“The Saints, our brothers and sisters, loved Jesus and his life. Be their friends, and they will accompany you throughout your life.” With these few short words Pope Francis introduces the book "Online with Saints". This new multi media book is available in both printed form and online for PC [...]
A 14-year-old Pakistani girl’s struggle to be free of the man who raped her – and blackmailed her into marriage and religious conversion – has taken an unexpected turn after the defendant failed to appear in court. The court, in Rawalpindi, requested fresh evidence, including medical reports, as well as [...]
Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has provided PPE for the priests as well as 92 seminarians and around 1,000 members of Ukraine’s religious communities. Father Grzegorz, a Polish priest from Lublin who is now based in Lviv, was able to visit COVID-19 patients twice a week thanks to [...]
REINHARD BACKES, head of Middle East projects for Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) reports on his fact-finding mission to Lebanon (Sept. 7-16, 2020). What is the situation in Lebanon? The Lebanese people, and especially the Christians because their quarters were most badly hit by the blast, are suffering [...]
FOR THE PAST SEVEN MONTHS in Kaduna State, in north-central Nigeria, there have been incessant attacks by Fulani herdsmen on Christian communities, killing 178 people. In a statement by the Catholic bishops of Kaduna Province sent to Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), the bishops said that “dark clouds [...]
A court in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore has sentenced a Christian man, Asif Pervaiz, to death under the country’s blasphemy law, after he was accused of sending blasphemous text message to his former boss. According to his lawyer, Saif-ul-Malook, Pervaiz, 37, has been in custody since 2013 after [...]
The Center for Deacon Services was established in 2010 by the Patriarchate of the Coptic Catholic Church. It offers many social and pastoral activities and initiatives aimed primarily at women, families and young people. In addition, there are various support programs for those in need, including life skills classes, literacy classes, [...]
In the poorest, remotest and most inaccessible regions, the Missionary Sisters of Jesus Word and Victim, minister to the faithful in their poverty and bring them hope. The congregation was founded in 1961 in Peru and is active today in no fewer than seven countries of Latin America. In the [...]
Until recent times, Lebanon was the only country in the Middle East with a Christian majority. Today, however, Christians make up no more than an estimated 34% of the total population. And among young people aged under 25 only one quarter are now Christians. The emigration among the Christian population [...]
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