Basic products, medicines, clothes, and food are arriving in small trucks Angel Sisters giving some food for the refugees at the main station in Vinnytsia. who make their way to the Diocese of Kamianets-Podilski to alleviate the crisis caused by the war in Ukraine. 4 Emergency aid has [...]
Heroic Sisters in Ukraine helping some of the country’s more than six million IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons) have received vital support from a leading Catholic charity. Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has announced a new emergency aid package supporting Roman Catholic women’s orders tending to IDPs in Lviv [...]
Boko Haram militants are conducting night-time raids on villages in Cameroon and killing all the men, according to a Church source. Speaking to Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), a local priest, who asked to remain anonymous for security reasons, said the Islamists kill the men so that they [...]
On 25 March, in the Cathedral of Rumbek, South Sudan, Italian missionary ChristianCarlassare was ordained bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Rumbek, a position that had been vacant for 10 years. In an interview provided beforehand to international foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), the bishop described the [...]
BISHOP of Waterford and Lismore, Alphonsus Cullinan, has invited a Ukrainian family to stay with him at the Bishop’s house for however long they need. In a message posted online regarding the current situation in the Ukraine, Bishop Phonsie encouraged people to welcome Ukrainian refugees to Ireland and open up [...]
Boko Haram militants are expanding their operations to rural villages in Nigeria and on the border with other countries, a Catholic Priest in Cameroon has said, adding that the militants have paralyzed pastoral activities in a huge chunk of his Parish. In a message to Catholic Pontifical foundation, Aid to [...]
Lviv during the war: Sisters sewing military vests for Ukrainian soldiers. Millions of people have had to flee their homes to save themselves and their children, abandoning the regions of the east and south of Ukraine, and heading west. According to recent figures by UNHCR almost four million [...]
In the flight to find a safe place to live, many Ukrainians are seeking to leave the country. Some of those fleeing to Poland have taken refuge in the seminary and retreat house facilities of the Latin Archdiocese of Lviv, located in Bryukhovychi, on the outskirts of Lviv. Since 24 [...]
For the Roman Catholic Bishop of Odessa, Stanislav Schyrokoradiuk, one of the main reasons for the invasion of Ukraine is the way the Russian population has been misinformed: “We Ukrainians are the victims of the war; the Russian people are the victims of propaganda.” Last Tuesday the bishop took part [...]
At the conclusion of today's General Audience, Pope Francis asks for prayers for his weekend visit to Malta from 2-3 April, while thanking all those involved in the preparations. Pope Francis spoke about his Apostolic Journey coming up this weekend to the Mediterranean island of Malta. The Pope said he [...]
