In the largest Muslim country in the world there is a congregation with 53 novices. On Flores Island, where prayers can still be heard, there is a congregation that is particularly successful. Every year, around two dozen girls join the community of the Daughters of Our Lady, Queen of the Holy [...]
Unidentified assailants set fire to a parish rectory in Nigeria's Kafanchan Diocese, killing a seminarian in the attack at St. Raphael's parish rectory in Fadan Kamantan. Bishop Julius Yakubu Kundi, of the Diocese of Kafanchan, Nigeria, has announced that Na'aman Danlami, a 25-year-old seminarian, died in an an attack at St. Raphael's [...]
The leader of the Catholic Church in Kyrgyzstan was in Mongolia, where Pope Francis said that the littleness of the local churches is not a limitation, but a resource for the universal Church. The Jesuit Fr Anthony Corcoran is the Apostolic Administrator for the few hundred Catholics who live in [...]
ACN International denounces the latest attack on the Catholic Church in Nigeria, in which a seminarian was burned to death in the diocese of Kafanchan, as well as the kidnapping of another seminarian in southern Kaduna. The terrible incident took place last night, around 8 pm, Thursday 7 September, when [...]
A priest and a seminarian who had been kidnapped in the diocese of Minna, in Nigeria, were released on Wednesday, 23 August, after three weeks in captivity. According to a statement released by the Missionaries of Africa (also known as the White Fathers), “they are both fine, alive and healthy, [...]
From 1 to 4 September, Pope Francis visited Mongolia, the very small, but growing Catholic community and met with other religious leaders in the country. María Lozano, press officer for ACN International, was in the Asian country to accompany the Pope’s visit, and brings you ten interesting details about the [...]
Life is by no means easy at present in the town of Dnipro– where air raid sirens and rocket attacks are an ever present reality. 200 people from the Latin Catholic parish of Saint Joseph have already fled the city. "They are waiting for the war to end. They are [...]
ACN to accompany Pope's visit to the country that forms a bridge between central and east Asia. Pope Francis will be in Mongolia from 1 to 4 September, to visit the very small but growing Catholic community and meet with other religious leaders in the country. The head of ACN [...]
The Philippines is an archipelago in Southeast Asia that consists of 7,641 islands, 2,000 of which are inhabited. The two largest islands, Luzon and Mindanao, account for two-thirds of the country’s total population and surface area. Luzon includes Manila, the capital; Mindanao is home to most Muslims in the Philippines [...]
Four decades after the last female congregation left Mozambique because of anti-Catholic hostility following independence from Portugal, a religious Sister shared their joy at returning to the African country. Sister Mirian dos Santos told Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) how moved she was by the warm welcome the [...]
