Attacks against Christians in Burkina Faso are becoming more common and many people do not know if they will survive for another day, according to a local missionary. Many Christians have seen their loved ones “beheaded, raped or reduced to sexual slavery”, Father Pierre Rouamba, Prior General of the Missionary [...]

There were tears of sadness and fear in Pakistan on Sunday (20 th August) as a crowd of 700 attended Mass outside their burnt-out church following one of the country’s worst outbreaks of persecution in a generation. Amid tight security, Bishop Indrias Rehmat of Faisalabad presided at the Mass held [...]

After 21 Christians were killed and more than 10 critically injured by Fulani militants in Plateau State, Nigeria last week, local sources said similar attacks are becoming more common, and perpetrators are rarely held to account. The attack took place in the early hours of 10th August when armed Fulani [...]

Prayer, processions, adoration, catechism, but also plenty of fun was the order of the day as thousands of young Christians gathered in Syria and in Lebanon, physically distant, but emotionally united to the multitude who were in Lisbon with Pope Francis. Hundreds of thousands of young Catholics gathered in Lisbon [...]

Nearly 1,000 panic-stricken Christians in Pakistan spent last night in fields of sugar cane having narrowly escaped rampaging mobs who set about targeting their homes, destroying everything down to the last lightbulb. Reporting back from a visit to Jaranwala, near Faisalabad, where Islamists on Wednesday, 16th August carried out a [...]

Up to 15 church buildings have been attacked and hundreds of Christian homes destroyed after extremists went on the rampage in Pakistan. Christians from the Punjab town of Jaranwala, near Faisalabad, fled en masse as fanatics began throwing rocks and stones and setting fire to buildings. The incident follows an [...]

A Catholic archbishop in north-east India, who has seen his diocese at the centre of a wave of deadly attacks, has issued an urgent appeal for prayers “to transform the minds of the people who are led by hatred and religious violence”. In a letter to Aid to the Church [...]

Religious intolerance in the Holy Land is on the rise and the desecration of churches is becoming more common – but Church leaders are determined to launch large-scale initiatives to help young people discover the riches of their faith. Youth formation in the Parish of St. Catherine in Bethlehem, [...]

A religious Sister in Ghana has recounted how she has rescued more than 130 children from being murdered by those who believe they are “evil”. Sister Stan Therese Mumuni of the Marian Sisters of Eucharistic Love founded a home in Yendi Diocese, northern Ghana for children with mental and physical [...]

Almost nine years after hundreds of thousands of Christians were forced to flee from their homes due to the occupation of their lands by ISIS, efforts continue to rebuild lives and infrastructure. ACN has just helped complete one of these projects in the city of Dohuk. On 6 August 2014, [...]