2022 was a year of celebrations for the Catholic Church in Bulgaria, with the 20th anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s visit to the country, and the 70th anniversary of the murder of four Bulgarian martyrs, three Assumptionist priests and one Passionist Bishop by the Communist regime. Vatican envoy Cardinal [...]
Bishop Paul Hinder, leader of the Church in Northern Arabia, says that the Pope will be met by a festive Catholic community composed mostly of hardworking migrants, when he travels to Bahrain next week. Pope Francis is travelling to Bahrain from 3-6 November to be with the local Christian population, [...]
At the heart of ACN’s mission is ensuring continuous support for missionaries and the faithful in different parts of the world where the Church is poor, persecuted, suffering or in pastoral need. One of the most important and effective ways this has been achieved through the years has been through [...]
The situation in Kiev is getting worse and worse . At this time, a very long military convoy, more than 60 kilometers long, is heading towards the Ukrainian capital. As the city comes under intensifying fire, priests and their parishioners hold out in bunkers and bomb shelters. In many bunkers [...]
THE BISHOP OF MAMFE, CAMEROON, HAS EXPRESSED HIS GRATITUDE FOR THE RELEASE OF THE PRIESTS, LAYPEOPLE AND A WOMAN RELIGIOUS, but has repeated his condemnation of the attack on the church in which they were taken by rebels. “I am sincerely grateful to all those who joined us in this [...]
TWO MONTHS AGO, MARYAMU JOSEPH (16) ESCAPED FROM BOKO HARAM after being held for nine years. Along with 21 others, she was abducted in 2014 at the age of seven when the terror group attacked her community of Bazza and took her to a camp. Two of her siblings were [...]
More than 840,000 children including 3700 from Malta/Gozo responded to Pope Francis’ appeal for children to join the “One million children praying the Rosary” initiative, promoted by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), which took place October 18. St. Theresa School Kercem, Gozo This data only includes [...]
Hungary's State Secretary for the Aid of Persecuted Christians and the Hungary Helps Program, Tristan Azbej, says Hungary has supported hundreds of thousands of persecuted Christians worldwide. He spoke after briefing representatives of the Visegrád Group: Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. The state secretary told the conference in [...]
Bishop Wilfred Chikpa Anagbe, of the Diocese of Makurdi, spoke at an event in the European Parliament saying that Christians in Nigeria need help, “before it becomes too late”. The bishop of Makurdi, in Nigeria, has denounced the lack of solidarity and practical aid for persecuted Christians in his country, [...]
In 2014, hundreds of Christian families had to flee Mosul and the cities of the Nineveh Plains in northern Iraq. They had abandoned their homes and all their belongings in the face of the advance of the Islamic State (IS) militias, they finally found refuge in Baghdad in and around [...]
