IRAQ - First Mass in Qaraqosh since it was liberated from IS Although Qaraqosh was liberated by the Nineveh Plain Protection Units (NPU) and Iraqi military about twelve days ago, its former citizens are unable to return. Sporadic gunfire is still going on and the town has not yet been cleared of [...]
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO”No one cares to visit us.” Christine du Coudray, head of the Africa department at international Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need, just came back from a project trip to Democratic Republic of the Congo. She visited the Eastern part of the country, still suffering [...]
Vision after the Liberation of Mosul and the Nineveh Plain Towns IntroductionIn the 1930, Christians were about 5% of Iraq's population and used to have a vital presence in the most important cities of the country. However, the number has sharply declined after the USA invasion of Iraq in 2003 due [...]
IRAQ - Latest ordinations hint at tentative rebirth of Christianity Just a few miles away from the ongoing horrors of war, two ordinations in Iraqi Kurdistan last Friday were a cause for great celebration among the local Christian community. They offer hope not only of survival but rebirth for Christianity in the [...]
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"The worst is still to come” A project partner of Aid to the Church in Need has warned that the upsurge of fighting in South Sudan will see the humanitarian crisis affecting millions of civilians worsening. One of the Catholic charity’s South Sudanese project partners, who cannot be named for security [...]
ACN sponsors 3500 youths from difficult situations to attend Some 3,500 young people from 29 different countries will be able to attend World Youth Day in Krakow, Poland July 25-31, 2016, thanks to the support of international Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN).Many of the youth hail from [...]
Archbishop criticises government for blocking Church aid The head of the Venezuelan Conference of Catholic Bishops has criticised president Nicolás Maduro for preventing the Church and other institutions from relieving the country's severe food crisis. Venezuela's socialist government is widely blamed for the crisis. Price controls on 160 essential products [...]
Pope visits ACN sponsored orphanage Pope Francis visited the Sisters of Our Lady of Armenia who run an orphanage and a day centre for the elderly, which ACN has been helping since 1997. Francis rested for a few hours on the second day of his journey in the dormitory of [...]
NIGERIA - Escaped girl tells her story A girl called Sa’a who managed to escape her abductors recalls what happened that night when Boko Haram attacked the Chibok school two years ago. “They were all shooting guns and yelling ‘Allahu Akbar’,” she said. They burned the school and forced the captive [...]