Batnaya is a town in the north of Iraq, some 24 km from Mosul. Before ISIS arrived there were 950 families living here, all of them Chaldean Catholics. It was used by the terrorist group as its frontline while it shelled Kurdish troops. So without doubt it was one of [...]
An interview with Sister Annie Demerjian of the Congregation of the Religious of Jesus and Mary The city of Aleppo, long known as the industrial capital of Syria, with thousands of factories and workshops, was reduced to demolished buildings and rubble-strewn streets during a bloody siege from 2012 to 2016. Hundreds [...]
A 14-year-old Christian girl, who had been kidnapped, gang-raped and forcibly converted to Islam on paper and married off to a Muslim man, was rescued and brought back to her home in the city of Lahore in Pakistan. The Christian girl, Sneha, who lives in the Bahar area of Lahore [...]
At least 24 people were killed and 18 wounded on Sunday during an armed attack on a Protestant church in Pansy, a town in the province of Yagha in northeastern Burkina Faso. The attack took place on Sunday morning when the service was taking place. There are reports that at least [...]
Around the world today, many Priests and religious are braving the odds and risking their lives to take the gospel to far-flung and unreached communities. Fr. Samuel Tswam, a priest of the Catholic Diocese of Jalingo in Taraba State, Nigeria is one of such Priests. He takes care of the [...]
The shrine to the 21 Christian men beheaded by ISIS on a Libyan beach in February 2015, will hold an exhibition on Feb. 15, honoring the men and marking the fifth anniversary of their death. Twenty of the men were Coptic Orthodox Christians from Egypt. The 21st victim was a [...]
After fleeing ISIS, a young Syriac Orthodox man talks to Aid to the Church in Need. Wissam Ablahad (26) is a Syriac Orthodox young man who lives with his parents and two siblings in the township of Ba’ashiqah, on the Nineveh Plains in northern Iraq. Wissam and his family, like [...]
7th February 2020 marks exactly 3 years since Sister Gloria Cecilia Narvaez Argoti was kidnapped by jihadists in the Franciscan mission where she lived and worked in Karangasso, Mali, close to the border with Burkina Faso. Since September 2018, when a video was released with her sister and another hostage, [...]
THE parents of Huma Younus - the girl at the centre of an abduction, forced marriage and conversion case - have begged the international community for help, fearing her case will be deliberately delayed for several years until she "turns 18". In an exclusive video message to Catholic charity Aid [...]
Attacks in northern Mozambique have already caused more than 500 deaths and thousands of displaced people since October 2017. Speaking to Aid to the Church in Need, Bishop of Pemba, Msgr Luiz Fernando Lisboa speaks of the jihadist threat, the inability of the security forces to contain this wave of [...]
