THE BISHOP OF MAMFE, CAMEROON, HAS EXPRESSED HIS GRATITUDE FOR THE RELEASE OF THE PRIESTS, LAYPEOPLE AND A WOMAN RELIGIOUS, but has repeated his condemnation of the attack on the church in which they were taken by rebels. “I am sincerely grateful to all those who joined us in this [...]
TWO MONTHS AGO, MARYAMU JOSEPH (16) ESCAPED FROM BOKO HARAM after being held for nine years. Along with 21 others, she was abducted in 2014 at the age of seven when the terror group attacked her community of Bazza and took her to a camp. Two of her siblings were [...]
More than 840,000 children including 3700 from Malta/Gozo responded to Pope Francis’ appeal for children to join the “One million children praying the Rosary” initiative, promoted by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), which took place October 18. St. Theresa School Kercem, Gozo This data only includes [...]
Hungary's State Secretary for the Aid of Persecuted Christians and the Hungary Helps Program, Tristan Azbej, says Hungary has supported hundreds of thousands of persecuted Christians worldwide. He spoke after briefing representatives of the Visegrád Group: Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. The state secretary told the conference in [...]
Bishop Wilfred Chikpa Anagbe, of the Diocese of Makurdi, spoke at an event in the European Parliament saying that Christians in Nigeria need help, “before it becomes too late”. The bishop of Makurdi, in Nigeria, has denounced the lack of solidarity and practical aid for persecuted Christians in his country, [...]
In 2014, hundreds of Christian families had to flee Mosul and the cities of the Nineveh Plains in northern Iraq. They had abandoned their homes and all their belongings in the face of the advance of the Islamic State (IS) militias, they finally found refuge in Baghdad in and around [...]
The government has progressively restricted the social and charitable activities of the Church Mons. Fikremariam Hagos, Bishop of Segheneity , in southern Eritrea, has been detained by the police at the Asmara airport when he entered the country after a trip to Europe. The Eritrean government has not made official statements, but [...]
“The Church has become a victim of the violence”, says Sister Marcela Catozza, a missionary in Haiti. The Italian nun claims that the situation has taken a turn for the worse since June, with churches and institutions coming under attack. The small Caribbean state of Haiti is going through a [...]
With the war entering its eighth month, pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) spoke to Vasylij Tuchapets, Greek Catholic Bishop of Kharkiv, during a visit to the headquarters of the charity, about the importance of remaining with the people, how the war has affected pastoral work, and [...]
A leading bishop in Mozambique has revealed that extremists disguised in military uniform gathered a crowd of people together, before separating the Christians and slitting their throats one-by-one. Speaking to Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Bishop Alberto Vera Aréjula of Nacala revealed the details of the gruesome attack [...]
