ACN is helping to rebuild the sisters’ convent on the ninth floor of the hospital building. “Oh my God!” - exclaims Sister Nicolas Akiki, the director of the hospital. This is the first time she has been into this part of the hospital since it was devastated by the explosion [...]
On 11th November, the marriage of Christian girl Arzoo Raja was annulled, after she was abducted, forced to convert to Islam and marry her abductor. The court cancelled her marriage to 44-year-old Muslim man Ali Azhar on the basis of the Sindh Child Marriage Restraint Act 2013, under which a [...]
ACN supports the medical care for the Sisters of the congregation of the Daughters of the Cross affected by COVID-19 while carrying out their pastoral work in Rourkela, in India. A series of events unraveled the community of the Daughters of the Cross. It started when Sr. Flora was diagnosed [...]
With major Hindu nationalist networks announcing plans to launch a campaign against religious conversions—especially in the tribal areas of India—Catholic Church leaders say such a campaign has been going on for a long time and that the move is aimed at dividing people along religious lines for political gains. The [...]
21 fatalities, including catechist Richard Kisusi, after the last attack in the Beni region In a message to the international Catholic pastoral charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Father José Arieira de Carvalho, a Portuguese Comboni priest who has been living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo [...]
New massacres by jihadists – number of refugees is growing daily. Cabo Delgado, the northernmost province of Mozambique, has been going through a living hell ever since October 2017. In a series of over 600 brutal attacks in nine separate districts of this northern region by armed insurgents, who claim [...]
“Our Hiroshima”, is how one survivor describes the tragic explosion of 4 August in which she lost her house and home. “It was worse than a war, because it happened so suddenly. All the hard work of years was destroyed in just seven seconds”, says this woman from the devastated [...]
The case of Arzoo Raja, the 13-year-old Christian girl kidnapped from her family home in the Santo António neighborhood of Karachi, Pakistan on 13 October has taken a bright turn as the Sindh Court on November 2, ordered the police to place the young woman in custody [at the women's [...]
Sierra Leone has a long story of constant suffering, from bloody civil war and massive poverty, to the Ebola epidemic of 2014 and a string of natural disasters. Today, thanks to ACN’s benefactors, a small ray of light and hope exists. In the Archdiocese of Freetown, the capital of Sierra [...]
The international head of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has expressed horror at the killing of three people just before the start of Mass in France – and called on world leaders to condemn the attack. In a statement made on Thursday, 29th October, Dr Thomas Heine-Geldern, international executive [...]
