The Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia which covers Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia has an estimated 2.5 million Catholics who are mostly migrant workers from different nations and diverse cultures. To provide them with pastoral care the late Bishop Camillo Ballin started a bold project: the construction of the [...]
A bomb attack on the home of a Catholic shopkeeper in southern Iraq has been condemned by the head of the country’s largest Church, who has said that such attacks have driven an exodus of Christians. According to police, a motorcyclist threw a homemade explosive at the Chaldean Catholic shopkeeper’s [...]
For this Christmas, Aid to the Church in Need (Malta) is inviting families in Malta and Gozo to share their Christmas lunch with Christian families who lost everything when they fled their homes in Iraq and Syria to escape from Islamic State terrorists. No, ACN (Malta) is not actually asking [...]
A Nigerian priest who spent more than a month in captivity following his abduction earlier this year has called on the international community to come to the aid of the people of God in Nigeria’s Kaduna State amid heightened insecurity. Fr. Bako Francis Awesuh, 37, told Aid to the Church [...]
In the parish of Itoculo, in the diocese of Nacala, a reception process is in place for displaced people from Cabo Delgado, victims of the terrorism that has plagued this northern region of Mozambique since October 2017, bringing horror with more than 3,000 dead and 850,000 people displaced across the [...]
THE SECURITY SITUATION IN MALI HAS CONTINUED TO DETERIORATE in the last few months. The increased violence is above all affecting rural areas, with jihadists preventing farmers from harvesting their rice fields, burning the fields and attacking farmers when they attempt to harvest them. According to information obtained by Aid [...]
The Pope met privately with Prime Minister Najib Mikati for a 20-minute discussion at the Vatican on Nov. 25. “Lebanon is a country, a message, and also a promise to fight for,” Pope Francis said after the two exchanged gifts in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace, according to [...]
A former Anglican Bishop who is now a Catholic priest has made an urgent appeal to the UN to add forced conversions and forced marriages to the list of crimes committed against women. Father Michael Nazir-Ali was speaking at ACN UK's Red Wednesday event to launch the Charity's new report, [...]
Many of the victims of Boko Haram are still refugees in their own country and face daily trauma and anxiety. The danger has not passed, but the Church is bringing them consolation and hope. “I don’t want there to be any night-time. I wish it was always daytime. My nights [...]
The Diocese of Tete, Mozambique, on Saturday (November 20) began the diocesan phase of the beatification of two Jesuits for the cause of martyrdom. The two priests, the Portuguese Sílvio Alves Moreira, and the Mozambican João de Deus Kantedza were killed in a scenario of much violence on the night [...]
