In Uruguay the Catholic Church holds a far less influential position in society than in most other countries of Latin America. Only around 30% of the country‘s 3.5 million or so citizens declare themselves as Catholics, and religious faith and practice have been largely relegated to the private sphere. This, [...]
Two Priests were abducted in recent weeks in Haiti, a Country in the midst of a deep crisis. While one of them managed to escape after several days in the hands of his kidnappers, the other was released on March 23. “When will this spate of violence end?" asks Father [...]
A delegation from Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) recently travelled to West Bengal, in the Eastern part of India, to get to know the tiny and threatened Christian community up close. Project trip to West Bengal and Orissa (Odisha) Christians in India are a minority threatened [...]
Kinza is just 14 years old, lives in Lahore, one of Pakistan's main cities, and was kidnapped from her home on 19 September last year by five men. Raped, forced to convert to Islam and marry one of the kidnappers, the young girl was eventually released after her parents alerted [...]
Addressing the 52nd session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Archbishop Fortunatus Nwachukwu, Secretary of the Dicastery for Evangelisation, stressed the desire of the Holy See to bring to the attention of this Council "the plight of many individuals and communities who endure persecution because of their religious beliefs" [...]
Pius Tabat and Stephen Amos were kidnapped, along with two other seminarians, on 8 January, 2020. For several days they were kept in captivity and tortured while their captors tried to extract ransoms from their families. One of the members of the group, Michael Nnadi, was murdered for preaching the [...]
Pope Francis met on Wednesday 8th March with two young Nigerian girls who suffered horrendous violence at the hands of the Boko Haram terrorist group. Sixteen-year-old Maryamu Joseph, who escaped from the Boko Haram in July after being held against her will for nine years, greeted the pope with Janada [...]
Sister María del Carmen Galicia, a Mexican nun of the Comboni Missionary Sisters who worked in Sudan, an African country with a 97% Muslim population has highlighted the joy of Christians who live their faith in Sudan. In one of the Christian communities where she served, she said, “the Masses [...]
A priest caring for IDPs in Nigeria’s Middle Belt – where more than 2 million have been driven out of their homes – has called on President Buhari’s government to act to stem the escalating crisis. Father Remigius Ihyula told Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) that the national [...]
The Holy Father met last Wednesday with two young Nigerian Christians victims of jihadist persecution On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis’ pontificate, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) highlights the Holy Father’s closeness to Christians who suffer persecution around the world, as well as his [...]
