At the Angelus on Sunday, Pope Francis calls Christians to show solidarity with the people of Afghanistan, especially women and children, the victims of violent attacks in recent days. “I am following the situation in Afghanistan with great concern,” Pope Francis said on Sunday, adding, “I share in the suffering [...]
The Lebanese people are struggling to meet the basic needs of life. No gas, no electricity, no bread, no medicine, no security, no jobs, no future—and worst of all, people are fighting each other over a gallon of gas and loved ones are dying because of a lack of medicine. [...]
For many years now the Catholic faithful in the village of Noyanagar have been longing for a new chapel as the tiny mud chapel they themselves built almost 30 years ago has become far too small for the growing community. Besides, the walls have deep cracks and the rain is [...]
Situated in Brazil, on the shores of the Amazon River, some 160 miles from the city of Manaus, the prelature of Itacoatiara covers an area of some 23,000 square miles—almost twice the size of Belgium, but with a population of just 200,000 people. Earlier this year—as if the pandemic were [...]
Thousands of Catholics in Vietnam have experienced discrimination because of their faith in the country’s northwest province of Dien Bien, where communist forces defeated French troops in 1954. The province is home to three parishes and many mission stations serving some 3,000 Catholics, including Hmong people. They use their own [...]
A group of ethnic Christians in a remote, hill village in Bangladesh are living in fear after their church was recently attacked by presumed Buddhist mobs. The Bawm Tribal Baptist Church in Sundrapara village in Bangladesh’s Rangamati district of southeastern Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) was attacked and vandalized the nights [...]
Did you know Afghanistan is consecrated to Our Lady of Fatima? Fr. Giovanni Scales, Barnabite missionary and head of Mission Sui Iuris of Afghanistan, consecrated Afghanistan to Our Lady of Fatima on Oct. 13, 2017. He held a ceremony in the chapel of the Italian embassy with Catholic military, civilians, [...]
ACN has sent through the first tranche of urgent assistance to Haiti for families worst affected by the earthquake and the floods that followed. The Charity announced help for 45 struggling families in Jeremie, which has been devastated by mudslides and flash flooding from a tropical storm which landed just [...]
The 52nd International Eucharistic Congress will bring together Catholics from all over the world to deepen their understanding of the importance of the Eucharist and reflect on the mission of the Catholic Church to make God’s love present in the world of today. This year the Congress will be held [...]
19 August marks the 30th anniversary of the coup carried out by the Soviet military and Communist elites. The images went around the world: tanks rolling through Moscow’s inner city and taking up position in front of the parliament building. The Soviet news agency TASS reporting that President of the [...]
