After fleeing ISIS, a young Syriac Orthodox man talks to Aid to the Church in Need. Wissam Ablahad (26) is a Syriac Orthodox young man who lives with his parents and two siblings in the township of Ba’ashiqah, on the Nineveh Plains in northern Iraq. Wissam and his family, like many thousands of Christian families...
7th February 2020 marks exactly 3 years since Sister Gloria Cecilia Narvaez Argoti was kidnapped by jihadists in the Franciscan mission where she lived and worked in Karangasso, Mali, close to the border with Burkina Faso. Since September 2018, when a video was released with her sister and another hostage, the French doctor Sophie Petronin,...
THE parents of Huma Younus – the girl at the centre of an abduction, forced marriage and conversion case – have begged the international community for help, fearing her case will be deliberately delayed for several years until she “turns 18”. In an exclusive video message to Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need...
Attacks in northern Mozambique have already caused more than 500 deaths and thousands of displaced people since October 2017. Speaking to Aid to the Church in Need, Bishop of Pemba, Msgr Luiz Fernando Lisboa speaks of the jihadist threat, the inability of the security forces to contain this wave of violence and the help that...
The Pontifical Foundation Aid to the Church in Need is greatly saddened and dismayed at the murder of the 18-year-old Nigerian seminarian, Michael Nnadi who was abducted by armed assailants, along with three other seminarians, on 8th January this year from the Good Shepherd Seminary in Kaduna in northern Nigeria. Whereas his three fellow students...
Christians across Pakistan are rejoicing after a court (Wednesday, 29th January) acquitted 40 men jailed for alleged involvement in the lynching of two people in a district outside Lahore. The 40 individuals, almost all of them Christians, shouted “Alleluia, Praise God” as the anti-terrorism court in Lahore ordered their release after nearly five years in...
The Pakistani Christian community is shocked by the application of Islamic law, ‘sharia’, by the Karachi Supreme Court in a kidnapping case that has mobilized international public opinion. Ignoring the law itself, which does not allow the marriage of minors, the judges yesterday validated the forced marriage of Huma Younus, a Christian girl, just 14...
