The Apostolic Vicariate of Mitú in Colombia covers 2,000 square miles, making it larger than Belgium, the Netherlands, or Switzerland. This is wild country, and the pastoral work here is mostly of a missionary nature. Mitú is also where a lone ACN benefactor lives out his faith, as an example [...]
Christians in Pakistan have demanded Punjab officials bring to justice the perpetrators of the brutal attack on Nazir Gill Masih in Sargodha, which resulted in his death. In a recent report sent to the international Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), the Catholic Church’s National Commission for [...]
The Rwandan genocide of 1994 is known worldwide, but what is less well known is that it resulted in the neighbouring eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo being shaken by successive wars and crises. Over the course of these three decades, the Congolese church, with the help of [...]
On the 10th anniversary of ISIS seizing Mosul – heralding its invasion of the Nineveh Plains – an Iraqi archbishop has said more help is needed for the Christian community to thrive. Speaking to Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil said that around 9,000 [...]
A priest is helping Sisters care for hungry and traumatised internal refugees who have fled their homes because of the ongoing civil war in Sudan. Father Jacob Thelekkadan is helping the local Salesian Sisters care for about 80 IDPs (internally displaced people) sheltering at the Sisters’ Dar Mariam residence in [...]
Two years on, terrorists suspected of murdering more than 40 worshippers during Pentecost Sunday Mass in south-west Nigeria still have not been charged, but parishioners’ faith is stronger than ever, say local sources. Father Michael Abugan – parish priest at St Francis Xavier’s Catholic Church, Owo where the massacre took [...]
A leading Catholic bishop has made an impassioned plea calling on world powers to come together and demand that the Pakistan authorities act to protect the lives of persecuted minority faith groups under increasing threat from flagrant misuse of the country’s notorious blasphemy laws. Bishop Samson Shukardin, President of the [...]
The international Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) supports a prison ministry programme for priests and lay volunteer missionaries in the Archdiocese of Guayaquil, Ecuador, to care for and accompany both prisoners and their families, offering hope in the environment of insecurity that has taken over the [...]
The international Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need is in close contact with its local partners in Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina, the areas worst affected by the floods, and is committed to helping with recovery efforts. Torrential rain has already led to the deaths of [...]
24th May marked the centenary of Chinese bishops entrusting their country to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Despite governmental constraints and surveillance, thousands of pilgrims flocked to Sheshan Basilica, 22 miles outside of Shanghai to celebrate the event. Catholic prelates consecrated the East Asian nation to Our Lady of China, Queen [...]
