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 [...]
The Catholics of the Archdiocese of Hanoi, northern Vietnam, have shown their surprise and deep rejection of the interruption of a mass by a group of government officials in a church in Vu Ban , in the province of Hoa Binh . The celebration was presided over by Bishop Joseph [...]
Pope Francis says his heart aches over the situation in Ukraine and announces a “Day of Fasting for Peace” on Ash Wednesday. During the General Audience on Wednesday, Pope Francis made a heartfelt appeal for peace in Ukraine, saying that the threat of war had caused “great pain in my [...]
A minor seminary in eastern Burkina Faso was attacked on the night of Feb. 10-11 by unidentified armed jihadists. Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) received the sad news that the minor seminary Saint Kisito de Bougui, in the diocese of Fada N’Gourma, East Burkina Faso, located about ten [...]
The scholarships will allow the Catholic University in Erbil to enrol more than four times as many Christian students as it has already. Iraq 07/03/2021Pope Francis's arriving at Franso Hariri Stadium in Erbil in his visit to Iraq 2021. Less than one year after the Pope’s historic visit [...]
The arrest of an outspoken young Catholic activist in Sri Lanka on Monday has drawn the condemnation of the country’s prominent Church leader, who expressed concern over the threat to the freedom of expression and the return of the dreaded ‘white van” culture in Sri Lanka. Improper arrest Shehan Malaka [...]
The leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church said on Friday that the Church is offering hope to the country’s beleaguered population amid a “very dangerous escalation” in the Ukraine crisis. Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk was speaking on Feb. 4 at an online event marking eight years of conflict in [...]
Out of necessity, Viktor breaks up his floor. Now that he and his wife have no steady work, due to the war in Ukraine, he and his sons Wasiliej and Kola proceed to saw the planks into pieces for the stove to heat the house. The boys both hope to [...]
