For the second year in a row, SOFIA, the Salvatorian Office for International Aid, was highlighted at a concert of the annual International Festival of Sacred Music and Art.
The concert took place on Sunday evening, 26 October 2014 at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome. At the behest of Pope Francis, the organizers of the festival have designated one of the concerts for the collection of funds for solidarity and charitable purposes. The featured charity was the Niños Abandonados project, dedicated to housing and educating abandoned children from the Catia barrio of Caracas, Venezuela. The project is partially funded through the efforts of SOFIA and operated by our confreres in Venezuela. The Society was prominently mentioned both orally by his Eminence James Cardinal Harvey, Archpriest of the Basilica, and in the program booklet of the XIII International Festival of Music and Sacred Art.
