Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has announced a major emergency aid package for Haiti, following the devastating earthquake that struck the country on Saturday (14th August). ACN, which has been talking with the Haitian Church about the response to the crisis, approved aid amounting to half a million [...]
A Christian couple who spent seven years on death row in Pakistan on false blasphemy charges has been granted asylum in a European country. According to human rights organization ADF International, Shagufta Kausar and Shafqat Emmanuel arrived in Europe last week after their death sentence was overturned by the Lahore [...]
Reports have emerged of how a Christian man in Mozambique risked his life by refusing to convert to Islam after extremists seized him and held him captive in the bush. Speaking to Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Father Kwiriwi Fonseca, of Pemba diocese, said the man, who cannot [...]
Pope Francis said has expressed sorrow at the news of the Aug. 9 murder of French priest Fr. Olivier Maire, as he extended his condolences to the priest’s family, community, and all Catholics in France. During his general audience today, Aug. 11, the pope said he learned of the murder [...]
The reaction by governments around the world to the coronavirus healthcare crisis has had a profound effect on human rights, and not least on the right to freedom of religion and freedom of religious worship, prompting serious debate on the implications of the political decisions that were taken. In the [...]
The Sisters of Mercy of the Holy Cross in the Indian state of West Bengal are immensely grateful to our benefactors for having enabled them to purchase essential personal protective equipment against the coronavirus. The sisters are working on the front line against the disease and the 22,862 Euros given [...]
Fr. Pierluigi Maccalli who spent two years in captivity after his abduction in October 2018 by a jihadist group has revealed his experience to Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). During an interview with ACN, Father Pierluigi, accompanied by his brother, Father Walter Maccalli, also a priest, and Portuguese [...]
The YOUCAT is a catechism for young people and young adults based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church. The fundamental elements of the Catholic faith are summarised in a brief and easily comprehensible style. And the book, which is now available in 58 different languages, is made still more [...]
KOLAY GELSIN, LITERALLY “MAY IT COME EASILY,” IS A COMMON GREETING HEARD ON THE STREETS OF TURKEY. It is said to people carrying out hard work to express the wish that they may bear their burdens with greater ease and be relieved of their burden. Father Simon Härting, a German-born [...]
Exactly 12 months ago, Fr. Marwan Mouawad, 46, was celebrating mass for a small group of 10 people in a poor neighborhood of Beirut, when he felt the church moving above him. Suspecting an earthquake, he paused his chanting. The electricity cut. Seconds later, one of the strongest non-nuclear explosions [...]
