BAGHDEDA (QARAQOSH), Iraq - On 7 June 2019, Mgr Nizar Semaan, who most recently served in the UK, was ordained Coadjutor Archbishop for the Syriac Catholic Church. He will serve alongside Mgr Petros Mouche and have jurisdiction over Mosul, Kirkuk, and Kurdistan. He was ordained in his hometown of Baghdeda, [...]

“The attacks have reminded many people of the time when the state of emergency was declared during the civil war. The general public and especially all of the Christians in Sri Lanka are still in a state of shock.” This was the résumé of Veronique Vogel, head of projects in [...]

Twenty years after the historic visit by Pope St. John Paul II to the “Garden of the Mother of God”, Pope Francis visited Romania from 31 May to 2 June. The motto of the visit was “Let’s Walk Together”. The highlight of this Papal visit was the beautification of seven [...]

Friends and Benefactors of Aid to the Church in Need Malta gathered on 29th May 2019 at The Victoria Hotel Sliema for a Talk to mark the 5th Anniversary of the Pontifical Foundation in Malta with the theme, “Faith and Fortitude…Christians in the Middle East”. Speaking to participants at the [...]

The leader of the Chaldean Church has called on the Iraqi government to put in place and enforce laws “that guarantee Christians and other religious minorities … full citizenship and freedom in practicing their faiths explicitly.” “The absence of serious steps” to protect the rights of minority faiths in the [...]

Archbishop Bernardito Auza, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations and president of the Path to Peace Foundation, has praised Aid to the Church in Need (ACN)—the recipient of the 2019 Path to Peace Award—as “the leading organization in the world putting words to the persecution Christians [...]