1) EXODUS OF YOUTH: This absurd war has torn Syria in five years, has forced lots of young Syrians to flee violence, military service, death and chaos… With the closure of consulates and refused visas, these young people spend their fortune and ruin their families to join illegal immigration which is very expensive and dangerous,...
Report Visit to Peru August 2015 From April 18th until May 2nd Marco Mancaglia (responsible for Latin America Section I at Aid to the Church in Need) and Regina Lynch (Director of Projects at Aid to the Church in Need, International) visited the southern part of Peru. This is the part which benefited...
Din l-Ittra Pastorali, li hi t’importanza kbira għall-familja u għas-soċjetà, qed tiġi ppublikata bil-kortesija tal-E.T. Mons. Mario Grech JCD, JUL, Isqof ta’ Għawdex. This Pastoral Letter is being published with the courtesy of H.G. Mgr. Mario Grech JCD, JUL, Bishop of Gozo.
Sierra Leone 20.08.2015 Sierra Leone is a nation that has seen its share of hardship, suffering through both a ten-year civil war ending in 2002 and the recent Ebola crisis. Mons. Henry Aruna , National Director of the Pontifical Mission in Sierra Leone, spoke of this hardship and other concerns on his recent visit to...
Hakha, Myanmar 17.08.2015 After large floods, a cyclone and landslides in parts of Myanmar, Aid to the Church in Need expresses its solidarity with Myanmar’s flood victims. Königstein, 17.08.2015. The Catholic aid organisation Aid to the Church in Need has promised prayers and emergency aid on a case by case basis for those people...
Iraq 06.08.2015 – 120,000 baptized are still living as refugees after a year of the invasion of their peoples Daesh (Islamic State) Behnam Benoka is a young Syrian Catholic priest of Ankawa, the Christian Quarter of Erbil, capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. On the night of 6 to 7 August last year he was in the...
Ukraine 13.08.2015 When the massive statue of Lenin in Kharkiv was to be demolished, it was feared that it would topple over and its weight would break through the ground, beneath which ran the underground railway. But when the statue was broken up into many pieces, the truth was revealed: it was hollow inside, as...
Al Qaryatqyn, Syria 10.08.2015 There is great concern in Syria following the kidnapping of dozens of Christians by the terror group “Islamic State” Homs/Königstein, 10.08.2015. “We do not know what ‘Islamic State’ intends to do with the hostages,” Father Jihad Youssef, a member of a Syrian-Catholic religious order, told the Catholic pastoral charity Aid to...
