This year marks a significant milestone for Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) Malta as the Charity clocks 10 years of its establishment in Malta. 13th May 2014 marked the start of ACN in Malta and It has been ten years of restoring hope and rebuilding the lives of [...]
An Irish missionary tells ACN about the love that the Peruvian people have for Our Lady and how Protestant sects take advantage of the shortage of priests in the country to aggressively convince Catholics to leave the Church. “Oh Father, thanks for visiting. I need to speak to you.” These [...]
The quick thinking of a headteacher helped save the lives of sleeping students after armed extremists stormed a secondary school in Nigeria’s Middle Belt on Tuesday (7th May) night. Father Emmanuel Ogwuche, principal at Father Angus Frazer Memorial High School in Makurdi, promptly switched off all the lights in the building [...]
A jihadist captive turned 21 yesterday (14th May), six years after being abducted from her school in Nigeria and held hostage for refusing to renounce her Christian faith. On her birthday, a pastor close to Leah Sharibu’s family called on the Nigerian government and the international community to end their [...]
Pope Francis has urged the faithful to pray the Rosary, especially during this month of May, as he entrusts to the Blessed Virgin Mary the cause of peace for the wars in the Holy Land, Ukraine, and Myanmar. Pope Francis entrusted to the Blessed Mother people suffering from wars and [...]
A young priest speaks of the challenges and joys in bringing the sacraments to the most isolated communities in the Colombian Amazon. Father Jonathas Fernandes is only 33, but he already has an impressive resume as a missionary. He was only a child, in his native Brazil, when he felt [...]
Fifteen Catholic families are able to return to the Christian quarter of a suburb of Damascus thanks to the reconstruction of their homes with the help of ACN. This will secure the Christian presence in the place where, according to one tradition, the conversion of the Apostle Paul occurred. An [...]
Human rights violations are widespread in Burundi, a small country which borders the much larger Democratic Republic of the Congo. For years, the country has been largely isolated from the outside world. Recently, the Burundian bishops drew attention to the country's plight, which is hardly noticed by the global public. [...]
Priests and religious Sisters in Lebanon have explained how the solar panels donated by ACN have enabled them to survive soaring energy costs. Basic necessities like electricity are prohibitively expensive in Lebanon and Syria because of an ongoing economic crisis, making renewable energy systems crucial, according to the local Church. [...]
A brave Catholic seminarian who spent his pastoral placement ministering in India’s remote, cobra-infested jungle will be ordained a priest next week. Deacon Santosh Kumar has been ministering in the parish Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Kalpahad, North Andaman, where parishioners regularly walk 6 km (3 miles) through dangerous forests [...]
