Religious Freedom Report – New edition – 21.10.2025
Launch of ACN Religious Freedom in the World Report 2025 – MORNING SESSION
https://www.youtube.com/live/iFBx7EwWvb0 Official presentation in Rome of Aid to the Church in Need Religious Freedom in the World Report, with a keynote address by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of His Holiness. Report findings presented by Marta Petrosillo, Editor-in-Chief. Followed by the panel “Persecuted but Not Forgotten – [...]
Pope thanks children who prayed for peace in ACN campaign
This was the 20th edition of ACN’s One Million Children Praying the Rosary campaign. Pope Leo XIV kept up the tradition of his predecessor, Pope Francis, by promoting the One Million Children Praying the Rosary campaign, organised by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), on social media, with a [...]
GAZA: First Sunday of Peace after the Ceasefire
The parish priest of Gaza called on his flock to “forgive all those who have failed and to ask forgiveness” for their own shortcomings, as preparation for what he hopes will be an end to this war. Father Gabriel Romanelli, parish priest of the Holy Family Church in Gaza, shared [...]
POPE LEO TO ACN: “Your service bears fruit in countless lives”
On 10 October 2025, His Holiness Pope Leo XIV received the pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) International in a private audience at the Vatican, marking 25 years of the foundation’s continued mission to defend the right to religious freedom and to give a voice to Christians [...]
SYRIA: “Do not forget Syria”
The Church in Syria has been sheltering families during renewed violence in Syria following the recent election. Speaking to Aid to the Church in need, Father Hugo Alaniz, who has been a missionary in Aleppo for more than a decade said the last 24 hours have been harrowing for the [...]
Supporting Sudan’s Church in Crisis
As Sudan reels from civil war and displacement, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is standing firm with the Church and its people - empowering catechists, supporting missionaries, and helping communities hold fast to their faith. Father Jorge Naranjo, a Spanish Comboni missionary now based in Port Sudan, recently [...]
IRAQ: ACN Scholarships are lifelines for young people
For many students at the Catholic University in Erbil (CUE), childhood was marked by sorrow, fleeing, and fear. But through the compassion of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), those heartbreaking stories are being rewritten. ACN scholarships have given students like Yohanna Yaqub Alzebari not just a chance to [...]
CUBA: Religious Sisters on the frontline in remote villages
Religious sisters have been holding the fort – dealing with wild youths – in a remote part of Cuba that priests can only visit once a month. The Missionary Sisters of Jesus, Word and Victim (Misioneras de Jesús Verbo y Víctima) (JVV) have been entrusted with the parish of Guasimal [...]
MEXICO: Where faith is the last refuge
In Guerrero, one of the most violent states in Mexico, faith is the last refuge for a people who live under the weight of organised crime. Bishop José de Jesus González of the Diocese of Chilpancingo-Chilapa carries out his pastoral mission with a commitment that has put him, quite literally, [...]