BURKINA FASO “No creed can justify violence“   Rafael D’Aquí, the project section head with responsibility for Burkina Faso in the international Catholic pastoral charity ACN International, recently visited this African country to study the needs of the local Catholic Church. In the interview below with Maria Lozano, he explains [...]

MEXICO State of emergency declared following another earthquake   "Today more than ever our beloved Mexico and all of us who are part of it, we ask the whole world and each of you for your prayers"   On Tuesday, September 19 at 1:14 pm (local time) a 7.1-degree earthquake [...]

ACN International Pilgrimage to Fatima 12 - 15 Sep 2017   During the current year, in which the Church is celebrating the centenary of the apparitions of Our Lady to the three shepherd children in Fatima, Aid to The Church in Need (ACN) made a special pilgrimage to this, the “Altar of [...]

PHILIPPINES Priest abducted by terrorists is rescued   Fr Soganub: "I continue to believe in inter-religious dialogue"   A smiling Fr. Teresito "Chito" Soganub was presented this afternoon during a press briefing by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). The priest was immediately excused by defense officials. However, before [...]

PAKISTAN Christian schoolboy was beaten to death by Muslims at school   A 17-year-old Christian boy was beaten to death by his Muslim classmates in Pakistan on his fourth day at a new school. His father had saved money to send Sharon Masih to a prestigious, private high school because [...]

CUBA “The chapel may have collapsed, but not the Church”   In a message to ACN, Archbishop Wilfredo Pino Estevez of Camagüey tells of his visit to the most badly damaged areas of his diocese. According to the local municipal emergency services, Hurricane Irma lashed the town of Esmeralda in [...]

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC “Reconstruction will be very difficult” – Interview with Bishop Aguirre   Last week Bishop Juan José Aguirre of Bangassou denounced an attack by an Islamist group on a mission station in Gambo. The station is located in his diocese in the south-eastern part of the Central African [...]

BURKINA FASO:   “No creed can justify violence“   “No creed can justify violence, and still less can invoke its faith in order to perpetrate violence”  Rafael D’Aquí, the project section head with responsibility for Burkina Faso in the international Catholic pastoral charity ACN International, recently visited this African country [...]

Pope Francis urges United Nations to help in Venezuela crisis   Pope Francis was thinking about Venezuela throughout his visit to Colombia. As his plane took off for Bogota, Francis told journalists that they were going to fly over Venezuela and asked them “to pray so there can be dialogue, [...]

YEMEN Fr Tom has been released and is on his way home to India    Fr Tom Uzhunnalil has finally been set free after more than 18 months of speculation and uncertainty following his abduction by militants in Yemen. Many reports claimed that IS abducted  Fr. Tom but the rumors [...]