The Center for Deacon Services was established in 2010 by the Patriarchate of the Coptic Catholic Church. It offers many social and pastoral activities and initiatives aimed primarily at women, families and young people. In addition, there are various support programs for those in need, including life skills classes, literacy classes, continuing education programs, a series...
In the poorest, remotest and most inaccessible regions, the Missionary Sisters of Jesus Word and Victim, minister to the faithful in their poverty and bring them hope. The congregation was founded in 1961 in Peru and is active today in no fewer than seven countries of Latin America. In the archdiocese of Sucre in Bolivia...
Until recent times, Lebanon was the only country in the Middle East with a Christian majority. Today, however, Christians make up no more than an estimated 34% of the total population. And among young people aged under 25 only one quarter are now Christians. The emigration among the Christian population continues unabated. Already during the...
The two nuns who disappeared in Mocímboa da Praia , northern Mozambique, have been found safe and sound, according to a statement from Mons. Luiz Fernando Lisboa, Bishop of Pemba. ” Sisters Inês and Eliane “, both Brazilian and missing for “twenty-four days” , are now “back among us, safe and sound.” The two sisters of the San José de Chambéry congregation disappeared the...
Quietly and politely they form a line in the hot sun outside the Socio-Medical Intercommunity Dispensary in the poor Beirut neighborhood of Nabaa. Some are elderly and live alone. Others have families to feed. All have put aside any embarrassment in accepting a handout, in order to eat. The dispensary has been run by the...
Belarus is going through a serious political crisis with unpredictable consequences after the current president Alexander Lukashenko, in power for 26 years, claimed victory in the last elections, on 9 August, considered by the opposition to be fraudulent. The challenge to Lukashenko, who seeks to carry out a sixth term at the head of the...
In a moving video interview with Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Asia Bibi has made a heartfelt appeal to Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on behalf of the religious minorities in the country, recalling in particular the terrible plight of the many underage Pakistani girls abducted, forcibly converted to Islam and forcibly married...
About a month after a gigantic explosion devastated the port region of the Lebanese capital city, Sister Maria Lúcia Ferreira describes an environment of desolation, despair and fear among the Christian community. The Portuguese nun, better known as Sister Myri, and who belongs to the Congregation of the Nuns of Unity in Antioquia, explains, in...
The whereabouts of two religious sisters of the congregation of Saint Joseph of Chambéry is still unknown and nothing has been heard of them since the violent attack by rebel jihadist groups on the port of Mocímboa da Praia in early August this year. Father Kwiriwi Fonseca, of the diocese of Pemba in northern Mozambique,...
As reported by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) a few months ago, 40 Christian men were released in late January 2020 after spending nearly five years in prison, randomly accused of participating in the lynching of two Muslim men. The lynching happened amid riots sparked by twin suicide blasts targeting services at St....
