Catholics in Burkina Faso are undaunted by Islamist persecution – according to their bishop – in spite of 10 attacks over the last six months in his diocese alone, including one last week, which left eight people dead and nine others injured. Speaking to Aid to the Church in Need [...]
It has been three years since the kidnapping of Leah Sharibu and a senior Christian leader in Nigeria is appealing to people around the world to call on their governments to demand action to free her. Rev Gideon Para-Mallam pointed out that the teenage Christian girl – who was captured [...]
They travel to places where a Priest can rarely visit. In the poorest, remotest and most inaccessible regions, the Missionary Sisters of Jesus Word and Victim (Misioneras de Jesus Verbo y Victima) minister to the people in their poverty and abandonment and bring them hope. The congregation was founded in [...]
Sister Shobka Rani Talari is not daunted by the poor roads that she often has to take into the jungle as she carries out her work for the mission in Chhaygaon, which is located in the Archdiocese of Guwahati in the impoverished north-eastern part of India. She is always on [...]
Ever since the outbreak of the pandemic, Polish Missionary in the Ukraine, Father Grzegorz Draus, has been visiting coronavirus patients in the hospitals twice a week. “I visit every room in the hospital,” he explains to ACN. “I bless the patients and comfort them by the Good News: God’s love. [...]
This report gives an update about the courageous work of some our partners who are literally on the frontline of Faith, braving the odds to reach out to the poor and suffering faithful in remote communities. You will read about how Aid to the Church in Need with your help, [...]
Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) helps institutions dedicated to St. Joseph all over the world In honour of the Year of St. Joseph, the international Catholic pastoral charity, ACN is highlighting the many projects it supports in Latin America, Africa, the Near East, Eastern Europe and Asia which [...]
Western sanctions against the Syrian government have plunged the country’s people into abject poverty but have left the Assad regime unaffected – according to a leading bishop from Aleppo. Speaking to Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Melkite Greek Catholic Archbishop Jean-Clément Jeanbart of Aleppo condemned the sanctions as [...]
A new initiative by the government is meant to put a hold to the painful discrimination and persecution religious minorities in Pakistan- Christians and Hindus, face from the majority Muslim population. ACN asked Shahid Mobeen, Pakistani Professor of Philosophy in Rome, about his evaluation of the situation. Dear Prof. Mobeen: [...]
In his Lenten message, Pope Francis asked the faithful to share stories from persecuted Christians. Catholics can learn a lot from persecuted Christians in Africa, an advocate for Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has told a Vatican program. Food, water, land scarcity, religion and extreme poverty are putting [...]
