ACN supports the prayer appeal of Patriarch Gregorios III – the charity has given 6.3 million Euros in emergency aid since the war began ACN, Königstein – 5.3.2015. Patriarch Gregorios III. Of Antioch, the head of the Melkite Greek-Catholic Church, which is in communion with Rome, has called for a [...]

Interview with Peter Konteh, Executive Director of Caritas Freetown, Sierra Leone In West Africa the Ebola epidemic claimed thousands of victims in 2014. From Guinea it spread to the neighbouring countries of Sierra Leone and Liberia. It mainly affected the capitals and the border regions between the countries. Thanks to [...]

  THE extremist group Islamic State has now released some of the Christian hostages it seized in north-east Syria last week. According to London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 19 captives have been released – 18 were from the village of Tel Goran, one of the Assyrian Christian villages in [...]