ACN (Malta) – LEĦEN IS-SEWWA – Il-Ħadd 2 ta’ Ottubru, 2016
https://issuu.com/wwwacn/docs/08_lehen_80_2nd_october_2016
SCOTLAND: Eggs and insults hurled at Catholic parishioners – ACN Malta
SCOTLAND – Eggs and insults hurled at Catholic parishioners As churchgoers were leaving evening Mass at St John and St Columba's Church in Rosyth, 14 miles northwest of Edinburgh, a gang of youths threw raw eggs and hurled “anti-Catholic abuse” at Fr. Kevin Dow and his parishioners. Ten children aged about [...]
Eritrea: World’s worst place to be Christian?
https://issuu.com/wwwacn/docs/acn_eritrea_report_eng___flap
GREECE – Iraqi woman aged 116 escapes from IS – ACN Malta
GREECE - World’s oldest refugee: Iraqi woman aged 116 escapes from IS An Iraqi grandmother aged 116 years who escaped from IS is the oldest refugee in Greece – and possibly the world!Zafir, born on 1 July 1910, is older than the Iraqi state itself. At that time the Ottoman Empire still [...]
NEPAL – Holy Cross Sisters’ mission for poor remote villages is thriving – ACN Malta
Nepal - Holy Cross Sisters' mission for poor remote villages is thriving It is almost 10 years now since the sisters of the congregation of the Daughters of the Holy Cross first began their apostolate in East Nepal. They are helping to give schooling to children from the poorest families, and at [...]
INDIA -Two priests talk about religious persecution against Christians – ACN Malta
INDIA - Two priests give an account of religious persecution against Christians Two priests from the Archdiocese of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar in Orissa spoke about their experiences of religious persecution at a conference on religious persecution organised by Aid to the Church in Need. Fr Mrutyunjaya and Fr Santosh Kumar described the difficult reality [...]
ETHIOPIA – Giving hope to Eritrean refugees in Hitsatse camp – Magdalena Wolnik
ETHIOPIA - Giving hope to Eritrean refugees in Hitsatse camp We hear about them in the news, in reports about successive boats that have sunk in the Mediterranean Sea. They come from a country where there is no war, and yet considered one of the worst places in which to be [...]
SYRIA – Christians caught up in political storm – ACN Malta
SYRIA - Christians caught up in political storm Syrian Christians are often portrayed as supportive of the Assad regime. This is largely because many church leaders have declared their support for the President and in most Christian areas there were no demonstrations against the regime.Nevertheless, the situation is not so clear-cut. Like [...]
NIGERIA – Statement on massacres from Diocese of Kafanchan – ACN Malta
Statement issued by the Catholic Diocese of Kafanchan, Kaduna State, North West Nigeria PREAMBLEWe, the Clergy, Religious and Laity of the Catholic Diocese of Kafanchan, welcome you to the Cathedral of St Peter Clavers. We are here to present to the world, the pains, agony and sorrows that have befallen [...]
NIGERIA – Fulani terrorists commit massacres against Christians – ACN Königstein
NIGERIA - Fulani terrorist groups commit Boko Haram-style massacres against Christians Between 2006 and 2014 more than 12,000 Christians have been murdered and 2,000 churches destroyed by Islamist terror groups in Nigeria. These are the figures cited by Bishop Joseph D. Bagobiri of the diocese of Kafanchan, in Kaduna State in [...]