THE STRENGTH OF LITTLE HEARTS “May the children sing, may they raise their voices, may they make the world listen, may they unite their voices and reach the sun, the truth is in them. May the children who live in peace sing and may those who are suffering pain sing for those who do not...
A GROWING INSECURITY The level of unrest in Cameroun has been growing since 2016 when the country’s English-speaking community began to demand a return to federalism. More than 500 people including a Priest and Seminarian have lost their lives and some 200,000 have been displaced as a result of clashes between the military and the...
BRAVERY UNDER FIRE This is the title of a Film made to tell the extraordinary story of an Irish priest who died as a British army chaplain in the First World War. Last Thursday, Campbell Miller, director of the film, presented a copy to Pope Francis to be screened in the Vatican, days later. The...
A RAY OF LIGHT FOR SYRIA Suffering and hopelessness have become the norm for Syrians. Not only do they have to deal with the daily life plagued by terrorism as well as the loss of their...
A BRIDGE OF LOVE In our effort to be a bridge of love between our benefactors and beneficiaries, ACN (Malta) has presented a Chalice donated by a benefactor to a poor parish in Syria. Stephen Axisa, the National Director of Aid to the Church in Need (Malta), while he was at a Directors’ meeting in...
THE NEW SAINT, OSCAR ROMERO Pope Francis on Sunday canonized the Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, declaring him a new saint alongside Pope Paul VI and 5 others. The Holy Father praised Romero for disregarding his own life “to be close to the poor and to his people”. Archbishop Romero was murdered in 1980 for speaking out against military...
PRAY FOR ASIA BIBI The final ruling of the Pakistan Supreme Court on the fate of Aasiya Noreen, “Asia Bibi”, a Catholic mother of five from Pakistan who has been in prison for nine years, is around the corner. Asia Bibi was found guilty of blasphemy in 2010 due to a comment she made about...
WHAT DOES LOVE LOOK LIKE? Last week, we hosted the screening of the film “Augustine, Son of Her Tears”, the first of its kind in Malta and Gozo. The Filmmaker who was present at the event told us that the film featured 50 strong sayings of St. Augustine taken from his book, “The Confessions”. Among...
A MOMENT OF INSPIRATION As a Pastoral Charity dedicated to the three-fold mission of supporting the Church through prayer, re-evangelization and active charity, Aid to the Church in Need (Malta) has organised the premiere screening of the film, “Augustine, Son of Her Tears” in collaboration with the Augustinian Institute. It was an evening of great inspiration and...
LET’S SECURE OUR FUTURE The Gospel says that ‘Jesus went about all the cities and villages… When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few; pray therefore the...
