A great number of Nigerian Catholics led by the Country’s Episcopal Conference took to the streets yesterday, 1st March 2020 to protest the high level of insecurity in the Country in a bid to draw attention of the federal government and the international community to the plight Christians and to pray for peace in the...

Bishop Georges Varkey Puthiyakulangara of Port-Bergé, northern Madagascar has lamented that his country is being islamised on a fast pace. The most worrying situation according to him,  is the fact that extremist muslims are exploiting poor non-Muslim women by paying them to wear the burka.  In an interview with Aid to the Church in Need,...

As in many other parts of the world, the prisons in Latin America are hopelessly overfilled and conditions within them are extremely hard. For example, the prison in Callao, Peru, was designed for 1500 prisoners but currently holds 5,600. For these prisoners the Catholic prison outreach which is supported by ACN is a real blessing....

At the Syrian border in Zahleh, Lebanon, everyday 300 refugee families who have been forced to flee from Syria after islamists targeted Christian homes, are fed at the St. John the Merciful Table with the support of Aid to the Church in Need. The St. John the Merciful Table is an initiative inspired by the...

IT HAS BEEN one year since the government of the Central African Republic and armed groups signed a peace treaty. Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) asked Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga, archbishop of Bangui, for an assessment of the situation. On Feb. 6, 2019 a peace agreement was signed by the government and 14 armed...

Preaching a message of peace in a conflict-ridden region, Archbishop Andrew Fuanya Nkea took over the Archdiocese of Bamenda in Cameroon on Feb. 22 2020. “I am coming to Bamenda at a very difficult time, a time when the socio-political crisis has hit the whole ecclesiastical Province of Bamenda,” Archbishop Nkea said. “We have seen...

Today being Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, Catholics all over Nigeria are dressed in black or at least black armbands as a sign of mourning and solidarity with the victims of terror and insecurity in the Country. Speaking to Aid to the Church in Need this morning, Father Greg Nbashi of the Catholic Diocese...

BHASKAR SUNAMAJHI (43) is one of seven Christians falsely accused and convicted of the August 2008 murder of a Hindu leader in the Kandhamal district of India’s Odisha State. The killing triggered the worst eruption of Christian persecution in modern Indian history. Almost 100 Christians were killed, while 300 churches and 6,000 homes were destroyed....