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 [...]
Stradch is a small village of 3,000 people, located around 25 kilometres from Lviv, in Ukraine. The village is home to a Marianshrine and is also where Fr Mykola Konrad and lay catechist Volodymyr Pryjma were martyred. Last October, the Archbishop of Lviv consecrated the newly built Pilgrim House. From [...]
The "Back to School" programme launched by ACN will help assure the continuity of the Christian presence in Lebanon and the coexistence between the different religions The international foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has just launched its "Back to school" aid programme in Lebanon, which will benefit [...]
With over a thousand dead, and many more in great need, the Church has mobilised to help victims of flooding in Pakistan. Two bishops contacted ACN to explain the situation, and the foundation has committed to helping with projects in Hyderabad and Karachi, two of the dioceses in Sindh province, [...]
During a visit to the international headquarters of ACN, in Germany, Father Honoré Quedraogo, a priest from the diocese of Tenkodogo, in east-central Burkina Faso, spoke of the situation his country is currently facing. Officially, 40% of the country is uncontrolled by the State, but in the remaining 60% there [...]
In light of the situation facing the Church in Nicaragua the international Catholic pastoral charity and pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN International) wishes to express its fraternity, friendship and communion in regard to the sad and painful situation suffered by the clergy and the whole Church [...]
Kharkiv is a huge city, with a population of 1.7 million before the war, and now only about 20 km from the front line. War has a dramatic effect on people’s lives, and as this conflict completes its sixth month, the scale of the loss and destruction in Ukraine continues to [...]
During a visit to the headquarters of pontifical charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Bishop Martin Mtumbuka, of the Diocese of Karonga, in Malawi, highlights the vibrancy of the African Church, and speaks about both the success stories and the struggles of the young diocese. Located in the [...]
ALEPPO, besieged and destroyed in Syria’s war, is calm now, but 11 years of war and the accompanying economic sanctions have left the city impoverished. “We don’t have any direct violence, armed groups or bombardments on or around the city since the end of 2017,” Chaldean Catholic Bishop Antoine Audo [...]
