A GROWING INSECURITY The level of unrest in Cameroun has been growing since 2016 when the country’s English-speaking community began to demand a return to federalism. More than 500 people including a Priest and Seminarian have lost their lives and some 200,000 have been displaced as a result of clashes [...]
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Ten-year-old Jeries Habib and his brother, Elia, eight, from Maloula, the hilltop Christian town in Syria, have good reason to smile as a fresh programme of ACN aid gets underway across the country. Thanks to you, ACN has just approved 40 new projects. The aid – including food, shelter, medicine, repair [...]
17,000 MALTESE/GOZITAN CHILDREN JOIN ONE MILLION CHILDREN TO PRAY FOR UNITY AND PEACE 17,000 Maltese and Gozitan Children have joined over one million children around the world to pray the Rosary for unity and peace in the world. This is an unprecedented outing since the inception of this initiative in [...]
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BRAVERY UNDER FIRE This is the title of a Film made to tell the extraordinary story of an Irish priest who died as a British army chaplain in the First World War. Last Thursday, Campbell Miller, director of the film, presented a copy to Pope Francis to be screened in [...]
A RAY OF LIGHT FOR SYRIA Suffering and hopelessness have become the norm for Syrians. Not only do they have to deal with the daily life plagued by terrorism as well [...]
A BRIDGE OF LOVE In our effort to be a bridge of love between our benefactors and beneficiaries, ACN (Malta) has presented a Chalice donated by a benefactor to a poor parish in Syria. Stephen Axisa, the National Director of Aid to the Church in Need (Malta), while he was [...]
THE NEW SAINT, OSCAR ROMERO Pope Francis on Sunday canonized the Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, declaring him a new saint alongside Pope Paul VI and 5 others. The Holy Father praised Romero for disregarding his own life "to be close to the poor and to his people". Archbishop Romero was murdered in 1980 [...]
PRAY FOR ASIA BIBI The final ruling of the Pakistan Supreme Court on the fate of Aasiya Noreen, “Asia Bibi”, a Catholic mother of five from Pakistan who has been in prison for nine years, is around the corner. Asia Bibi was found guilty of blasphemy in 2010 due to [...]
