The announcement that the Holy Father is considering a visit to South Sudan, to take place in February next year, was received “with much joy” by the local Catholic community, says sister Beta Almendra, a missionary in Wau, the second most populous city in this African country. This joy is [...]

Before the civil war, Syria had a vibrant and stable Christian community, but 12 years of conflict and economic crisis forced many to flee. Those who remained have faced hardship and rising levels of poverty. In the first initiative of its kind, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has [...]

Janada Marcus (22) and her family had already escaped two attacks by Boko Haram unscathed, once abandoning their home in Baga Local Government Area in Nigeria’s Lake Chad region and a second time fleeing their new home in Askira Uba, in southern Borno State, where their house was burned down, [...]

The superior general of the Congregation of the Albertine Brothers, Brother Franciszek Grzelka of Poland, recently visited his fellow brothers and brought them a delivery of relief supplies. The brothers run a soup kitchen and bakery as well as a shelter for homeless men in the southern Ukrainian city of [...]

A ceasefire deal in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region has raised cautious hope among millions of people impacted by the bloody two-year conflict that their anguish could be coming to an end. Many civilians are also reflecting on the terrible losses they suffered, and look to promised aid to rebuild their [...]

On the final day of Pope Francis' Apostolic Journey to Bahrain, the Pope encouraged the nation's Catholics to joyously bring God's joy to the Gulf nation's diverse flock, and made appeals for peace in Ethiopia and Ukraine. “Preserve and deepen your Christian joy, spreading it to all around you, and [...]

2022 was a year of celebrations for the Catholic Church in Bulgaria, with the 20th anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s visit to the country, and the 70th anniversary of the murder of four Bulgarian martyrs, three Assumptionist priests and one Passionist Bishop by the Communist regime. Vatican envoy Cardinal [...]

Bishop Paul Hinder, leader of the Church in Northern Arabia, says that the Pope will be met by a festive Catholic community composed mostly of hardworking migrants, when he travels to Bahrain next week. Pope Francis is travelling to Bahrain from 3-6 November to be with the local Christian population, [...]

At the heart of ACN’s mission is ensuring continuous support for missionaries and the faithful in different parts of the world where the Church is poor, persecuted, suffering or in pastoral need. One of the most important and effective ways this has been achieved through the years has been through [...]