Vatican hospital will care for seriously ill refugee children Bambino Gesù Hospital of the Holy See and the United National High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) have agreed to provide badly needed care to Jordanian and vulnerable refugee children with serious illnesses. The partnership will ensure that more than 300 children receive life-saving surgery in...
SYRIA Strengthening faith and hope through sport in Aleppo The pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is supporting a project for the rebuilding of a multipurpose sports centre for the Armenian Christian community Josué Villalón reports from Aleppo: “The area of East Aleppo has not attracted so much media attention as...
GUINEA – Church flourishes again after years of suppression by dictator Guinea is an overwhelmingly Islamic country in which roughly 85% of the population of 11.6 million people are Muslims. Christians make up only around 8%, while the remainder of the population is adherents of traditional African religions. For decades this country of West Africa...
CAMEROON – “I only want to be healed so that I can become a priest.” Day after day, little Jean-Thierry made ice from twenty litres of lemon juice to sell on the street. He never even took a tiny taste of it himself, no matter how dry his throat became from the heat and the...
BRAZIL – ACN Bibles in the indigenous Macuxi language help strengthen the faith The indigenous Macuxi people today number around 15,000, of whom roughly two thirds currently live in the Amazon area of northern Brasil, close to the frontier with Venezuela and Guyana. The remaining third live in Guyana itself. The Macuxi came into contact...
SYRIA – “Your generosity is helping us to realise that we are not alone” It is six months now since the bombs stopped falling on the city of Aleppo in Syria. Although in the distance, at night time, you can still hear explosions in some still disputed zones on the outskirts of this large city...
NIGERIA Supporting widows and orphans of Boko Haram victims Vital assistance from a leading Catholic charity is to be provided for Nigerian widows and orphans who lost loved ones in violence perpetrated by Islamist militants Boko Haram. Aid to the Church in Need has agreed a £63,000 (€70,000) package of food parcels and schooling...
BANGLADESH – Priests in Mymensingh can now reach the scattered faithful on new motorcycles Catholics make up only a tiny minority in Bangladesh, are currently in which some 90% of its over 144 million strong population are Muslims. The Catholic Church is relatively young in this particular country of Southeast Asia, which was formerly known...
YEMEN – Kidnapped Indian priest Fr Tom is still alive Abdulmalik Abduljalil Al-Mekhlafi, Yemen’s minister for foreign affairs, told Indian officials during a recent visit to New Delhi that Fr Tom is still alive. The official statement said Al-Mekhlafi, who is also the deputy prime minister, informed the government that Father Thomas Uzhunnalil is “alive...
“We must evangelise the culture” – Interview with Archbishop Michael Didi Archbishop Michael Didi Adgum Mangoria has been in charge of the archdiocese of Khartoum since November 2016. The international pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need visited recently Sudan. During the trip, ACN spoke to the Archbishop Michael Didi about the situation...
