ACN has been sending Mass stipends to support priests in Ukraine who continue to serve a war-weary and frightened people. Almost 1,900 Catholic priests are receiving these stipends, all over the country. One such priest is Father Andriy Bodnaruk, who ministers both to families in the capital and to soldiers [...]
"Thinking about the humanitarian tragedy of Ukraine, still under the bombardment of this sacrilegious war, let us not get tired of praying and helping those who suffer". With these words, before the Marian recitation of the Angelus, Francis again, this time from the island of Malta, recalled the drama that [...]
To mark the World Day of Prayer for Vocations, celebrated on Good Shepherd Sunday, which this year falls on May 8, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is sharing a series of testimonials of young men who have chosen to prepare for the priesthood. Seminarian Tadey with other [...]
Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has just approved an emergency relief package for Latin Rite female congregations involved in charity work in the Archdiocese of Lviv, such as the Benedictines of Solonka, who opened the doors of their contemplative monastery to refugees. The contemplative Benedictines of Solonka, in [...]
As the military invasion of Ukraine has reached its 46th day, the Pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has begun the second phase of its emergency aid package to the country. Immediately after the start of the war, ACN announced a first package for the dioceses, eparchies [...]
Basic products, medicines, clothes, and food are arriving in small trucks Angel Sisters giving some food for the refugees at the main station in Vinnytsia. who make their way to the Diocese of Kamianets-Podilski to alleviate the crisis caused by the war in Ukraine. 4 Emergency aid has [...]
Heroic Sisters in Ukraine helping some of the country’s more than six million IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons) have received vital support from a leading Catholic charity. Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has announced a new emergency aid package supporting Roman Catholic women’s orders tending to IDPs in Lviv [...]
Lviv during the war: Sisters sewing military vests for Ukrainian soldiers. Millions of people have had to flee their homes to save themselves and their children, abandoning the regions of the east and south of Ukraine, and heading west. According to recent figures by UNHCR almost four million [...]
In the flight to find a safe place to live, many Ukrainians are seeking to leave the country. Some of those fleeing to Poland have taken refuge in the seminary and retreat house facilities of the Latin Archdiocese of Lviv, located in Bryukhovychi, on the outskirts of Lviv. Since 24 [...]
For the Roman Catholic Bishop of Odessa, Stanislav Schyrokoradiuk, one of the main reasons for the invasion of Ukraine is the way the Russian population has been misinformed: “We Ukrainians are the victims of the war; the Russian people are the victims of propaganda.” Last Tuesday the bishop took part [...]
