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, [...]
With Sri Lanka’s priests and Sisters struggling to survive, ACN has offered a vital lifeline so that they can continue their essential ministry during the country’s state of emergency. Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is providing vital support for priests and religious who are struggling during Sri Lanka’s [...]
“Let’s hurry to love people, they depart so quickly…” (Polish poet and priest, Father Jan Twardowski). Bishop Pavlo Honcharuk of Kharkiv, Ukraine, recently visited the Catholic parish in Zolochiv, near the frontline. During the visit, two parishioners asked to take a picture with him. A few days after, Bishop Honcharuk [...]
According to data compiled by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), at least 18 priests have been kidnapped in Nigeria since the beginning of 2022, five in the first week of July alone. Although most were released unharmed, three were killed. Faced with this situation, the Nigerian Diocesan Catholic [...]
