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 [...]
About a month after a gigantic explosion devastated the port region of the Lebanese capital city, Sister Maria Lúcia Ferreira describes an environment of desolation, despair and fear among the Christian community. The Portuguese nun, better known as Sister Myri, and who belongs to the Congregation of the Nuns of [...]
The whereabouts of two religious sisters of the congregation of Saint Joseph of Chambéry is still unknown and nothing has been heard of them since the violent attack by rebel jihadist groups on the port of Mocímboa da Praia in early August this year. Father Kwiriwi Fonseca, of the diocese [...]
As reported by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) a few months ago, 40 Christian men were released in late January 2020 after spending nearly five years in prison, randomly accused of participating in the lynching of two Muslim men. The lynching happened amid riots sparked by twin suicide [...]
The Brothers of Saint Albert in East Ukraine are on the frontline in a twofold sense: the frontline in the war and the frontline in their work of mercy, caring for the homeless, the handicapped and alcoholics. Yurij is 69. His story is a story of mercy received. He suffered [...]
Sister Shobka Rani Talari smiles when she gets on her new moped. She is not daunted by the poor roads that she often has to take into the jungle as she carries out her work for the mission in Chhaygaon, which is located in the Archdiocese of Guwahati in the [...]
Living trapped in addiction is a hell, not only for the addict but also for his family and all those around him. The Fazendas – the “Farms of Hope” - seek to give an answer to this suffering. Originating in Brazil, today there are 139 Fazendas in 22 countries around [...]
Six years after IS-invasion a Church´s reconstruction fuels Christian´s hope On August 6, 2014, IS units conquered and razed to the ground the Christian settlements of the Nineveh Plain, north and east of Mosul. Some 120,000 Christians had to flee overnight. Qaraqosh-Baghdeda, 20 miles east of Mosul, was the largest [...]
