Inspired by the One Million Children Praying the Rosary campaign, a prayer group of ACN benefactors made and donated thousands of colourful decade rosaries for our staff to take as small gifts to children on their project visits. Given the COVID pandemic, travel has been severely restricted leaving the box [...]
Following a mob attack by right-wing extremists on a Catholic school, a leading cleric has said that Indian Christians will never be safe under Prime Minister Modi’s government. Speaking to Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) about the assault carried out by about 500 people on St Joseph school [...]
Hardly noticed by the world, the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan escalated into war in Nagorno-Karabakh on 27 September 2020. A ceasefire between the two countries was negotiated on 9 November 2020. With countless war crimes, more than 4,000 fallen Armenian soldiers – almost an entire generation of young men [...]
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 [...]
