Friends of the CBF is a not for profit and a voluntary organization created in the USA to serve the Catholic Biblical Federation.

The mission of Friends of the CBF is to help the Catholic Biblical Federation to:

• promote and develop the Biblical Pastoral Ministry in the Catholic Church in collaboration with the Bishops and the Bishops’ Conferences
• participate actively in the Church’s mission of evangelization by sharing the Word of God
• facilitate a fruitful sharing and networking of Biblical Pastoral experiences and reflection, methods and materials as well as other resources among its various members
• promote and support the translation, production and distribution of the Bible at Catholic and interconfessional levels.
• promote biblical studies and the production of educational tools for the sake of a better approach to and understanding of the Bible.
• support the work of Catholic organizations for biblical pastoral ministry
• establish bridges between biblical science, pastoral ministry and Church communities on all levels.
• promote interconfessional dialogue based on the common heritage of the Judeo-Christian Scriptures, and also the dialogue between the religions based on Sacred Scripture and those scriptures considered as sacred by other religions