The icon of Our Lady Consoler of the Syrian people blessed by the Holy Father as part of ACN's prayer campaign for Syrian Christians tagged “Console my people” has continued its voyage across Syria and will go on until 31st of May. This campaign which seeks to perpetuate the memory of [...]

The Saint John the Merciful table project supported by Aid to the Church in Need at the Syrian border in Zahleh, Lebanon where 300 refugee families are fed daily continues despite the limitations posed by measures taken to contain and prevent the spread of the coronavirus in Lebanon. Adjusting to [...]

For the umpteenth time no progress has been made in the case of Huma Younus, the 14-year-old Catholic girl abducted on 10 October last year in Karachi, Pakistan, then raped, forcibly 'converted‘ to Islam and forced to 'marry‘ her own abductor. As reported to ACN by the lawyer representing the [...]

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 [...]