The Religious Freedom Report (RFR), produced by pontifical charity Aid to the Church in Need, will be launched at a global level on 22 June. The report’s findings confirm that most of the world’s population lives in countries where religious freedom is severely restricted. Events are scheduled to take place [...]
The Catholic Church has been playing a discrete but important role in dialogue that could effectively end the plague of terrorist violence in northern Mozambique. Father Eduardo Roca, a project partner of ACN, founded the Interreligious Centre for Peace, in the Diocese of Pemba, in 2017. That same year, terrorist [...]
An Indian nun and her mother have been arrested in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, following allegations of religious conversion, a violation of local anti-conversion laws. Sister Bibha Kerketta of the Daughters of St. Anne congregation, her mother, and three other individuals were taken into custody on June 6 [...]
The world seems to ignore what is happening in Nigeria, where terrorist groups spread fear, destruction and death. This is just one of the biggest threats. Unfortunately, Christians are persecuted not only by jihadist groups that seek to establish a caliphate, that is to say a territory governed by a [...]
Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) will from 14 June 2023 be led by Regina Lynch, a long-serving Project Director of the charity. She takes over the role of Executive Director for the next five years from Dr Thomas Heine-Geldern (71). Cardinal Mauro Piacenza remains President of the foundation, [...]
On the first anniversary of the Pentecost Sunday 2022 church attack in Nigeria, the bishop of the diocese where the slaughter took place has said that the evils of terrorism can scar people for a lifetime. Bishop Jude Arogundade told Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) that the extremists [...]
In February 2023 a powerful earthquake struck the region of southern Turkey and northern Syria. At least 50,000 people died and a huge number of buildings were destroyed. Among the areas most hard-hit was the city of Aleppo in Syria, already devastated by the civil war in the country. Father [...]
The war in Ukraine has prompted the greatest wave of refugees since the Second World War. All in all almost 15 million people have been forced to flee, around 7 million of them within their own country. Many have found shelter in Church-run facilities. Currently 98 women and children have [...]
Although the number of Christians in Iraq continues to be low, there are signs of rebirth of the Church in areas that were severely impacted by the Islamic State group’s rule there almost a decade ago. On a recent visit to the United States, Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda outlined ways [...]
Amid the ongoing crackdown by President Daniel Ortegas’ Sandinista regime against the Catholic Church and political opponents, police authorities in Nicaragua have arrested yet another priest. Father Jaime Iván Montesinos Sauceda, of the Parish of San Juan Pablo II in the Diocese of Matagalpa, was arrested on Tuesday night, 23 [...]
