In view of the global dimension of the coronavirus pandemic, the International President of Aid to the Church in Need, Thomas Heine-Geldern sent a letter to all national offices of the foundation to remind that, in this very difficult and “challenging” time, we cannot forget those who suffer the most, [...]

Religious experts have said that there is an urgent need to respond to the continuing attacks by extremist groups against Christian communities in Africa, due to significant increase in beheadings, kidnappings and other violent attacks by extremist groups against Christian communities. The statement was made at a meeting which took place [...]

For the past 10 years there has been a notable increase in the number of anti-Christian attacks and incidents in the Holy Land. Perpetrated by Jewish hardliners, they have been regularly denounced by the Christian Churches of the Holy Land, who have appealed about them to the civil authorities. The [...]

Interview with Maltese Bishop Allesandro of Garissa, Kenya Bishop Joseph Alessandro is the Catholic Bishop of Garissa, Kenya. He is Maltese, and as a Franciscan missionary in the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, has been working in Kenya for the past 14 years In this interview with ACN, he shares [...]

With a number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in the country, Nicolás Maduro has decreed a "state of alarm" at a time when the country is facing perhaps the “greatest crisis in its history” posing great concern for the health and well-being of Venezuelans. In these times of uncertainty and [...]

March 15 marks the ninth anniversary of the start of the conflict in Syria. "The situation is terrible," said Sister Maria Lúcia Ferreira, a sister from the Mar Yakub Monastery in Qara, in the Christian region of Qalamoun, in a statement to the Portuguese headquarters of the ACN international foundation. [...]

Despite the crisis in Burkina Faso and its consequent danger to life and limb, courageous young men are braving the odds to continue their studies for the priesthood and Aid to the Church in Need is standing with them through it all. Sixty one (61) seminarians belonging to the diocese [...]

Asia Bibi has taken upon herself a new and great cause! One of defending victims of the Blasphemy Law in Pakistan which has led to the unjust arrest and death sentence of religious minorities especially Christians in the Country. As a victim of the Blasphemy Law herself, she has a [...]

A delegation of Aid to the Church in Need led by the Director of the  Foundation’s Italian National Office, Alessandro Monteduro who recently  visited the camps of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Burkina Faso have reported that there are almost 800,000 displaced people and more than 2,300 schools are closed [...]

A Kindergarten which will care for 125 children of Batnaya, Iraq is underway as part of a massive programme devised by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) to help revive the most devastated of the 13 Christian towns/villages in the Nineveh Plains. After two years of Islamist occupation, just [...]