All over Ukraine, stories are emerging of Priests, Sisters and Lay people, standing strong, holding on to faith and expressing courage and hope in the face of the ongoing war in Ukraine. These testimonies are being shared first hand by ACN's project partners on the ground in Ukraine. Irina and [...]
Since 2017, more than 1,090 jihadist attacks and armed conflict between rebels and government troops have claimed thousands of lives, devastated entire regions and forced some 850,000 people to flee. Several churches have been completely destroyed and several parishes in the Diocese of Pemba are left without Priests. Most priests [...]
Kharkiv is one of the Ukrainian cities currently most under fire. On Tuesday a missile struck the house of the Roman Catholic bishop, Pavlo Honcharuk, tearing a hole in the roof, although no-one was injured. “So now we too have received one of these ‘presents’,” says the bishop in a [...]
Leading clergy in Ukraine have given poignant first-hand accounts of ministering to people terrified for their lives as their country is invaded in a deadly show of firepower. In testimonies to Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Bishops and priests have described the panic that spread after the sudden [...]
Women religious in Ukraine are facing Russia’s full-scale invasion of that nation with determined faith and a commitment to service. “We understand that this is our new mission, to welcome the refugees,” said Basilian Sister Lucia Murashko, whose convent, the monastery of SS. Peter and Paul in Zaporizhzhia, is located [...]
Heart-breaking news emerged from Ukraine in recent days. Official government figures point to thousands of dead, among them 380 civilians. More than 600,000 people have sought refuge in neighbouring countries. Fighting has been most intense in the capital Kyiv and in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second most populous city. The project director [...]
Many orders, representing hundreds of male and female religious, have already sent messages of support to ACN, assuring it of their prayers and unity with Pope Francis’ request. The most touching words come from those who have lived through the horrors of war themselves. Aid to the Church in Need [...]
Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is commiting immediate emergency help to support the work of the Church in Ukraine. “What we all wanted to avoid has happened: Ukraine is in a state of war. ACN has supported the Church in Ukraine during the past and it will not [...]
The Catholic Church in Ukraine continues to place its hopes in peace talks and diplomatic solutions for the current crisis. This was the message relayed by the Latin Catholic Metropolitan Archbishop Mieczyslaw Mokrzycki, of Lviv, during a visit to Aid to the Church in Need (ACN International) in Königstein, Germany, [...]
She was kidnapped on Saturday, the 19th, precisely 1461 days ago. Young Leah Sharibu was just 14 years old when she was taken by gunmen belonging to the terrorist group Boko Haram from her school in Dapchi, northeast Nigeria. In that attack in February 2018, terrorists took 110 girls with [...]
