The Bishop of Mamfe asks for prayers for the release of nine kidnapped religious and laypeople. The whereabouts of nine people who were kidnapped on the afternoon of Friday 16 September, in Nchang, in the Diocese of Mamfe, located in southwestern Cameroon remains unknown. Five priests, one nun and three [...]
Children around the world are being asked to pray for peace in countries devastated by war, violence or crippling poverty. The call comes as part of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN)’s “A Million Children Praying the Rosary” initiative, which asks young people in parishes, kindergartens, schools and families [...]
Pakistan Church leaders have said the government is doing very little in response to the floods crisis and have renewed their urgent appeals to help the millions affected by the catastrophe. The bishops went on to thank charities including Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) which earlier this month [...]
PATRIARCH BECHARA BOUTROS RAI COMPARED LEBANON TO A SICK PERSON who refuses treatment and so continues to get worse. Action is required, he insists, if the country is to continue to fulfil its prophetic role in the Middle East. The Patriarch of the Maronite Church decried political stalemates which prevent [...]
Pope Francis will be participating in the seventh edition of the Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions that was to be held Sept. 14-15 in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. According to Bishop José Luis Mumbiela Sierra, of the Diocese of the Holy Trinity, in Almaty, this event traces its roots [...]
On the night of Tuesday 6 September an Italian religious sister, aged 83, was brutally murdered in an armed attack on the Chipene mission in the diocese of Nacala. ACN International deplores the fact that the religious dimension is becoming increasingly prominent in the attacks of the Islamist terrorists Sister [...]
Thursday 15 September, Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, will mark the end of the “Console your People” initiative, to beg for peace in Syria and for the protection of all Christians in that country, which was promoted by pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). The idea [...]
Stradch is a small village of 3,000 people, located around 25 kilometres from Lviv, in Ukraine. The village is home to a Marianshrine and is also where Fr Mykola Konrad and lay catechist Volodymyr Pryjma were martyred. Last October, the Archbishop of Lviv consecrated the newly built Pilgrim House. From [...]
The "Back to School" programme launched by ACN will help assure the continuity of the Christian presence in Lebanon and the coexistence between the different religions The international foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has just launched its "Back to school" aid programme in Lebanon, which will benefit [...]
With over a thousand dead, and many more in great need, the Church has mobilised to help victims of flooding in Pakistan. Two bishops contacted ACN to explain the situation, and the foundation has committed to helping with projects in Hyderabad and Karachi, two of the dioceses in Sindh province, [...]
