IT HAS BEEN one year since the government of the Central African Republic and armed groups signed a peace treaty. Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) asked Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga, archbishop of Bangui, for an assessment of the situation. On Feb. 6, 2019 a peace agreement was signed by the government and 14 armed...
Preaching a message of peace in a conflict-ridden region, Archbishop Andrew Fuanya Nkea took over the Archdiocese of Bamenda in Cameroon on Feb. 22 2020. “I am coming to Bamenda at a very difficult time, a time when the socio-political crisis has hit the whole ecclesiastical Province of Bamenda,” Archbishop Nkea said. “We have seen...
Today being Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, Catholics all over Nigeria are dressed in black or at least black armbands as a sign of mourning and solidarity with the victims of terror and insecurity in the Country. Speaking to Aid to the Church in Need this morning, Father Greg Nbashi of the Catholic Diocese...
BHASKAR SUNAMAJHI (43) is one of seven Christians falsely accused and convicted of the August 2008 murder of a Hindu leader in the Kandhamal district of India’s Odisha State. The killing triggered the worst eruption of Christian persecution in modern Indian history. Almost 100 Christians were killed, while 300 churches and 6,000 homes were destroyed....
Over 60 Bishops from around the Mediterranean region including Maltese Bishop George Bugeja of Libya, Archbishop Charles Scicluna and Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Galea Curmi of Malta, Mgr Denys Antoine Chahda, Archbishop of Aleppo Syria and Cardinal Sako Louis Raphaël of Iraq gathered in Bari Italy from the 19th to 23rd of February 2020 for a...
Homily at the Funeral Mass of Seminarian Michael Nnadi (Sokoto Diocese), on 11th February 2020 at Good Shepherd Seminary, Kaduna Matthew Hassan Kukah, Bishop of Sokoto Diocese We have gathered around the remains of Michael in supplication but also as solemn witnesses to the penetrating darkness that hovers over our country. I have the rare...
Batnaya is a town in the north of Iraq, some 24 km from Mosul. Before ISIS arrived there were 950 families living here, all of them Chaldean Catholics. It was used by the terrorist group as its frontline while it shelled Kurdish troops. So without doubt it was one of the worst hit areas, first...
An interview with Sister Annie Demerjian of the Congregation of the Religious of Jesus and Mary The city of Aleppo, long known as the industrial capital of Syria, with thousands of factories and workshops, was reduced to demolished buildings and rubble-strewn streets during a bloody siege from 2012 to 2016. Hundreds of people were killed ,and...
A 14-year-old Christian girl, who had been kidnapped, gang-raped and forcibly converted to Islam on paper and married off to a Muslim man, was rescued and brought back to her home in the city of Lahore in Pakistan. The Christian girl, Sneha, who lives in the Bahar area of Lahore and is a Class 9...
At least 24 people were killed and 18 wounded on Sunday during an armed attack on a Protestant church in Pansy, a town in the province of Yagha in northeastern Burkina Faso. The attack took place on Sunday morning when the service was taking place. There are reports that at least three people have also been...
