholic Church.” Through theology formation, rigorous practical training, and direct field experience, the Institute for Catholic Humanitarian Service will equip students and others to embrace humanitarian service as a vocation and provide ongoing practical assistance to those in need locally and globally. The ICHS is part of Franciscan University’s new “Franciscan Encounter” initiative, which works to bring together and leverage the University’s academic, administrative, and evangelizing resources to extend its mission and impact far beyond its Steubenville, Ohio, campus. Two initial institute projects will be undertaken in collaboration with dioceses in Nigeria, where the ICHS will implement donor funding and assistance in the rehabilitation of a major Catholic school as well as a long-term care hospital for tuberculosis and leprosy patients. The work of the ICHS in Nigeria will include the restoration of existing buildings and the construction of new buildings, funding the acquisition of new equipment, supporting the development of new curricula, and much more. Members of the ICHS will work on site and remotely to assist in these initiatives and to provide training, guidance, and support to staff and students. Read more...
STEUBENVILLE, OHIO—Franciscan University of Steubenville established a new Institute for Catholic Humanitarian Service (ICHS) to meet the growing need for highly-skilled humanitarian service professionals fully formed in Catholic faith and morals.
According to its founding director, Stephen M. Rasche, JD, faculty fellow at Franciscan University, the institute’s mission is “to identify, develop, support, and implement vocational approaches to humanitarian service that are fully informed by and faithful to the teachings and magisterium of the Catholic Church.”
Through theology formation, rigorous practical training, and direct field experience, the Institute for Catholic Humanitarian Service will equip students and others to embrace humanitarian service as a vocation and provide ongoing practical assistance to those in need locally and globally.
The ICHS is part of Franciscan University’s new “Franciscan Encounter” initiative, which works to bring together and leverage the University’s academic, administrative, and evangelizing resources to extend its mission and impact far beyond its Steubenville, Ohio, campus.
Two initial institute projects will be undertaken in collaboration with dioceses in Nigeria, where the ICHS will implement donor funding and assistance in the rehabilitation of a major Catholic school as well as a long-term care hospital for tuberculosis and leprosy patients.
The work of the ICHS in Nigeria will include the restoration of existing buildings and the construction of new buildings, funding the acquisition of new equipment, supporting the development of new curricula, and much more. Members of the ICHS will work on site and remotely to assist in these initiatives and to provide training, guidance, and support to staff and students.
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