Pope Francis wrapped up his visit to the East African nation on Sunday, 5th February. He ended the long-awaited and postponed journey with words of encouragement and hope for the impoverished and war-ravaged people, telling them never to forget that Jesus knows their pain and loves them. During his stay [...]
On the second day of his Apostolic Journey to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Pope Francis celebrated Mass for more than a million people at the Ndolo airport in Kinshasa, and expressed his joy to finally be among the Congolese people; "Esengo, joy: to see and encounter you is a [...]
Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is appealing for prayer amid alarming reports of two earthquakes killing more than 1,200 people and causing havoc in north-west Syria and south Turkey. ACN received reports from project partners in Syria about the devastation including news of former project partner Archbishop Emeritus [...]
Shocked and with their houses destroyed or damaged, many families have taken to sleeping in churches, convents, or even hospitals. Faced with yet another tragedy, Syrians ask for an end to sanctions. Syria has been at war for almost 12 years but for many people in Aleppo, and other cities [...]
“Sadly, my thought turns in particular to Myanmar, where the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption in the Village of Can Thar – one of the most ancient and important places of worship in the country – was burned and destroyed. I am close to the helpless civilian population [...]
The Catholic Church has more than 660,000 consecrated women who give their lives in the service of God, through prayer and dedication to others. Religious life is the beating heart of the Church and touches the lives of many throughout the world. Consecrated women, who embrace the Gospel and respond to [...]
ACN had recently cooperated with the parish in which church warden Diego Valencia was murdered Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) expresses its utmost condemnation of the attack on two Catholic Churches carried out Wednesday in Algeciras, Spain, motivated by jihadist religious extremism. ACN also expresses its solidarity and [...]
On 31 January Pope Francis will land in Kinshasa for a short visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He departs for Juba, South Sudan, on 3 February, and then back to Rome on 5February. It would take a miracle for peace to return to these nations, but that [...]
Only days after a terrorist attack on a Protestant church in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Marcelo Oliveira, a Combonian who works as a missionary in the African country, denounces the silence of the international community before these terrible acts of violence and highlights the fear [...]
“We must have faith to rebuild the village, and you are a sign of that faith”, Archbishop Thabet told dozens of Dominican sisters gathered for the inauguration of their new Convent of Saint Joseph. Batnaya used to be an important hub of Christian life in the Nineveh Plain, in northern [...]
