THE LAWYER FIGHTING the conviction of a Christian man serving a life sentence for blasphemy in Pakistan says the appeal hearing has been postponed almost 70 times. Nearly 11 years after lawyer Khalil Tahir Sandhu submitted the first appeal petition in Lahore High Court challenging the conviction of Imran Masih. [...]
Thanks to the generosity of our benefactors, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) was once again able to fulfil its mission and support over 5,230 projects, providing assistance for a wide range of needs in 139 different countries, mainly in Africa and the Middle East in the past year [...]
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A Christian family in Pakistan have gone to the High Court in their fight to win back their 14-year-old girl, who they say was abducted by a man who forced her to marry him and demanded she abandon her faith. Lawyer Khalil Tahir Sandhu confirmed to Catholic charity Aid to [...]
As part of its campaign to support priests and religious working with the weak and vulnerable in areas affected by COVID-19, Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has announced 11 new projects in Brazil which has the second highest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the world. [...]
Despite being surrounded by war, persecution and destruction, the archbishop of war-torn Aleppo in Syria says that he’s still able to find happiness. “Working for the Lord fills my life with meaning and gives me a solid reason for being,” wrote Archbishop Jean-Clément Jeanbart in a Pentecost message. His reflection [...]
Project partners of Aid to the Church in Need from various countries have been asking for help from the pontifical foundation to support radio stations and improve their audiovisual equipment to transmit the Mass, offer spiritual and human formation Along with the support of priests, men and women religious to [...]
Aid to the Church in Need is providing emergency aid for struggling Christian families in Pakistan, facing hardship and hunger as a consequence of the COVID-19 lockdown in the country The measures taken by Pakistan to contain the coronavirus pandemic have further exacerbated the social hardship facing the Christian minority [...]
MSGR. NOËL CASTOMA is pastor of St. Joseph’s Syriac Catholic Church in Qaraqosh, on the Nineveh Plains in northern Iraq. While several dozen people from outside the community have been quarantined with an eye on preventing COVID-19 infections, the town itself has seen no coronavirus cases as yet. Nonetheless, the [...]
Dear Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), We would like to share the joy of one event which took place in our church of Saint Anthony in Istanbul- that is assistance to the needy. In time of COVID-19 the community of migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East [...]
