Below is an excerpt from the seventh chapter in Sierra-Leonean journalist and author Isha Sesay’s new book, “Beneath the Tamarind Tree,” the “first definitive account” of what took place on the ground following the abduction of 276 schoolgirls by Boko Haram in 2014. *** “We should burn these girls!” “No, let’s take them with us!” “Why not...

This Friday, 29th November 2019, Aid to the Church in Need (Malta) will play host to Mr. John Pontifex, a renowned UK Journalist and Head of Press & Information for Aid to the Church in Need (UK) who will be the Keynote Speaker at the Launch of ACN’s “Persecuted and Forgotten? A Report on Christians...

Pope Francis urged interreligious dialogue in Burkina Faso as ongoing violence by jihadist groups has killed more than 750 people in the West African country this year. “I address a special thought to dear Burkina Faso, who for some time has been tried by recurrent violence,” Pope Francis said in St. Peter’s Square recently. At...

Siham is a Syrian woman who had to give birth to her baby, by caesarean delivery, amid the war her country is going through. Aid to the Church in Need made it possible, both for mother and son, to be safe today. Siham dreamed of preparing everything for her baby’s birth. But the conditions were...

A Nigerian pastor who was abducted by the Boko Haram Islamic terrorist group seven months ago was finally freed last Sunday and said his captors demanded that he convert to Islam. Pastor Moses Oyeleke of Living Faith Church was released along with a young female named Ndagilaya Ibrahim Umar of the government science secondary school...