The government has progressively restricted the social and charitable activities of the Church Mons. Fikremariam Hagos, Bishop of Segheneity , in southern Eritrea, has been detained by the police at the Asmara airport when he entered the country after a trip to Europe. The Eritrean government has not made official statements, but [...]
“The Church has become a victim of the violence”, says Sister Marcela Catozza, a missionary in Haiti. The Italian nun claims that the situation has taken a turn for the worse since June, with churches and institutions coming under attack. The small Caribbean state of Haiti is going through a [...]
With the war entering its eighth month, pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) spoke to Vasylij Tuchapets, Greek Catholic Bishop of Kharkiv, during a visit to the headquarters of the charity, about the importance of remaining with the people, how the war has affected pastoral work, and [...]
A leading bishop in Mozambique has revealed that extremists disguised in military uniform gathered a crowd of people together, before separating the Christians and slitting their throats one-by-one. Speaking to Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Bishop Alberto Vera Aréjula of Nacala revealed the details of the gruesome attack [...]
Pakistan, July 2019Bishop Samson Shukardin, OFM of the diocese Hydarabad Bishop Samson Shukardin of Hyderabad cannot shake the images from his visit to the flood-affected Catholic village of Mariamnagar, in southern Sindh province, earlier this month (beginning of September). “Instead of protecting themselves, the locals had placed mosquito [...]
For many Christians in Lebanon technical schools provide opportunities for future employment, and a stable environment for local families. Faced with one of the worst financial crises the world has ever seen, the Foyer de La Providence, in Sidon, has done everything it can to stay afloat and be true [...]
30th September is the feast of Saint Jerome, doctor of the Church and translator of the Bible into Latin. To mark the feast, ACN spoke to Father Emmanuel Asi, executive director of the Catholic Bible Commission of Pakistan, about the scriptures and the situation of Christians in the country. What [...]
With a long experience of persecution, the Christians of Baghdeda (Qaraqosh) know that the bad times might return, but they believe that “a Church that is not persecuted is a Church that does not carry Christ”. It is a beautiful day in Baghdeda, and families are streaming into the church [...]
In the aftermath of the fire that gutted a church in Cameroon, Bishop Aloysius Fondong of the Diocese of Mamfé entered the ruins to retrieve the Blessed Sacrament and found the sacred Hosts and the ciborium containing them to be intact. On the night of Sept. 16, armed men set [...]
“I join in the appeal of the bishops of Cameroon for the liberation of some people kidnapped in the diocese of Mamfe, including five priests and a religious sister,” the pope said on Sept. 25. Speaking in his Angelus address at the end of a Mass in the southern Italian [...]
