NEW BLESSEDS FOR THE CHURCH Every 8th day of May has been set aside as the Feast day for the 19 martyrs of Algeria who have just been beatified on December 8 at the Basilica of Santa de la Cruz, Oran Algeria by Cardinal Angelo Becciu, prefect of the Congregation [...]
YEMEN: SAVE THE CHILDREN! In his Lenten message for 2018, Pope Francis reminded the world and especially Catholics not to forget that in various parts of the world, many people, especially children, feel the daily pangs of hunger. Recently, during the bridge of peace organised by Aid to the Church [...]
ADVENT: A MOMENT OF HOPE As Christians prepare for the coming of the newborn King at Christmas, Pope Francis has invited all to a vigilant commitment, “looking outside ourselves, expanding our minds and hearts” to the needs of others, to the many people tormented by hunger, injustice and war; to [...]
LEAH SHARIBU: A CANDLE IN THE DARK Leah Sharibu is a 15-year old Nigerian girl. She was abducted when Boko Haram stormed a boarding school in the town of Dapchi, Diocese of Maiduguri in north-eastern Nigeria on 19 February 2018 kidnapping 110 school girls. Within a month after their abduction, [...]
SYRIA: PEACE FOR THE CHILDREN In the words of Cardinal Mario Zenari, the Apostolic Nuncio in Damascus, the civil war in Syria is a “slaughter of the innocents” in which many children had been “killed by bombs, drowned in the ocean, suffocated by poison gas, mutilated, traumatised, subjected to [...]
Imagine being born and brought up in an atmosphere of war; always living in fear, never knowing the peace of good night’s sleep and struggling hard to see love in the eyes of another human being because hate and destruction has taken over. This is the unfortunately the reality of [...]
A SIGN OF HOPE IN THE MIDDLE EAST According to the newly released Religious Freedom in the World Report by Aid to the Church in Need, religious freedom conditions improved in Iraq and Syria and this is hoped to reverse the exodus of Christians from the region as they are [...]
WITNESSES OF FAITH This is the title of the booklet produced by Aid to the Church in Need (Malta) in collaboration with Sr. Yvonne Gera, a Franciscan Missionary of Mary who worked in Algeria for 22 years. The book is about the 19 martyrs of Algeria namely Pierre Claverie, a [...]
A WEEKEND OF SOLIDARITY AND WITNESSING The Launch of 14th Edition of the Religious Freedom in the World Report by Aid to the Church in Need in Malta was accompanied by a series of meetings and activities. From the floodlighting in red of Auberge de Castille, Valletta and the Good [...]
A HEAVY ATTACK ON THE DIOCESE OF ALINDAO Rebel forces known as ex-Seleka from General Ali Darassa’s faction have attacked refugees taking shelter in the compound of the Cathedral of the Diocese of Alindao in the Central African Republic. The attack which occurred on 15th November 2018 left 42 people [...]
