The continuing severe economic and political crisis in Lebanon is causing great suffering to its people. According to UN figures, over 55% of the Lebanese population are living in poverty today – almost double the figure for the previous year. In less than a year the Lebanese currency has lost [...]
Alert, but relaxed – despite the danger of terrorism. This is the twofold attitude of Christians, as described by two Catholic priests after the most recent suicide attack on the Catholic cathedral of Makassar, the capital of the Indonesian province of South Sulawesi. They were speaking to Aid to the [...]
In the face of escalating violence in Myanmar, the pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need is calling upon Christians all over the world to pray. ACN Executive President Thomas Heine-Geldern explained, “Christians all over the world can only look towards Myanmar with the deepest concern. For this reason, [...]
As Easter approaches, Catholics who volunteer to provide security for churches around the country have begun participating in meetings at local police stations to protect parishioners. Feast day Masses have been a concern since the suicide bombing in the crowded Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park of Lahore on Easter 2016. The attack left [...]
A week after the attack on the town of Palma, in the far north of Cabo Delgado province, local parish priest Father António Chamboco expressed his sadness to Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) about the lack of information on the whereabouts of the faithful who made up his [...]
On 29th April, Aid to the Church in Need (Malta) will present the 15th edition of the "Religious Freedom in the World Report" (RFR). It is the only study conducted by a Catholic institution which analyses the observance and respect of this human right in all countries of the world [...]
ACN supports the refugee work of the Church with emergency aid “Almost weekly, new horror stories from Mozambique reach Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). Largely unnoticed by the international community, the country is suffering one humanitarian catastrophe after another,” explained Ulrich Kny, project officer for the country in [...]
An urgent call to end the block on vital aid to people in sanctions-crippled Syria has come from Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) amid fears that the country’s humanitarian crisis has reached an extreme. ACN is demanding changes to allow milk, groceries, warm clothes, medicine and pastoral help [...]
Pope Francis, during a special Mass to mark the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Christianity in the Philippines, has called on Filipinos to "persevere in the work of evangelization. "Pope Francis celebrated Mass in St. Peter's Basilica on Sunday with several representatives of the Filipino Church, including Cardinal Luis [...]
Fr. Johannes Kahn, S.J. has spent decades doing pastoral work in various countries in Eastern Europe, Central Asia as well as Russia. For almost ten years, he served a small Catholic minority in Kyrgyzstan. In February 2021, he spoke with Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). How did you [...]
