Flood of conversions to Christianity in the Islamic world A silent upheaval is taking place in many countries worldwide – thousands of Muslims are converting to Christianity. Even more surprising, they are doing so knowing that they will be rejected by their families, marginalized and even killed. Apostasy (giving up the Muslim faith) is...
NIGER – US missionary kidnapped by armed jihadists An American missionary working in Niger was forced to strip down to his underwear and then kidnapped from his home by armed men. 55-year-old Jeffery Woodke from California is a longtime aid worker with Youth With A Mission (YWAM) charity. He has spent the last 25 years...
PAKISTAN – All Christian TV networks closed down for lack of permits 11 Christian television channels in Pakistan broadcasting in Urdu were ordered to stop transmitting, leaving the country’s 2.8 million Christians with no public media presence for the first time in nearly two decades. The Pakistani Media Regulatory Authority said they were illegal” and...
ACN Malta thanks children who took part in Rosary for Peace on 18 Oct ACN Malta would like to thank all the children, schools and organisations who joined in the Prayer for Peace event by reciting the Rosary on 18 October. Special thanks goes to the school heads and teachers for all their hard...
Will Pope’s visit to Georgia bring closer relations between Catholics and Orthodox? It is widely thought that the success of the recent Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church was strongly influenced by Pope Francis’ meeting with the Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow, Kirill, in Cuba last February. The...
‘Without education Syrian children will be the next generation of IS’ Bearing samples of drawing and messages gathered from 1.2 million Muslim and Christian children from schools in Homs, Aleppo and Damascus, Syria, an appeal for peace was brought by representatives of the three main churches in Syria to policymakers at the highest levels...
CUBA – “We have neither gold nor silver, but what we have, we give” Hurricane Matthew leaves a trail of destruction and tears in eastern Cuba “Really, I don’t know how to begin to describe what we’ve been through in the last few days”, writes Bishop Wilfredo Pino Estévez of the diocese of Guantánamo-Baracoa in...
NIGERIA – Boko Haram free 21 kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls Boko Haram militants have released 21 of the 270 girls abducted two years ago from a school in Chibok, north-east Nigeria. The abduction was part of Boko Haram’s fight to establish a fundamentalist Islamic state in the region, drawing global attention to the jihadist insurgency. According to...
PAKISTAN – Asia Bibi’s final appeal adjourned The most notorious case involving Pakistan’s blasphemy laws has been adjourned. One of the three-judge bench, Justice Iqbal Hameed-ur-Rehman, told the court he had to excuse himself from the Asia Bibi appeal because of a conflict of interest. “I was a part of the bench that was hearing...
SYRIA -“The country is destroyed” – interview with Fr Halemba Father Andrzej Halemba, the Director of Projects in the Middle East International for Pontifical Foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), recently returned from a trip to Syria. In an interview with ACN he talks about the current situation in this war-torn country....
