For several years now Venezuela has been going through a crisis almost without parallel – a crisis only further exacerbated by the pandemic. Almost 80% of the country‘s approximately 33 million citizens today suffer extreme poverty, and many indeed real hunger. There is a dire lack of basic necessities, including [...]
The Catholic Church of Pakistan now has its first official candidate to sainthood and martyrdom, Akash Bashir, a lay Catholic and a young victim of a suicide bombing who was martyred in his bid to prevent a suicide bomber from entering a packed church in 2015. Celebrating the feast of [...]
The conflict-torn north, where hundreds of thousands of people are living in makeshift camps, is one of the areas that is being hit the hardest. Mozambican bishops have expressed their concern about the effects of a tropical storm which is sweeping the country and making life even harder for the [...]
A human-rights expert has called on governments to take orchestrated attacks on Christian women seriously and offer help to survivors – including asylum. Professor Michele Clark – who carried out first-hand research into cases in Egypt involving Coptic Christian women being kidnapped, forced to convert and sexually abused under the [...]
Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is calling on people to join with Pope Francis today (Wednesday) in a day of prayer for Ukraine. At the end of the Angelus on Sunday (23rd January), the Pontiff declared today (Wednesday, 26th January) a day of prayer for peace in Ukraine, describing his concerns [...]
Iraq archbishop, who steered his faithful through the genocidal years of ISIS violence, has enthusiastically welcomed an essential lifeline – supported by ACN for the region’s only Christian radio station. The UK Office of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has backed Voice for Peace, which broadcasts across the [...]
On the outskirts of Tyre, the ancient coastal city in southern Lebanon where Jesus preached, life now has become one of impoverishment, as it has for most of the population of Lebanon. "For two years, our country has been in a terrifying economic crisis. Our families are living in great [...]
How can they possibly forget the attack on the Catholic mission of Nangololo, in the Muidumbe district of Cabo Delgado? Without doubt this was one of the most savage attacks to have occurred in the diocese of Pemba since the jihadist terrorists began their reign of terror in October 2017 [...]
A prominent Nigerian bishop has reportedly been ordered in for questioning by a state security agency, after the prelate criticized Nigeria’s government for complicity in the face of kidnappings and other persecution of the country’s Christians. Bishop Matthew Kukah, who leads the Sokoto diocese in Nigeria’s northwestern corner, released a [...]
Extremist Hindu mobs are routinely attacking Christians on the ground that they are violating "anti-conversion" laws. On Christmas Day the Indian government announced that it had refused to renew the foreign-funding license for Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity. The move puts at risk the very existence of the charity that [...]
