My Vocation Surfaced after Participation In Sunday Prayers in the Absence of a Priest My name is Hubert, I was born in the diocese of Luiza in the RDCongo. I went to primary school in this area. Baptized in infancy, I was integrated in a group of young people where I was able to benefit...
The Ankawa Youth Meeting (AYM) 22nd to 24th of August brought together Christian youth from across seven archdioceses. The Meeting counted around 1,000 participants from more than 60 parishes from different Iraqi cities including Baghdad, Basra, Duhok, Erbil, Kirkuk, Mosul and Sulaymaniyah. It was a very important event because a lot of the youth feel...
Lubna Safdar is a young Catholic widow in Sarghoda, in the Punjab province of Pakistan. She is the mother of a two-year-old son, Sharon. She told Aid to the Church in Need about her suffering in the wake of the murder of her husband, Safdar Masih, and the failure of authorities to launch a timely...
It is exactly ten years since the inception of terrorist activities by the Boko Haram Islamist group in Nigeria. This group of radical Islamist, whose principal goal is to create a strict Islamic state in the North of Nigeria started in 2009 and have continued to carry out deadly attacks, ravaging entire villages, killing and...
Id-Direzzjoni tal-Aid to the Church in Need (Malta) tirringrazzja lill-E.T. Joseph Galea Curmi, Isqof Awżiljarju tal-messaġġ tiegħu li ġentilment għoġbu jagħmel għall-jum internazzjonali li jfakkar il-vittmi ta’ atti ta’ vjolenza minħabba r-reliġjon jew t-twemmin. Nirringrazzjawh tat-talb u tal-appoġġ kontinwu tiegħu favur il-ħidma tal-Aid to the Church in Need b’risq ħutna l-Kristjani ppersegwitati. Nappellaw lill-Maltin u...
On 15 August, the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Pope Francis, during the Angelus prayer in St Peter’s Square, blessed 6,000 rosaries destined for Syria. They will be given to people in Syria who have had relatives or family members abducted or murdered during the civil war. This is part of...
“The new day to commemorate the victims of religious violence is an important step to ensuring that more attention is paid to persecuted Christians in the future,” explained Dr Thomas Heine-Geldern. The executive president of the pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is pleased that for the first time this year, 22...
A parish secretary has been murdered by an unknown assailant in her office at St. Cecile’s Catholic Church, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Mrs. Faustine Brou on Saturday evening, 10 August, was attacked in her office by a man who inflicted multiple knife wounds upon her, in an act of unspeakable violence. She was found alive...
A delegation of the International Pontifical Foundation, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) will be meeting with the Holy Father Pope Francis on Thursday, August 15th 2019 in a gesture to pray for peace in solidarity with the Syrian people, console families who mourn the loss of their dearest ones and commemorate the victims...
Various media reports suggest that the ongoing crisis in Central African Republic (CAR) is caused by a Muslim-Christian conflict or even Islamist efforts to subdue Christians. That is not the case, said one of the country’s prominent Catholic leaders. The ongoing bloodshed, said Bishop Nestor Nongo-Aziagba of Bossangoa, president of the CAR bishops’ conference, is...
