Today, 19th February 2019 marks exactly one year since the abduction of 15-year old Leah Sharibu, one of the school girls taken hostage by Boko Haram Terrorists from Dapchi in Maiduguri, North East Nigeria. Speaking with Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Reverend Gideon Para-Mallam who is the family guardian and spokesman of the...
THE “ASIA BIBIS” THE WORLD KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT In Pakistan, 224 Christians have been victims of the blasphemy law since the law’s passage in 1986, Cecil Shane Chaudhry, Executive Director of the National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP) of Pakistan, told a delegation from Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) during a visit...
A HOMECOMING NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN Christian families in Syria forced from their homes by extremists celebrated their return last Thursday, 14th February with a ceremony marking the reconstruction of 55 houses funded by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). At the service, parishioners packed into St Mary’s Church, in Krak des Chevaliers...
On 27 January 2019, two bombs exploded inside the Jolo cathedral in the Sulu archipelago, situated between the islands of between Mindanao and Borneo. The attack killed 23 people and injured112 others. On January 30, there was a grenade attack on a mosque in Zamboanga, west of Mindanao Island. Father Sebastiano d’Ambra, a missionary of...
Mons. Kaigama: “IF THE ELECTIONS ARE MARRED BY VIOLENCE MANY INNOCENT NIGERIANS WILL PAY THE PRIZE” “ACN can mobilize their world net-work of friends, benefactors and supporters to commit Nigeria to special prayers at this critical time of elections.” Nigerians will be going to the polls on 16th February and 2nd March 2019 to elect...
A BEACON OF HOPE FOR SYRIAN FAMILIES In the region of Marmarita, Syria, the local Catholic Church is working together with the Pontifical Foundation Aid to the Church in Need to support the refugee families and help them return to their homes Ghassan Abboud and his wife Maha Sanna used to live in Homs...
SEED FOR A POSSIBLE PAPAL VISIT TO IRAQ The Patriarch of Iraq’s Chaldean Catholic Church, Mar Louis Raphaël ISakohas said that a pastoral visit to Iraq by Pope Francis would be an encouragement for what’s left of the Christian community as well as a call for every Iraqi citizen to “open up, to build...
YOUTH APOSTOLATE, A PRIORITY The youth apostolate is a major priority of the Archdiocese of Addis Ababa, for the challenges facing young people in Ethiopia are immense. Many of these young people face a future of poverty and unemployment and can only dream of fleeing the countryside for the capital, or even leaving the country...
“We will not allow this tragedy to divide and isolate us from the rest of the country.” Jolo, Sulu – A small city in military lockdown, an all-out war in the adjacent municipality against violent extremists, families in mourning after burying their dead, injured patients recovering in various hospitals, and some having to be amputated....
At present the Anglophone areas of Cameroon are being constantly shaken by a conflict between Anglophone separatist groups and the Francophone central government. In this context of fratricidal conflict, the Church is attempting to rekindle dialogue between the two parties. Bishop Emmanuel Abbo of Ngaoundéré, in the Francophone area, who is 49, and Auxiliary Bishop...
