During a visit to the headquarters of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Bishop Miguel Angel Nguema Bee of Ebibeyin recounted the moving story of the first catechist to be martyred in Equatorial Guinea, José Si Esono, who the local Church would like to see beatified. The bishop also [...]

Haitian Church leaders have asked for “incessant prayers” for the release of six religious Sisters who were abducted in Haiti. Port-au-Prince Archdiocese and the Haitian Conference of Religious condemned the “heinous” act and implored the perpetrators “in the name of God” to release the captives in a joint statement. The [...]

Iraqi Christian parents have expressed great joy about the opening of a Catholic kindergarten in Erbil, kindling fresh hopes for the survival of the Church in a country where the faithful have endured so much suffering. The new playschool was created as an extension to Mar Qardakh School in northern [...]

Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) provides health support to elderly religious sisters in northeast Brazil. Despite their age, the sisters remain very active in their communities, and continue to pray for their benefactors. Being a consecrated religious is a lifelong commitment, and the Sisters of the Sacred Heart [...]

Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has announced an increased aid package for the approximately 1,000 Christians remaining in Gaza, as well as Christian families in the West Bank and East Jerusalem who have been impacted by the ongoing Gaza conflict, through the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem. The majority [...]

A ninety-seven-year-old artist in Portugal is making recycled religious artwork from material she salvages to help suffering Christians. Maria Antónia Cabral creates traditional Portuguese devotional images of saints from materials that would otherwise be sent to landfill and is giving the money from selling her art to Aid to the [...]

In a collective statement on the situation in war-torn Sudan, the country's Catholic Bishops appeal to the international community to intensify efforts to end the violence in the country. They also express concern that the protracted fighting may aim to block solidarity between the people of Sudan. The Catholic Bishops [...]

During the Angelus on the occasion of the feast of St. Stephen — the first Christian martyr — Pope Francis renewed his call for peace and brought attention to the persecution that Christians are facing around the world. “Today, 2,000 years later, unfortunately we see that the persecution continues: There [...]

Church leaders have confirmed the killing of more than 160 people in Nigeria’s Middle Belt over Christmas, attacks which they say saw the “deliberate targeting” of Christians. The killing spree began on 23rd December and went on for four days, with 26 villages in Plateau State coming under fire. Speaking [...]