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 countries close...
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 including food and soap introduced...
Hundreds of thousands of people in northern Nigeria have suffered at the hands of militant group Boko Haram. Entire communities lie desolate as people seek sanctuary in places free of the Islamist threat. Many of them mourn lost loved ones; others are sick with worry about friends and family captured by the militants.
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 the convent of Our...
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 girls into trucks....
