A bishop in Ukraine has decried the destruction of thousands of euros worth of humanitarian aid by a drone strike on Lviv as an attack on the most vulnerable. Bishop Edward Kawa, Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv, told Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) that the drone strike on the [...]
Repairs to schools, churches, monasteries, a kindergarten and a youth centre are to go ahead after ACN agreed significant additional aid for families made homeless by February’s deadly earthquakes in Syria. ACN announced on 2nd October that it is providing a second tranche of aid to help vital Church-run facilities [...]
The international foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) invites all parishes, nurseries, schools and families to take part in another yearly edition of “One million children praying the Rosary”, on 18 October. “The Rosary is highly valued by God, and praying it is more necessary than ever, for [...]
Patriarch Youssef Absi, the leader of the Melkite Catholic Church, thanks ACN for its support of Christians in Lebanon and Syria and pointed out that Christians in the Middle East are leaving their ancestral homelands, despite their churches’ encouragement to stay. The Patriarch has led the Melkite Catholic Church for [...]
The support package for 464 families includes immediate relief items, renovation of homes and the purchase of vehicles for those whose livelihoods were destroyed in the attacks. Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) will be providing emergency support to the victims of anti-Christian attacks that took place in Jaranwala, [...]
The apostolic prelature of Corocoro lies high in the Andes in one of the poorest regions of Bolivia, where 80% of the population live in extreme poverty. Even such things as access to clean drinking water and adequate nutrition are by no means guaranteed, to say nothing of the need [...]
When Basma Adwar had the privilege of meeting with the Pope last June, all she could do was thank him for the scholarship that bears his name and that, thanks to ACN, has allowed her to go to university. Basma Adwar’s family moved from Baghdad to Zakho, in Iraqi Kurdistan, [...]
A bishop from Chad has highlighted the desperate plight of more than 100,000 refugees flooding into his region of the country from neighbouring war-torn Sudan. Speaking on a visit to the international project headquarters of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Bishop Philippe Abbo Chen of Mongo, eastern Chad, [...]
In the largest Muslim country in the world there is a congregation with 53 novices. On Flores Island, where prayers can still be heard, there is a congregation that is particularly successful. Every year, around two dozen girls join the community of the Daughters of Our Lady, Queen of the Holy [...]
Unidentified assailants set fire to a parish rectory in Nigeria's Kafanchan Diocese, killing a seminarian in the attack at St. Raphael's parish rectory in Fadan Kamantan. Bishop Julius Yakubu Kundi, of the Diocese of Kafanchan, Nigeria, has announced that Na'aman Danlami, a 25-year-old seminarian, died in an an attack at St. Raphael's [...]
