In the aftermath of the fire that gutted a church in Cameroon, Bishop Aloysius Fondong of the Diocese of Mamfé entered the ruins to retrieve the Blessed Sacrament and found the sacred Hosts and the ciborium containing them to be intact. On the night of Sept. 16, armed men set [...]

“I join in the appeal of the bishops of Cameroon for the liberation of some people kidnapped in the diocese of Mamfe, including five priests and a religious sister,” the pope said on Sept. 25. Speaking in his Angelus address at the end of a Mass in the southern Italian [...]

The Bishop of Mamfe asks for prayers for the release of nine kidnapped religious and laypeople. The whereabouts of nine people who were kidnapped on the afternoon of Friday 16 September, in Nchang, in the Diocese of Mamfe, located in southwestern Cameroon remains unknown. Five priests, one nun and three [...]

Children around the world are being asked to pray for peace in countries devastated by war, violence or crippling poverty. The call comes as part of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN)’s “A Million Children Praying the Rosary” initiative, which asks young people in parishes, kindergartens, schools and families [...]

Pakistan Church leaders have said the government is doing very little in response to the floods crisis and have renewed their urgent appeals to help the millions affected by the catastrophe. The bishops went on to thank charities including Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) which earlier this month [...]

PATRIARCH BECHARA BOUTROS RAI COMPARED LEBANON TO A SICK PERSON who refuses treatment and so continues to get worse. Action is required, he insists, if the country is to continue to fulfil its prophetic role in the Middle East. The Patriarch of the Maronite Church decried political stalemates which prevent [...]

Pope Francis will be participating in the seventh edition of the Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions that was to be held Sept. 14-15 in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. According to Bishop José Luis Mumbiela Sierra, of the Diocese of the Holy Trinity, in Almaty, this event traces its roots [...]

On the night of Tuesday 6 September an Italian religious sister, aged 83, was brutally murdered in an armed attack on the Chipene mission in the diocese of Nacala. ACN International deplores the fact that the religious dimension is becoming increasingly prominent in the attacks of the Islamist terrorists Sister [...]

Thursday 15 September, Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, will mark the end of the “Console your People” initiative, to beg for peace in Syria and for the protection of all Christians in that country, which was promoted by pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). The idea [...]