The Catholic Church in Nicaragua has continued to suffer persecution from President Daniel Ortega’s Sandinista Government. The latest was a recent case where police stopped a Priest from celebrating Mass. The incident took place on August 4, when Bishop Rolando Alvarez of Matagalpa, along with six priests and six lay [...]
“My sister and I had been asking for new clothes, but my parents couldn’t afford it. My mother only worked in two houses. We wanted to support our parents,” 15-year-old Saba told Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). A month after waiting for the promised dress on Easter, Saba [...]
Once again, the National Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Berdychiv, Ukraine was a place of pilgrimage on Sunday, July 17. The threat of bombardments kept most pilgrims away this year, but nonetheless the Latin-rite Ukrainian bishops, accompanied by special guest Archbishop Gintaras Grušas of Vilnius, Lithuania, gathered [...]
The very same year Bishop Oliver Doeme took charge of the Diocese of Maiduguri, in the northeast of Nigeria, a small Muslim sect transformed itself into what would become a savage terrorist group, ravaging peaceful communities and kidnapping hundreds of teenage girls. For years he watched as Boko Haram overran [...]
Sixty-year-old Georgette should be looking forward to a comfortable retirement. Instead, she is doing a job that does not even allow her to cover rent and surviving on charity. Two years after the Beirut Port Blast, her situation is far from unique. Thanks to Church projects, funded by ACN, things [...]
Sixth anniversary of the murder of the French priest at the hand of jihadists. “The martyrdom of Fr Jacques Hamel has been proven”, says Fr Paul Vigouroux, postulator for the priest’s cause of beatification, speaking to pontifical charity Aid to the Church in Need, on the sixth anniversary of his [...]
Following the murder of over twenty people in an attack in Bourasso, in the northeast of Burkina Faso, Aid to the Church in Need is calling attention to a severe deterioration of the situation in the Diocese of FadaN’Gourma, in the eastern part of the west-African country, over the past [...]
AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED (ACN) SPOKE TO BISHOP PAVLO HONCHARUK OF THE LATIN DIOCESE OF KHARKIV- ZAPORIZHZHIA. At more than 77,000 square miles, this is one of the largest dioceses in Europe, comparable to the whole territory of Syria or Belarus, covering almost all of Ukraine’s territory east [...]
During a recent visit to the headquarters of the international charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Cardinal Désiré Tsarahazana, Archbishop of Toamasina, Madagascar, insisted on the need to hold on to hope, so as to overcome evil. In this interview with ACN the Cardinal speaks of how corruption, [...]
With Sri Lanka’s priests and Sisters struggling to survive, ACN has offered a vital lifeline so that they can continue their essential ministry during the country’s state of emergency. Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is providing vital support for priests and religious who are struggling during Sri Lanka’s [...]
