BRAZIL - 101-year-old woman receives First Communion 101 year old Doña Penha had seen and experienced many things but the latest event is probably one of the most significant in her long life. She received her First Communion during Mass at Our Lady of Mount Carmel nursing home in Rio de [...]
Rouen diocese starts Fr Hamel beatification process after Pope gives approval Dominique Lebrun, Archbishop of Rouen, announced that his diocese has officially begun an inquiry into the beatification of French priest Jacques Hamel, killed by Islamic extremists earlier this summer. The archbishop made the announcement after celebrating a special Mass [...]
KENYA - Latest terrorist attack intended to drive out Christians from the region A radio station run by the militant Islamist group al-Shabab is claiming that the latest terrorist attack on Christians in northeast Kenya was a deliberate attempt to drive them out of the region. The group claimed that its forces [...]
BANGLADESH - Family of Dhaka massacre victim help to build new church After the tragic attack in the Bangladeshi city of Dhaka last July, the family of one of the victims, Simona Monti who was pregnant when she was killed, gave a generous donation to help ACN build a new church. The [...]
Plan for autonomous homeland for persecuted Middle East Christians Christians driven from their ancestral homelands and persecuted by Islamist terrorists are calling for an autonomous region of their own to be established when peace is restored in the Middle East.Representatives of Iraq’s Christian, Yazidi and other religious minority communities have travelled [...]
HAITI - Pope offers prayer and support for hurricane victims Pope Francis has sent a telegram expressing his “deep sympathy in these painful circumstances” and assuring his prayer and spiritual closeness to all those affected by hurricane Matthew, particularly in Haiti.“Learning of the devastation wrought by hurricane Matthew, which has caused numerous [...]
NIGERIA - Kidnapped rector of Tansi seminary released Fr Emmanuel Dim, rector of the Tansi Major Seminary in Onitsha Anambra State, who was kidnapped has now been released. News of Fr Dim’s release was published in the evening edition of the 'Daily Trust' and also appeared on the website 'The Seismograph'. [...]
Plans for Christian repopulation of Nineveh post-Daesh (ISIS) “The Church is making a strong case to re-claim its place in a region where – until 2014 – there had been an unbroken Christian presence stretching back almost to the start of Christianity” – Neville Kyrke-Smith If Mosul is recaptured from Daesh [...]
SYRIA - More than one million children sign appeal for peace For the past few days, children at more than 2000 schools all over Syria have been drawing and writing messages to the political decision makers of the European Union and United Nations under the motto “Peace for Children”. More than one [...]
AZERBAIJAN – Highlights of Pope's visit Pope Francis visited Azerbaijan as the last stop of his three-day trip. This was the first time the Pope ever travelled to a majority Shi’ite nation. There are only about 600-700, Roman Catholics in Azerbaijan, only 200 of whom have citizenship.After landing at the Heydar [...]