March 15 marks the ninth anniversary of the start of the conflict in Syria. "The situation is terrible," said Sister Maria Lúcia Ferreira, a sister from the Mar Yakub Monastery in Qara, in the Christian region of Qalamoun, in a statement to the Portuguese headquarters of the ACN international foundation. [...]
Despite the crisis in Burkina Faso and its consequent danger to life and limb, courageous young men are braving the odds to continue their studies for the priesthood and Aid to the Church in Need is standing with them through it all. Sixty one (61) seminarians belonging to the diocese [...]
Asia Bibi has taken upon herself a new and great cause! One of defending victims of the Blasphemy Law in Pakistan which has led to the unjust arrest and death sentence of religious minorities especially Christians in the Country. As a victim of the Blasphemy Law herself, she has a [...]
A delegation of Aid to the Church in Need led by the Director of the Foundation’s Italian National Office, Alessandro Monteduro who recently visited the camps of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Burkina Faso have reported that there are almost 800,000 displaced people and more than 2,300 schools are closed [...]
A Kindergarten which will care for 125 children of Batnaya, Iraq is underway as part of a massive programme devised by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) to help revive the most devastated of the 13 Christian towns/villages in the Nineveh Plains. After two years of Islamist occupation, just [...]
A great number of Nigerian Catholics led by the Country’s Episcopal Conference took to the streets yesterday, 1st March 2020 to protest the high level of insecurity in the Country in a bid to draw attention of the federal government and the international community to the plight Christians and to [...]
Bishop Georges Varkey Puthiyakulangara of Port-Bergé, northern Madagascar has lamented that his country is being islamised on a fast pace. The most worrying situation according to him, is the fact that extremist muslims are exploiting poor non-Muslim women by paying them to wear the burka. In an interview with Aid [...]
As in many other parts of the world, the prisons in Latin America are hopelessly overfilled and conditions within them are extremely hard. For example, the prison in Callao, Peru, was designed for 1500 prisoners but currently holds 5,600. For these prisoners the Catholic prison outreach which is supported by [...]
