Pakistan, July 2019Bishop Samson Shukardin, OFM of the diocese Hydarabad Bishop Samson Shukardin of Hyderabad cannot shake the images from his visit to the flood-affected Catholic village of Mariamnagar, in southern Sindh province, earlier this month (beginning of September). “Instead of protecting themselves, the locals had placed mosquito [...]

For many Christians in Lebanon technical schools provide opportunities for future employment, and a stable environment for local families. Faced with one of the worst financial crises the world has ever seen, the Foyer de La Providence, in Sidon, has done everything it can to stay afloat and be true [...]

30th September is the feast of Saint Jerome, doctor of the Church and translator of the Bible into Latin. To mark the feast, ACN spoke to Father Emmanuel Asi, executive director of the Catholic Bible Commission of Pakistan, about the scriptures and the situation of Christians in the country. What [...]

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 [...]