The support package for 464 families includes immediate relief items, renovation of homes and the purchase of vehicles for those whose livelihoods were destroyed in the attacks. Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) will be providing emergency support to the victims of anti-Christian attacks that took place in Jaranwala, [...]
The apostolic prelature of Corocoro lies high in the Andes in one of the poorest regions of Bolivia, where 80% of the population live in extreme poverty. Even such things as access to clean drinking water and adequate nutrition are by no means guaranteed, to say nothing of the need [...]
When Basma Adwar had the privilege of meeting with the Pope last June, all she could do was thank him for the scholarship that bears his name and that, thanks to ACN, has allowed her to go to university. Basma Adwar’s family moved from Baghdad to Zakho, in Iraqi Kurdistan, [...]
A bishop from Chad has highlighted the desperate plight of more than 100,000 refugees flooding into his region of the country from neighbouring war-torn Sudan. Speaking on a visit to the international project headquarters of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Bishop Philippe Abbo Chen of Mongo, eastern Chad, [...]
In the largest Muslim country in the world there is a congregation with 53 novices. On Flores Island, where prayers can still be heard, there is a congregation that is particularly successful. Every year, around two dozen girls join the community of the Daughters of Our Lady, Queen of the Holy [...]
Unidentified assailants set fire to a parish rectory in Nigeria's Kafanchan Diocese, killing a seminarian in the attack at St. Raphael's parish rectory in Fadan Kamantan. Bishop Julius Yakubu Kundi, of the Diocese of Kafanchan, Nigeria, has announced that Na'aman Danlami, a 25-year-old seminarian, died in an an attack at St. Raphael's [...]
The leader of the Catholic Church in Kyrgyzstan was in Mongolia, where Pope Francis said that the littleness of the local churches is not a limitation, but a resource for the universal Church. The Jesuit Fr Anthony Corcoran is the Apostolic Administrator for the few hundred Catholics who live in [...]
ACN International denounces the latest attack on the Catholic Church in Nigeria, in which a seminarian was burned to death in the diocese of Kafanchan, as well as the kidnapping of another seminarian in southern Kaduna. The terrible incident took place last night, around 8 pm, Thursday 7 September, when [...]
A priest and a seminarian who had been kidnapped in the diocese of Minna, in Nigeria, were released on Wednesday, 23 August, after three weeks in captivity. According to a statement released by the Missionaries of Africa (also known as the White Fathers), “they are both fine, alive and healthy, [...]
From 1 to 4 September, Pope Francis visited Mongolia, the very small, but growing Catholic community and met with other religious leaders in the country. María Lozano, press officer for ACN International, was in the Asian country to accompany the Pope’s visit, and brings you ten interesting details about the [...]
