MONGOLIA - The Church celebrates 25 years of presence After 66 years of communist dictatorship, Mongolia drafted its first constitution in 1992 and religious freedom was recognized for the first time. That same year the country established diplomatic relations with the Holy See, and the Catholic Church established a presence [...]
IRAQ - Archbishop calls for educational and constitutional reform to combat terrorism Habib al-Naufali, Chaldean Archbishop of Basra, spoke at the second International Conference on Victims of Ethnic and Religious Violence in the Middle East , which took place in the Royal Palace of El Pardo in Spain. According [...]
Cardinal Baltazar Porras: “The room to manoeuvre freely is getting smaller and smaller. At the moment, everything here is one-dimensional.” During a visit to the international head office of the pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), the archbishop of Mérida, Cardinal Baltazar Enrique Porras, spoke with María [...]
SYRIA - “Freedom crucified!” Testimony of a priest abducted by IS How did I – taken hostage by a group of jihadists, imprisoned for almost five months, frequently threatened with beheading, and after witnessing the abduction and imprisonment of 250 of my parishioners – how did I respond to the experience [...]
EGYPT - Christian pilgrims massacred when gunmen attack buses Gunmen attacked a bus convoy carrying Coptic Christians in Minya, central Egypt, killing at least 28 people including children and wounding 25 others. Two buses carrying worshipers from the nearby province of Beni Suef and a pickup truck carrying laborers [...]
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ACN announces more help for the Middle East as crisis deepens A leading Catholic charity, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), has announced a series of extra emergency aid packages for people in Syria and Iraq escaping persecution and grappling with the onset of winter. ACN is rolling out [...]
Children’s workshops – a way forward to end the cycle of crime and violence in Honduras In an interview with Stephen Axisa, National Director of ACN Malta, Mgr Bonello the bishop of Juticalpa in Honduras spoke of the difficult times the country was going through. Honduras’ problems of violence, [...]
ACN Malta launches latest Report- Persecuted and Forgotten? Persecuted and Forgotten?, a detailed Report on the extent of Christian persecution worldwide produced by Aid to the Church in Need was launched in Malta last Saturday, 24 October. The launch took place at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Hall, Birkirkara. The [...]
