Aid to the Church in Need is helping the local Church serve new and growing communities of people who are moving from rural to urban areas, often in poor conditions. Millions of people continue to flock from rural areas in the remote Amazon region of Brazil to larger cities, hoping [...]
An armed gang attacked a seminary in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince on Easter Monday (1st April), forcing staff to hide for six hours while the premises were ransacked. The gunmen destroyed or stole anything they could find at the Minor Seminary of Saint-Martial – run by the Congregation of the Holy [...]
An abbot in the Holy Land has criticised the international community, accusing people of treating the crisis “as if it was a simple game” rather than responding to the urgent needs of families trapped in a “terrible situation”. Abbot Nikodemus Schnabel of Jerusalem’s Benedictine Dormition Abbey told Aid to the [...]
Father Patrick Anthony Akpabio maintains a very close relationship with his country, from Spain, where he is studying, thanks to the training scholarship provided to him by generous benefactors of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). He gave a personal testimony of the situation in his country Nigeria, during [...]
The lives of Christians are under threat in 19 states in India, with the upcoming general elections raising further concerns about religious intolerance, according to a fresh report. A total of 161 incidents of anti-Christian discrimination and persecution have been reported in the first 75 days of 2024 in India, [...]
Pope Francis invites Christians to pray for the peace of Christ to renew nations torn by war and violence, as he prays the Regina Coeli on Easter Monday. He prayed that the gift of the Lord’s peace “may reach places where it is most needed, especially peoples exhausted by war, [...]
A Nigerian priest abducted and held for ransom by gunmen has given a harrowing account of the fear and humiliation he suffered in captivity. Speaking for the first time to Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Father Idahosa Amadasu said that he did not know whether he would survive [...]
The head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, delivered a powerful message of hope during the Mass celebrated for the persecuted Church at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York, organized by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) to raise awareness about the plight of Ukraine. Despite the tragedy faced [...]
An abbot has described the severe hardship of Christians in the Holy Land and urged the faithful around the world to reflect on the ongoing crisis this Easter. Abbot Nikodemus Schnabel of Jerusalem’s Dormition Abbey told Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) that those reading the Passion narratives during [...]
The ecumenical Christian broadcaster runs several channels, in three different languages, and reaches millions of people with its satellite transmissions. Christians are a small minority in the Gulf kingdom of Oman and almost all of them are foreign workers. So, when Kurt Johansen, the executive director of Christian broadcaster SAT-7, [...]
