IRAQ  Ankawa warehouse turned into “Santa’s Workshop” for Nineveh children   Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is committed to ensuring that the Iraqi children from the Nineveh plains will not be without Christmas presents this year. It is a large warehouse with white and grey walls. Dozens of [...]

“Jerusalem should be at the end of these negotiations, not the beginning” - Archbishop Pizzaballa   Within the framework of a conference on persecuted Christians in the Middle East held at the European Parliament in Brussels on Tuesday, December 5th co-organized by Aid to the Church in Need, Mark Riedemann [...]

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Holy See calls for a negotiated solution between Israelis and Palestinians   “The only negotiated solution between Israelis and Palestinians must lead to a stable and lasting peace, and guarantee the peaceful coexistence of two States,” stated the Holy See in a press release relating to the status of Israel and the peace process in [...]

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“Please be our voice to your policymakers and media!” - appeal from Patriarch Younan III   His Beatitude Ignatius Younan III, Patriarch of the Syriac Catholics worldwide, addressed a group of 30 representatives of European NGOs gathered to hear about the situation of Christians in Syria and Iraq after the [...]

European Parliament holds the first ever Public Hearing on Persecuted Christians    Aid to the Church in Need invited to present its recently published report "Persecuted and Forgotten?" and comment on possible solutions As “Red Wednesday” was being observed in many countries around the world commemorating the sacrifice of the martyrs [...]

EGYPT Catholic leader says government needs to fight fundamentalism Egypt is struggling to cope with increasing violence and fundamentalism, but the government is taking steps to change the culture, according to Patriarch Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak, the head of the Coptic Catholic Church. The Patriarch said that following Islamic extremist attacks [...]

LEBANON Christians have a vital role in the Middle East peace process Maronite Catholic bishop calls on Western governments to recognize the vital role of Christians in bringing peace to the Middle East. Every third person is by now a refugee in Lebanon, the majority of them being Moslems. Absorbing [...]

BURUNDI “Christianity is a religion of witnesses”    Since April of 2015 and since President Pierre Nkurunziza declared himself willing to run for a third term of office, Burundi has been experiencing a severe political crisis that has claimed the lives of hundreds and caused the exile of thousands of [...]