The launch of ACN’s religious freedom in the world report 2021 revealed that religious freedom is under threat as never before and millions of believers continue to suffer more and more infringements of this basic human right. According to the report, over 5.2 billion people live in countries where religious [...]
The launch of Aid to the Church in Need - ACN’s latest Religious Freedom in the World Report held in Malta on April 29th, featured testimonies from project partners of ACN who have been tragically marked by the consequences of persecution and are living through a daily struggle together with [...]
This was the question posed by Chaldean Archbishop of Erbil, Msgr Bashar Warda during the launch of ACN’s Religious Freedom in the World Report by ACN Malta on April 29. The Archbishop was referring to Christians in the world today who are silent on the plight of their brothers and [...]
TO HELP THE CHURCH IN INDIA COPE WITH COVID-19, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has been supporting 27 projects to support priests and sisters in India. These consist of subsistence aid and Mass stipends to help them to continue their work during the pandemic. In early May, India [...]
Eight years after two bishops were kidnapped by Islamist extremists in Syria, the country’s Christians renewed prayers for their return. Members of the country’s Churches gathered for a service in Aleppo’s Syriac Orthodox Cathedral yesterday (Thursday 22nd April), to mark the anniversary of the abduction of Syriac Orthodox Bishop Youhanna Ibrahim [...]
Hundreds lie dead in Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region according to a secret inside account, which described priests beaten up, churches ransacked, and “rampant” hunger and fear gripping the populace who have no medicine left. Speaking to Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), the priest, unnamed for security reasons, described [...]
One year ago the Requiem Mass for Michael Nnadi began with Psalm 50 (51). He had been abducted, along with three other seminarians, from the Good Shepherd Seminary in Kaduna, central-northern Nigeria. That was in January 2020, shortly after the seminarians had returned to the seminary after celebrating Christmas with [...]
Following the abduction of the priests and religious in Haiti on Sunday, other Catholic clergy and religious are now fearful of becoming victims themselves. This was the comment made on Monday by Catholic Bishop Jean Désinord of the diocese of Hinche, some 70 miles (112 km) north of the capital [...]
The bishops of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have condemned rebel violence in the east of the country, highlighting attempted Islamisation, the forced conversion of prisoners and the deaths of thousands – including children. In a statement received by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), members of [...]
A Religious Sister in India was arrested after she was charged under provisions of a new law that criminalizes religious conversion. Sister Bhagya (who uses only her first name) of the Sisters of the Destitute congregation and principal of Sacred Heart Convent High School in Khajuraho in the Chhatarpur district, [...]
