Heart-breaking news emerged from Ukraine in recent days. Official government figures point to thousands of dead, among them 380 civilians. More than 600,000 people have sought refuge in neighbouring countries. Fighting has been most intense in the capital Kyiv and in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second most populous city. The project director [...]

Many orders, representing hundreds of male and female religious, have already sent messages of support to ACN, assuring it of their prayers and unity with Pope Francis’ request. The most touching words come from those who have lived through the horrors of war themselves. Aid to the Church in Need [...]

Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is commiting immediate emergency help to support the work of the Church in Ukraine. “What we all wanted to avoid has happened: Ukraine is in a state of war. ACN has supported the Church in Ukraine during the past and it will not [...]

The Catholic Church in Ukraine continues to place its hopes in peace talks and diplomatic solutions for the current crisis. This was the message relayed by the Latin Catholic Metropolitan Archbishop Mieczyslaw Mokrzycki, of Lviv, during a visit to  Aid to the Church in Need (ACN International) in Königstein, Germany, [...]

Pope Francis says his heart aches over the situation in Ukraine and announces a “Day of Fasting for Peace” on Ash Wednesday. During the General Audience on Wednesday, Pope Francis made a heartfelt appeal for peace in Ukraine, saying that the threat of war had caused “great pain in my [...]

The leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church said on Friday that the Church is offering hope to the country’s beleaguered population amid a “very dangerous escalation” in the Ukraine crisis. Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk was speaking on Feb. 4 at an online event marking eight years of conflict in [...]