A Rwandan priest ministering to prisoners convicted of genocide has said that the mystery of Good Friday speaks to the immense suffering endured by the Tutsis people. With the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda falling on Good Friday this year (7th April), Father [...]
Twenty years after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, Christians in Iraq continue to fight for their right to be treated as equal citizens and to live their faith free from persecution. The visit of Pope Francis was a sign of hope in this quest. Christians once lived in peace and security [...]
“Today, as the world is increasingly tried by wars and straying from God, we need the Mercy of the Father even more.” Pope Francis made this appeal for peace on today (12 April) as he spoke to pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the weekly General Audience. In his [...]
“Papua New Guinea is a distant and mostly forgotten country. Only three provinces are connected by road, the rest are isolated”, Father Martín Prado, from Argentina, told Aid to the Church in Need during a recent visit to the foundation’s headquarters in Germany. Father Prado was only just ordained, and [...]
A Christian man in Pakistan, who languished in jail for nearly eight years, has been released after he was acquitted by a court in Lahore. Humayun Allahrakha (formerly known as Humayun Faisal Masih), now 32, was burning newspaper in Sanda, a town in Lahore district, in May 2015 when Muslim [...]
In Uruguay the Catholic Church holds a far less influential position in society than in most other countries of Latin America. Only around 30% of the country‘s 3.5 million or so citizens declare themselves as Catholics, and religious faith and practice have been largely relegated to the private sphere. This, [...]
Two Priests were abducted in recent weeks in Haiti, a Country in the midst of a deep crisis. While one of them managed to escape after several days in the hands of his kidnappers, the other was released on March 23. “When will this spate of violence end?" asks Father [...]
A delegation from Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) recently travelled to West Bengal, in the Eastern part of India, to get to know the tiny and threatened Christian community up close. Project trip to West Bengal and Orissa (Odisha) Christians in India are a minority threatened [...]
Kinza is just 14 years old, lives in Lahore, one of Pakistan's main cities, and was kidnapped from her home on 19 September last year by five men. Raped, forced to convert to Islam and marry one of the kidnappers, the young girl was eventually released after her parents alerted [...]
Addressing the 52nd session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Archbishop Fortunatus Nwachukwu, Secretary of the Dicastery for Evangelisation, stressed the desire of the Holy See to bring to the attention of this Council "the plight of many individuals and communities who endure persecution because of their religious beliefs" [...]
