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 [...]
Fr Isaac Achi was reportedly burned by unknown gunmen, and his assistant Fr Colins Omeh sustained gunshot wounds. Reports also emerged of the kidnapping of another priest in Southern Nigeria this Sunday. A parish residence was attacked this Sunday, January 15, in Niger State, Nigeria, resulting in the death of [...]
The new Sateré language edition of ACN’s Child Bible is more than an instrument for deepening the faith, it also helps preserve the indigenous people’s language and culture. Members of the Amazonian Sateré-Mawé community can now read the Bible in their own language, after pontifical charity Aid to the Church [...]
Jacques Mourad lived as a prisoner of the Islamic State for five months before managing to escape to freedom. Now he has been appointed Syriac Catholic Archbishop of Homs. “Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) rejoices at this decision. During his ordeal Fr Jacques remained a solid example of [...]
Burkina Faso has seen an unprecedented increase in terrorism since 2015 and on 2 January a priest was murdered in the northwest of the country. Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) spoke to Bishop Laurent Dabiré of Dori, President of the Bishops’ Conference of Burkina Faso and Niger, on [...]
During his traditional speech to diplomats, Francis warned of increasing intolerance towards Christians even in countries where they are not a minority Pope Francis says that there can be no peace without religious freedom, and decried the fact that in many Christian majority countries this universal right is also under [...]
A recent attack on two Christian villages in northern Mozambique left two people dead and four injured and caused unrest among the local population, with many people leaving their homes in search of safety. The attack took place on 30 December and has been claimed by the Mozambican branch of [...]
In his homily during the Mass for the Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God, Pope Francis invites the faithful to rediscover “the enthusiasm of going” and “the wonder of seeing,” as the shepherds did, “the secret that can make this world truly new.” Mary’s Motherhood is a “fundamental datum [...]
