SYRIA Strengthening faith and hope through sport in Aleppo The pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is supporting a project for the rebuilding of a multipurpose sports centre for the Armenian Christian community Josué Villalón reports from Aleppo: “The area of East Aleppo has not attracted so much media attention as...
GUINEA – Church flourishes again after years of suppression by dictator Guinea is an overwhelmingly Islamic country in which roughly 85% of the population of 11.6 million people are Muslims. Christians make up only around 8%, while the remainder of the population is adherents of traditional African religions. For decades this country of West Africa...
CAMEROON – “I only want to be healed so that I can become a priest.” Day after day, little Jean-Thierry made ice from twenty litres of lemon juice to sell on the street. He never even took a tiny taste of it himself, no matter how dry his throat became from the heat and the...
BRAZIL – ACN Bibles in the indigenous Macuxi language help strengthen the faith The indigenous Macuxi people today number around 15,000, of whom roughly two thirds currently live in the Amazon area of northern Brasil, close to the frontier with Venezuela and Guyana. The remaining third live in Guyana itself. The Macuxi came into contact...
SYRIA – “Your generosity is helping us to realise that we are not alone” It is six months now since the bombs stopped falling on the city of Aleppo in Syria. Although in the distance, at night time, you can still hear explosions in some still disputed zones on the outskirts of this large city...
NIGERIA Supporting widows and orphans of Boko Haram victims Vital assistance from a leading Catholic charity is to be provided for Nigerian widows and orphans who lost loved ones in violence perpetrated by Islamist militants Boko Haram. Aid to the Church in Need has agreed a £63,000 (€70,000) package of food parcels and schooling...
NIGERIA Supporting widows and orphans of men killed by Boko Haram terrorists Aid to the Church in Need is providing vital assistance for Nigerian widows and orphans who lost loved ones in violence perpetrated by Islamist militants Boko Haram. On an ACN fact-finding and project-assessment trip to north-east Nigeria in March, Church sources reported that...
BANGLADESH – Priests in Mymensingh can now reach the scattered faithful on new motorcycles Catholics make up only a tiny minority in Bangladesh, are currently in which some 90% of its over 144 million strong population are Muslims. The Catholic Church is relatively young in this particular country of Southeast Asia, which was formerly known...
