ACN supports the prayer appeal of Patriarch Gregorios III – the charity has given 6.3 million Euros in emergency aid since the war began ACN, Königstein – 5.3.2015. Patriarch Gregorios III. Of Antioch, the head of the Melkite Greek-Catholic Church, which is in communion with Rome, has called for a day of solidarity with Syria...
Baghdad, 1 March 2015 – According to casualty figures released today by UNAMI, a total of 1,103 Iraqis were killed and another 2,280 were wounded in acts of terrorism and violence in February*. The number of civilians killed was 611 (Including 30 civilian police), and the number of civilians injured was 1,353 (including 29 civilian...
Interview with Peter Konteh, Executive Director of Caritas Freetown, Sierra Leone In West Africa the Ebola epidemic claimed thousands of victims in 2014. From Guinea it spread to the neighbouring countries of Sierra Leone and Liberia. It mainly affected the capitals and the border regions between the countries. Thanks to national and international aid, the...
THE extremist group Islamic State has now released some of the Christian hostages it seized in north-east Syria last week. According to London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 19 captives have been released – 18 were from the village of Tel Goran, one of the Assyrian Christian villages in Hassake governorate captured on 23rd...
IF YOU O LORD SHOULD MARK OUR GUILT, LORD, WHO WOULD SURVIVE? (Ps 130:3) 1: The Lord of Mercy In 2008, a woman phoned to complain to me that her youngest daughter had decided, out of the blue, to leave the Pentecostal Church to which they had been affiliated and to become a Catholic. Her...
