With the deadline to evacuate northern Gaza approaching, religious Sisters announced that they were staying with those who are unable to leave. The Sisters of the Rosary – who have called for renewed prayers for peace – told Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) that they would be remaining [...]
“Many of our Latin American benefactors are not wealthy, but they realise there are Christians whose situation is worse than theirs” says Regina Lynch, the executive president of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) who has recently returned from an enlightening tour of ACN's Latin American national offices, which [...]
This year the seminary of the Priestly Fraternity of the Servants of the Holy Spirit in La-Ceja Antioquia in northwest Colombia celebrated its 40th anniversary. Those four decades have seen 66 priests ordained from the community and now serving in 17 Colombian dioceses, as well as in six other countries [...]
Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has added its voice to calls by the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem for peace in the Holy land following two days of atrocities and fierce fighting. Regina Lynch, International Executive President of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN),on Monday [...]
Governments in the West must intervene to demand justice be done for the victims of the “worst incident of persecution against Christians” in Pakistan – according to a priest who was on the scene when the atrocity took place. Father Abid Tanveer, Vicar general of the Diocese of Faisalabad, said [...]
In a society scarred by Communism, with many families not practicing the faith, ACN Malta is promoting the teaching of the Catholic faith and Christian values to children, giving them hope, and building them up as little evangelists. ACN Malta is partnering with the Society of Christian Doctrine in the [...]
A bishop in Ukraine has decried the destruction of thousands of euros worth of humanitarian aid by a drone strike on Lviv as an attack on the most vulnerable. Bishop Edward Kawa, Auxiliary Bishop of Lviv, told Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) that the drone strike on the [...]
Repairs to schools, churches, monasteries, a kindergarten and a youth centre are to go ahead after ACN agreed significant additional aid for families made homeless by February’s deadly earthquakes in Syria. ACN announced on 2nd October that it is providing a second tranche of aid to help vital Church-run facilities [...]
The international foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) invites all parishes, nurseries, schools and families to take part in another yearly edition of “One million children praying the Rosary”, on 18 October. “The Rosary is highly valued by God, and praying it is more necessary than ever, for [...]
Patriarch Youssef Absi, the leader of the Melkite Catholic Church, thanks ACN for its support of Christians in Lebanon and Syria and pointed out that Christians in the Middle East are leaving their ancestral homelands, despite their churches’ encouragement to stay. The Patriarch has led the Melkite Catholic Church for [...]
