A Catholic archbishop in north-east India, who has seen his diocese at the centre of a wave of deadly attacks, has issued an urgent appeal for prayers “to transform the minds of the people who are led by hatred and religious violence”. In a letter to Aid to the Church [...]
Religious intolerance in the Holy Land is on the rise and the desecration of churches is becoming more common – but Church leaders are determined to launch large-scale initiatives to help young people discover the riches of their faith. Youth formation in the Parish of St. Catherine in Bethlehem, [...]
A religious Sister in Ghana has recounted how she has rescued more than 130 children from being murdered by those who believe they are “evil”. Sister Stan Therese Mumuni of the Marian Sisters of Eucharistic Love founded a home in Yendi Diocese, northern Ghana for children with mental and physical [...]
Almost nine years after hundreds of thousands of Christians were forced to flee from their homes due to the occupation of their lands by ISIS, efforts continue to rebuild lives and infrastructure. ACN has just helped complete one of these projects in the city of Dohuk. On 6 August 2014, [...]
Tens of thousands of young people took part in a variety of ACN initiatives during World Youth Day in Lisbon (WYD). The pontifical charity ensured that persecuted Christians from around the world were not forgotten, reminding those present of these brothers and sisters who are, so often, true Heroes of [...]
Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is providing more than 40,000 Bibles to help the faithful in Mozambique grow in their knowledge and love of God. The Charity is backing an initiative that will see 43,350 copies of the scripture distributed to ordinary Christians at peppercorn rates. Father Sebin Mathew [...]
Just over 60 young men are currently undergoing formation in the propaedeutic Abbot Kaumo seminary of Kasongo, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They gather there to pray, attend classes, cook, work in the seminary’s vegetable garden and practice sports. The seminary has great economic needs, which affect the [...]
With peace remaining “fragile” in Burundi and memories of past genocides still vivid, more needs to be done to guarantee human rights, according to ACN's head of projects for francophone countries in Central Africa. There have been three genocides and other violent conflicts between the Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups [...]
Father Jacques Mourad, a Syro-Catholic monk, was held captive by the Islamic State jihadists in 2015 for about five long months, a period of violence, humiliation, mockery, psychological and physical torture, and in which he was threatened with death, having arrived standing before a firing squad. He survived it all, trusting [...]
Many of the Christians who lived in Sudan have fled the country or at least escaped the cities that are engulfed in violence, says a Spanish Comboni missionary who has worked for years in Sudan, in an interview with the pontifical charity Aid to the Church in Need, (ACN). Fr [...]
