20,000 Catechisms for children and young people El Salvador has still not fully recovered from the consequences of its brutal civil war from 1981 to 1991. Unemployment is high, the gulf between rich and poor is enormous and numerous organised criminal gangs continue to make the country unsafe to this day. The income of an...
Syrian priest Father Jacques Mourad, the prior of the Mar Elian Monastery,who was abducted by IS last May has recently been released after five months. He is currently staying in the village of Zaydal about three miles from the city of Homs. Fr Mourad celebrated his release by conducting Mass the next day in Homs...
Melkite archbishop of Aleppo, Syria, Jean-Clément Jeanbart,described Pope Francis’ speech to over 150 world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly as magnificent and worthy of in-depth analysis. In his speech Pope Francis boldly spoke out in defence of justice, the right of every person to a decent living, respect for human life and the environment and integral development....
ACN Malta The Benedictine Monastery of Tabgha receives compensation for a serious arson attack on their church The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Mons. Fouad Twal, said that on 21 September the General Prosecutor of Israel decided to accept the claim of the Benedictine Monastery of Tabgha, which had requested compensation for the damage caused by...
When they toppled the great statue of Lenin in Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine, some people were worried that it might fall too heavily and by its sheer weight smash through the ground beneath which the underground train line ran. But when the statue was instead broken up into several pieces, the real truth came to...
Warm anoraks needed for refugee children in Damascus “Why does God allow Syria to suffer so much? Why must the innocent die? Why does not God grant us peace, when we still pray for it?“ Questions like these are asked of the sisters on a daily basis by the young people in Damascus. Sister Marie-Joseph...
4-wheel drive vehicle needed for pastoral work in the new diocese of Bahir Dar–Dessi Many foreign tourists fly to Bahir Dar in Western Ethiopia. The third largest city in the country, it is a place where you can not only holiday beneath blossoming tropical trees on the shores of Lake Tana, or take a boat...
Common Declaration of the Bishops of Africa and Madagascar Given the current developments on the African continent, in view of the September 25 – 27 New-York Summit for the adoption of a “post-2015 global development agenda” Respect, Love and Serve Africa in Truth! To our African Heads of States and Governments, To the Secretary General of...
Archbishop Jean-Clément Jeanbart celebrating his 20 anniversary as Bishop of Aleppo writes a moving testimony of his fight for his faithful to stay in Syria. It has been 20 years, exactly. On Sept. 16, 1995 the Church saw fit to appoint me to lead the Diocese of Aleppo. It was a solemn day in my...
