“The Church in Spain has always wanted to be the Church of everyone, in closeness to the most varied social and cultural spheres, but we have sought to make it appear as a server of the poorest and weakest”
Message for the 50th anniversary of the Episcopal Conference
Evolution of the Church’s Social and Care Centres
4,095,346 people were accompanied and cared for in some of the 9,119 social and care centres of the Church during 2018.
Evolution of the beneficiaries of the Church’s Social and Care Centres
FROM 2010 TO 2018 THE WAS
AN INCREASE OF
71%
IN SOCIAL AND CARE CENTRES
WHICH MEANS
3,782
MORE CENTRES
THAN IN 2010
Charitable and Care-Giving Activity 2018
ASSISTANCE |
CENTRES |
BENEFICIARIES |
Centers to promote work |
369 |
141,316 |
Centers to alleviate poverty |
6,369 |
2,127,487 |
Centers for migrants, refugees and fugitives |
131 |
134,406 |
Centres for the rehabilitation of drug-dependent persons |
99 |
50,297 |
Centers for minors and young people and other centers for the protection of children |
421 |
64,490 |
Family offices and other centers for the defense of life and family |
252 |
70,880 |
Centers for the promotion of women and victims of violence |
105 |
23,279 |
Legal advice centers |
51 |
15,729 |
Children's nurseries and other diocesan schools |
186 |
11,168 |
TOTAL |
7,983 |
2,639,052 |
HEALTHCARE |
|
|
Hospitals |
70 |
783,648 |
Outpatient clinics |
51 |
432,701 |
Homes for the elderly, the chronically ill and people with disabilities |
852 |
74,670 |
TOTAL |
973 |
1,291,019 |
EDUCATION AND CULTURE |
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Cultural, artistic and education centers for peace |
163 |
165,275 |
TOTAL |
189 |
165,275 |
Charitable and Care-Giving Activity
CENTRES |
BENEFICIARIES |
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CHARITABLE AND CARE-GIVING ACTIVITY |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
Centres for promoting work |
307 |
310 |
364 |
95,559 |
115,243 |
121,401 |
Centres for mitigating poverty |
6,298 |
6,323 |
6,425 |
2,826,767 |
2,787,669 |
2,348,186 |
Centres for giving care to emigrants |
201 |
215 |
165 |
175,212 |
140,897 |
120,925 |
Centres for the rehabilitation of drug-dependent persons |
88 |
83 |
92 |
22,476 |
23,403 |
43,259 |
Centres for the young and other centres for child protection |
158 |
330 |
319 |
10,411 |
47,286 |
62,082 |
Centres for family counselling and other pro-life and family centres |
353 |
312 |
287 |
100,600 |
96,829 |
72,289 |
Centres for the promotion of women and victims of violence |
114 |
102 |
100 |
25,921 |
22,770 |
20,731 |
Legal advice centres |
61 |
62 |
59 |
17,871 |
20,313 |
17,741 |
TOTAL |
7,580 |
7,737 |
7,811 |
3,274,817 |
3,254,408 |
2.806,614 |
HEALTHCARE |
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Hospitals |
65 |
69 |
66 |
876,482 |
826,092 |
829,893 |
Outpatient clinics |
56 |
54 |
62 |
300,349 |
364,012 |
369,087 |
Homes for the elderly, hospices and homes for the disabled |
773 |
792 |
802 |
84,678 |
81,925 |
76,808 |
TOTAL |
894 |
915 |
930 |
1,261,509 |
1,272,029 |
1,275,788 |
EDUCATION AND CULTURE |
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Centres for peace education |
22 |
14 |
189 |
25,418 |
13,114 |
178,025 |
Culture and arts centres |
224 |
180 |
198,569 |
194,588 |
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Nurseries |
246 |
247 |
241 |
20,760 |
17,144 |
27,421 |
Diocesan shools |
|
17 |
|
|
10,827 |
|
TOTAL |
492 |
458 |
430 |
244,747 |
235,673 |
203,446 |