With a number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in the country, Nicolás Maduro has decreed a “state of alarm” at a time when the country is facing perhaps the “greatest crisis in its history” posing great concern for the health and well-being of Venezuelans. In these times of uncertainty and difficulty, the Catholic Church has...
March 15 marks the ninth anniversary of the start of the conflict in Syria. “The situation is terrible,” said Sister Maria Lúcia Ferreira, a sister from the Mar Yakub Monastery in Qara, in the Christian region of Qalamoun, in a statement to the Portuguese headquarters of the ACN international foundation. According to the Portuguese-born religious,...
Despite the crisis in Burkina Faso and its consequent danger to life and limb, courageous young men are braving the odds to continue their studies for the priesthood and Aid to the Church in Need is standing with them through it all. Sixty one (61) seminarians belonging to the diocese of Ouahigouya which lies in...
Asia Bibi has taken upon herself a new and great cause! One of defending victims of the Blasphemy Law in Pakistan which has led to the unjust arrest and death sentence of religious minorities especially Christians in the Country. As a victim of the Blasphemy Law herself, she has a first-hand experience and says, “I...
A delegation of Aid to the Church in Need led by the Director of the Foundation’s Italian National Office, Alessandro Monteduro who recently visited the camps of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Burkina Faso have reported that there are almost 800,000 displaced people and more than 2,300 schools are closed as a result of the...
A Kindergarten which will care for 125 children of Batnaya, Iraq is underway as part of a massive programme devised by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) to help revive the most devastated of the 13 Christian towns/villages in the Nineveh Plains. After two years of Islamist occupation, just one percent of its 997...
A great number of Nigerian Catholics led by the Country’s Episcopal Conference took to the streets yesterday, 1st March 2020 to protest the high level of insecurity in the Country in a bid to draw attention of the federal government and the international community to the plight Christians and to pray for peace in the...
Bishop Georges Varkey Puthiyakulangara of Port-Bergé, northern Madagascar has lamented that his country is being islamised on a fast pace. The most worrying situation according to him, is the fact that extremist muslims are exploiting poor non-Muslim women by paying them to wear the burka. In an interview with Aid to the Church in Need,...
As in many other parts of the world, the prisons in Latin America are hopelessly overfilled and conditions within them are extremely hard. For example, the prison in Callao, Peru, was designed for 1500 prisoners but currently holds 5,600. For these prisoners the Catholic prison outreach which is supported by ACN is a real blessing....
At the Syrian border in Zahleh, Lebanon, everyday 300 refugee families who have been forced to flee from Syria after islamists targeted Christian homes, are fed at the St. John the Merciful Table with the support of Aid to the Church in Need. The St. John the Merciful Table is an initiative inspired by the...
