REINHARD BACKES, head of Middle East projects for Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) reports on his fact-finding mission to Lebanon (Sept. 7-16, 2020). What is the situation in Lebanon? The Lebanese people, and especially the Christians because their quarters were most badly hit by the blast, are suffering [...]
FOR THE PAST SEVEN MONTHS in Kaduna State, in north-central Nigeria, there have been incessant attacks by Fulani herdsmen on Christian communities, killing 178 people. In a statement by the Catholic bishops of Kaduna Province sent to Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), the bishops said that “dark clouds [...]
A court in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore has sentenced a Christian man, Asif Pervaiz, to death under the country’s blasphemy law, after he was accused of sending blasphemous text message to his former boss. According to his lawyer, Saif-ul-Malook, Pervaiz, 37, has been in custody since 2013 after [...]
The Center for Deacon Services was established in 2010 by the Patriarchate of the Coptic Catholic Church. It offers many social and pastoral activities and initiatives aimed primarily at women, families and young people. In addition, there are various support programs for those in need, including life skills classes, literacy classes, [...]
In the poorest, remotest and most inaccessible regions, the Missionary Sisters of Jesus Word and Victim, minister to the faithful in their poverty and bring them hope. The congregation was founded in 1961 in Peru and is active today in no fewer than seven countries of Latin America. In the [...]
Until recent times, Lebanon was the only country in the Middle East with a Christian majority. Today, however, Christians make up no more than an estimated 34% of the total population. And among young people aged under 25 only one quarter are now Christians. The emigration among the Christian population [...]
The two nuns who disappeared in Mocímboa da Praia , northern Mozambique, have been found safe and sound, according to a statement from Mons. Luiz Fernando Lisboa, Bishop of Pemba. " Sisters Inês and Eliane ", both Brazilian and missing for "twenty-four days" , are now "back among us, safe and sound." The two sisters of [...]
Quietly and politely they form a line in the hot sun outside the Socio-Medical Intercommunity Dispensary in the poor Beirut neighborhood of Nabaa. Some are elderly and live alone. Others have families to feed. All have put aside any embarrassment in accepting a handout, in order to eat. The dispensary [...]
Belarus is going through a serious political crisis with unpredictable consequences after the current president Alexander Lukashenko, in power for 26 years, claimed victory in the last elections, on 9 August, considered by the opposition to be fraudulent. The challenge to Lukashenko, who seeks to carry out a sixth term [...]
In a moving video interview with Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Asia Bibi has made a heartfelt appeal to Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on behalf of the religious minorities in the country, recalling in particular the terrible plight of the many underage Pakistani girls abducted, forcibly converted [...]
