VENEZUELA Bishops ask for prayers on the eve of their ad limina visit to Rome Venezuela is going through what is perhaps the gravest crisis in its history. The Venezuelan bishops are preparing for their meeting with the Holy Father, according to the tradition of the ad limina visits to Rome. It will be...
CAMEROON Bishops call for an end to fighting so school can resume As children in Cameroon are getting ready to start a new school year, the bishops of the country’s strife-torn English-speaking regions are calling for an end to hostilities so young people can get an education. All six bishops of the Bamenda Ecclesiastical...
IRAQ Defeating IS with plaster and bricks Aid to the Church in Need helps Christians rebuild their houses after they were destroyed by Islamic State Slowly, house by house, the destruction that IS left behind after capturing Christian cities and villages in August of 2014 is becoming a memory. And at the very heart,...
NIGERIA The government appears to back Fulani outlaws The Catholic Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama of Jos told Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), that the killings by armed Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria continue to escalate because Fulani herders believe President Muhammadu Buhari (who is also a Fulani) is their ally. For that reason, they...
Venezuela The totalitarian project continues Bishops and experts comment on the nature and implications of the recent currency devaluation Just days after the introduction of the new economic measures by the government of Nicolás Maduro on 17 August this year, there is a sense of complete confusion and helplessness in Venezuelan society, both among the...
CAMEROON Conversion in prison Sr Orencia, a Pallottine sister, works for the Church in Cameroon. Since 2009, she has been working as a prison chaplain. She visits prisoners twice a week at Bafoussam Central Prison. The prison is comprised of a women’s ward, an adult men’s ward and a youth ward. There are about...
SYRIA Kurds close several Christian schools “The plan to oust Christians from the region is being executed”- Archbishop Hindo “For years I have been saying that the Kurds are trying to eliminate the Christian presence in this part of Syria,” the Syriac Catholic Archbishop Jacques Behnam Hindo of Hasakah-Nisibis, which is located in...
Our “throwaway culture” is threatening human society says Cardinal Tagle In his opening speech at the World Meeting of Families 2018 in Dublin Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila, Philippines, brought together Pope Francis’s documents on the care of creation (Laudato Si’) and family and relationships (Amoris Laetitia). He spoke in the context of...
VENEZUELA Priests in the frontier zone – instruments of spiritual comfort “Many people arrive here weeping, with serious problems, anxious or saddened because they are leaving their country, because they have nothing to eat, or can’t get medicines, and our mission is to comfort them with the light of the Word of God and...
PAKISTAN Hopes of religious minorities grow with the next government of Imran Khan ACN MaltaAfter winning the recent general elections in Pakistan, renowned former cricketer Imran Khan, the political leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), publicly announced that he wants to follow the legacy of Mohammad Ali Jinnah. Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, had a...
