Nigeria, July 02, 2015 But peace surrounding latest election brings hopeThis report is contributed by Dennis Peters of Aid to the Church in Need. Kaduna, Nigeria, and neighbouring Zaria hold bitter memories. Located in the center of the country, more or less on the fault line between the Muslim north and the Christian [...]

Syria   Monday, 6th July 2015Königstein/Sutton, 6th July 2015. A priest who was killed in Syria while caring for his people trapped in a war zone should be considered for canonisation, according to a fellow Jesuit who was his friend and colleague.Father Frans van der Lugt was assassinated by an [...]

Armenia  07.07.2015 Königstein/Rom, 07.07.2015. “We were certain that the Pope would remember the genocide, and his courage has changed the attitude of the entire world.” The words are those of Archbishop Minassian, the Ordinary of Eastern Europe for the Armenian Catholics, who was speaking to ACN about the reactions of his [...]

Pope's journey to ECUADOR, BOLIVIaaND PARAGUAY                      2July 2015Königstein (2July 2015) —From 5to 13 Julythe Holy Father will make an eight-day visit to Ecuador, Boliviaand Paraguay. Following the World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro in 2013 this will be the Argentinian Pope's second trip to Latin America. He has chosen [...]

South  Sudan 08.07.2015Königstein/Juba.- 08.07.2015 - Representatives of the international pastoral charity and pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) travelled to South Sudan recently, where they were told first-hand about the terrible situation of the refugees and internally displaced peoples uprooted by the current conflict in the states of [...]

Tunis, Tunisia     09. Jul. 2015The Christians in the country are shocked following the jihadist attack on Western tourists Königstein, 09. July 2015. Following the jihadist terror attack on tourists in Tunisia at the end of last week, the priest of the Catholic cathedral of Tunis emphasised that the [...]

Report on Christians in Nigeria   01.07.2015 By Dennis Peters Kaduna and Zaria, two towns in the center of Nigeria which lay on the border between the Christian south and Muslim north, have suffered Boko Haram’s bloody attacks. They are also places where, after the 2011 elections, at least 900 [...]

28/06/2015   The following is a summary of the content of the Agreement between the Holy See and the State of Palestine, based on the text provided by L'Osservatore Romano. The Agreement has a specific nature that takes into account the legal and political situations that surround the conflict, and [...]

26th June 2015 Municipality gives in to uproar following Christian conference, dubbed by Jews 'a show of forced conversion' The Jerusalem Municipality has decided to consult the city's Orthodox chief rabbis before approving any public Christian event that might possible include missionary activity, Israeli news site Ynet reported on Thursday. Last month, [...]

Holy Land     24.06.2015 Rome/Königstein – 24.06.2014 To "transform a shared home into a family, through dialogue" – this is the "challenge" for the Church in the Holy Land, according to Archbishop Giuseppe Lazzarotto, the papal nuncio in Israel and apostolic delegate for Palestine. Speaking to the international Catholic [...]