On the International Day to Commemorate the Victims of Acts of Violence based on Religion or Beliefs, ACN, that supports persecuted and suffering Christians in over 140 countries, highlights a number of important issues to remember on this occasion: Lack of international response to the myriad Islamic terrorist cells in [...]
As relations between the Nicaraguan Church and the Sandinista regime become increasingly strained, another priest has been reportedly arrested by the police. Fr Oscar Danilo Benavidez Tinoco, from the Diocese of Siuna, is been held in a detention centre in Managua, though the reason for his arrest remains unknown. According [...]
Fresh terrorist attacks could pose the gravest danger Nigeria’s capital has ever seen, according to a leading Archbishop in the country. Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama of Abuja told Aid to the Church in Need (ACN): “Some years ago, there were bomb attacks. But there has never been a really serious threat, [...]
The Catholic Church in Nicaragua has continued to suffer persecution from President Daniel Ortega’s Sandinista Government. The latest was a recent case where police stopped a Priest from celebrating Mass. The incident took place on August 4, when Bishop Rolando Alvarez of Matagalpa, along with six priests and six lay [...]
“My sister and I had been asking for new clothes, but my parents couldn’t afford it. My mother only worked in two houses. We wanted to support our parents,” 15-year-old Saba told Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). A month after waiting for the promised dress on Easter, Saba [...]
The very same year Bishop Oliver Doeme took charge of the Diocese of Maiduguri, in the northeast of Nigeria, a small Muslim sect transformed itself into what would become a savage terrorist group, ravaging peaceful communities and kidnapping hundreds of teenage girls. For years he watched as Boko Haram overran [...]
Sixty-year-old Georgette should be looking forward to a comfortable retirement. Instead, she is doing a job that does not even allow her to cover rent and surviving on charity. Two years after the Beirut Port Blast, her situation is far from unique. Thanks to Church projects, funded by ACN, things [...]
Sixth anniversary of the murder of the French priest at the hand of jihadists. “The martyrdom of Fr Jacques Hamel has been proven”, says Fr Paul Vigouroux, postulator for the priest’s cause of beatification, speaking to pontifical charity Aid to the Church in Need, on the sixth anniversary of his [...]
Following the murder of over twenty people in an attack in Bourasso, in the northeast of Burkina Faso, Aid to the Church in Need is calling attention to a severe deterioration of the situation in the Diocese of FadaN’Gourma, in the eastern part of the west-African country, over the past [...]
During a recent visit to the headquarters of the international charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Cardinal Désiré Tsarahazana, Archbishop of Toamasina, Madagascar, insisted on the need to hold on to hope, so as to overcome evil. In this interview with ACN the Cardinal speaks of how corruption, [...]
