Life is by no means easy at present in the town of Dnipro– where air raid sirens and rocket attacks are an ever present reality. 200 people from the Latin Catholic parish of Saint Joseph have already fled the city. "They are waiting for the war to end. They are [...]
ACN to accompany Pope's visit to the country that forms a bridge between central and east Asia. Pope Francis will be in Mongolia from 1 to 4 September, to visit the very small but growing Catholic community and meet with other religious leaders in the country. The head of ACN [...]
The Philippines is an archipelago in Southeast Asia that consists of 7,641 islands, 2,000 of which are inhabited. The two largest islands, Luzon and Mindanao, account for two-thirds of the country’s total population and surface area. Luzon includes Manila, the capital; Mindanao is home to most Muslims in the Philippines [...]
Four decades after the last female congregation left Mozambique because of anti-Catholic hostility following independence from Portugal, a religious Sister shared their joy at returning to the African country. Sister Mirian dos Santos told Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) how moved she was by the warm welcome the [...]
Attacks against Christians in Burkina Faso are becoming more common and many people do not know if they will survive for another day, according to a local missionary. Many Christians have seen their loved ones “beheaded, raped or reduced to sexual slavery”, Father Pierre Rouamba, Prior General of the Missionary [...]
There were tears of sadness and fear in Pakistan on Sunday (20 th August) as a crowd of 700 attended Mass outside their burnt-out church following one of the country’s worst outbreaks of persecution in a generation. Amid tight security, Bishop Indrias Rehmat of Faisalabad presided at the Mass held [...]
After 21 Christians were killed and more than 10 critically injured by Fulani militants in Plateau State, Nigeria last week, local sources said similar attacks are becoming more common, and perpetrators are rarely held to account. The attack took place in the early hours of 10th August when armed Fulani [...]
Prayer, processions, adoration, catechism, but also plenty of fun was the order of the day as thousands of young Christians gathered in Syria and in Lebanon, physically distant, but emotionally united to the multitude who were in Lisbon with Pope Francis. Hundreds of thousands of young Catholics gathered in Lisbon [...]
Nearly 1,000 panic-stricken Christians in Pakistan spent last night in fields of sugar cane having narrowly escaped rampaging mobs who set about targeting their homes, destroying everything down to the last lightbulb. Reporting back from a visit to Jaranwala, near Faisalabad, where Islamists on Wednesday, 16th August carried out a [...]
Up to 15 church buildings have been attacked and hundreds of Christian homes destroyed after extremists went on the rampage in Pakistan. Christians from the Punjab town of Jaranwala, near Faisalabad, fled en masse as fanatics began throwing rocks and stones and setting fire to buildings. The incident follows an [...]
