NEW HAVEN, Conn. (CNS) — The Knights of Columbus has created a $2 million fund to promote peace initiatives in the Holy Land and provide support for the Christian community there. NEW HAVEN, Conn. (CNS) — The Knights of Columbus has created a $2 million fund to promote peace initiatives in the Holy Land and provide support for the Christian community there. The new “Pacem in Terris” (Peace on Earth) Fund “is intended to help the Christian community in the Holy Land realize the pope’s vision of proclaiming Christ’s presence there and striving to achieve a real and lasting peace,” said Carl A. Anderson, supreme knight of the New Haven-based organization. Anderson said the fund was a response to Pope John Paul II’s Easter message, in which he called on “Christian communities on every continent … to work so that (Christ’s) peace may bring an end to the tragic sequence of atrocities and killings that bloody the Holy Land.” The first proceeds from the fund will be presented to Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah of Jerusalem in the near future. Subsequent earnings will be presented annually to the Latin Patriarchate to support its pastoral mission.