Following the Easter Sunday Bombings in Sri Lanka, ACN spoke with Fr. Malaka Leonard Fernando, the Minister Provincial of the Vice Province of our Lady of Lanka, Sri Lanka, of the Third Order Regular Franciscans who lives just half a kilometer from Katuwapitiya, where St. Sebastian’s Church was bombed. Baring [...]
“We thought that Sri Lanka was becoming a peaceful environment. But with these blasts, all our hope has gone. We are far away from peace.” These are the heart-breaking words of Fr Malaka Leonard, a Franciscan Sri Lankan priest who lost close friends during the Easter Sunday bomb attacks. Speaking [...]
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Archbishop Bernardito Auza, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations and president of the Path to Peace Foundation, has announced that Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) will be the 2019 recipient of the Path to Peace Award. The Holy See Mission said it has chosen [...]
Last weekend, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) Malta played host to guests from Nigeria who were in Malta as witnesses for the ACN Night of Witness event. Each had a story to tell. A story not just of woes but of dogged faith in the midst of the [...]
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After their hasty departure from Kompienbiga, in the south-east of Burkina Faso, the sisters of the congregation, Sœurs des Campagnes took refuge with the brothers in the male branch of their same congregation, in Pama, back in January 2019 and just before the assassination of Father César Fernandez. Sister Thérèse, [...]
On April 11, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) Malta will be organizing a prayer vigil in memory of the modern Christian martyrs. This Night of Witness will be held at the Church of the Good Shepherd, Balzan by 5:30pm. Two witnesses from Nigeria, Rev. Fr. Polycarp Lamma and [...]
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