Sister Shobka Rani Talari smiles when she gets on her new moped. She is not daunted by the poor roads that she often has to take into the jungle as she carries out her work for the mission in Chhaygaon, which is located in the Archdiocese of Guwahati in the [...]
Systematic violence against Nigerian Christians by Fulani herdsmen constitutes genocide, according to a leading Catholic bishop who stressed that Muslims are also falling foul of the violence. Following the execution of five aid workers by Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP), Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah of Sokoto told Aid to [...]
Six years after IS-invasion a Church´s reconstruction fuels Christian´s hope On August 6, 2014, IS units conquered and razed to the ground the Christian settlements of the Nineveh Plain, north and east of Mosul. Some 120,000 Christians had to flee overnight. Qaraqosh-Baghdeda, 20 miles east of Mosul, was the largest [...]
A high-profile minority groups’ politician championing human rights in Pakistan, Joel Amir Sahotra has told Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) that hard-liners in Pakistan are forcing Christians out of Muslim neighbourhoods and refusing to give them lodgings. Speaking on the recent events in Pakistan, specifically on the death [...]
A 400-year-old crucifix was set ablaze when Managua Cathedral suffered the latest in a series of anti-Christian incidents in Nicaragua. According to a statement by the archdiocese of Managua, on Friday 31 July a man entered the Chapel of the Precious Blood, in the Managua cathedral, and threw a firebomb, [...]
The European Union (EU) has decided it will have a Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion, responding to calls from political and civil society fronts in Europe and abroad. The decision was announced on Wednesday 8 July by the European Commission (EC) Vice-president, Margaritis Schinas, prompting a sigh of relief [...]
ARCHBISHOP RAMZI GARMOU, when he still headed the Chaldean Archeparchy of Tehran, spoke with Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) about the situation of Christians in Iran. He currently serves as archbishop of the Chaldean Archeparchy of Amida, Turkey. Are Christians in Iran particularly discriminated against? They are forbidden [...]
NGOs and Muslim leaders in Pakistan stand accused of refusing to give COVID-19 emergency aid to Christians and other religious minorities – even though they are among those worst affected by the pandemic. Cecil Shane Chaudhry, Executive Director of the National Commission for Justice and Peace, a Catholic-run human rights [...]
On 27 May 1940, the village of Vinkt, located near the Belgian city of Ghent, was the scene of one of the great crimes committed on the Western front during World War II. Eighty-six civilians were executed during a massacre carried out by German troops. Dutch Premonstratensian Father Werenfried van [...]
On the 13th of May 2014, with an International Conference tagged “Can Christianity Survive Persecution?” and an inaugural Mass the day before, officiated by the President of Aid to the Church in Need International, Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) Malta was born. The events were [...]
