https://www.youtube.com/live/nOnAPSeoCjE Official presentation in Rome of Aid to the Church in Need Religious Freedom in the World Report. Afternoon panel on “Religious Freedom in the West – Cultural Crisis or Silent Persecution?” Experts in law, media, and human rights reflect on the growing challenges to faith and freedom [...]
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 – [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
NIGERIA – Attacks by Fulani tribesman are a forgotten and overlooked tragedy Christians in northern Nigeria, in addition to suffering attacks by the terrorist Boko Haram group, are also facing a terrible situation as a result of the bloody attacks by Fulani herders against Christian villages in Nigeria’s so-called Middle [...]
AFTER 11 YEARS OF EFFORT: new local priest ordained in the Solomon Islands On Dec. 8, 2018, the Diocese of Gizo—located at the furthest corner of the world in the center of the South Pacific—celebrated with great joy the ordination of Deacon Thomas Patavolomo in his home community of Voru [...]
Iraq: Christian leaders call for more support for the Christians of Nineveh “Please do not be a silent bystander to our drama. We call on you to support the Christians of Iraq… while there is still time.” This was the urgent appeal underlying the joint Call for Action signed by [...]
PEACE IS ON EVERYONE'S WISH LIST How Christians in need celebrate Christmas “Christmas is the celebration of the longing for our better self, for the heaven we search for in vain here on Earth, and for the carefree life that exists only in heaven,” Father Werenfried van Straaten [...]
Holy Mass for Monday of the Second Week of Advent (Is 35:1-10; Ps 84; Lk 5:17-26) Königstein, 10.12.2018 Homily by Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, President Today’s readings present salvation to us as a meeting: “Look, your God is coming,… he is coming to save you”, says Isaiah, and so we too [...]
