Supporting 76 African seminarians Nigeria is a dangerous country for Christians, and especially for priests. Over the past 10 years, more than 150 priests have been abducted and over a dozen killed. And yet the number of vocations has not declined. In fact, it is increasing, with many young men wishing to become a diocesan …
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ACN Success Story – Sri Lanka
A minibus for pastoral work The Diocese of Mannar is situated in the northwest of Sri Lanka. A while ago, we received an appeal for help from the Vavuniya deanery, where a vehicle was urgently needed for pastoral work. The deanery includes 10 separate parishes, each of which serves several smaller villages. Altogether, there are …
ACN Project of the Week – Ukraine
Tent for pastoral events in Kyiv and Zhytomyr As a result of the war, most people in Ukraine are suffering fear, trauma, and psychological stress, while many are torn by feelings of hatred and rage. So many families have been torn apart and may never be reunited. The healing of souls is just as important …
ACN Project of the Week – DRC
Help for the training of 221 seminarians in the Archdiocese of Kinshasa Almost one third of all the seminarians in the world today are from the continent of Africa. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for example, the number of priestly vocations is gratifyingly large. In the Archdiocese of Kinshasa, for example, there are …
ACN Success Story – Colombia
Two motors to support pastoral work in Guapi The Apostolic Vicariate of Guapi lies in the far south-west of Colombia, near the Pacific Ocean. The population here is mainly a mixture of Afro-Colombians and Indigenous Peoples. There is extreme poverty and widespread violence, and ever since the 1980s, illegal drug growing and trafficking have flourished, …
ACN Project of the Week – Brazil
Support the training of seminarians in the Diocese of Rio Branco The Diocese of Rio Branco lies in the west of Brazil. Large sections of this area of roughly 103,000 km² are covered in rainforest. A remote region with vast distances and many settlements only accessible via water, it has a population of around 700,000 …
ACN Success Story – India
A new Marian shrine in Balasore In November 2023, the cathedral parish of Balasore in eastern India celebrated the Golden Jubilee of its founding. At that time, the desire was born within the community to establish a Marian shrine within the cathedral grounds. There was previously no place where the faithful could gather to express …
ACN Success Story – Bolivia
A new chapel for a rural parish The parish of Saint Francis Xavier is in a very rural region of the Diocese of San Ignacio de Velasco, in the tropical eastern part of Bolivia. The people here are very poor and live mainly off traditional subsistence farming, and the region is largely undeveloped. Juancito is …
ACN Project of the Week – Iraq
Subsistence aid for four monks in Karamles The ancient city (today a small town) of Karamles (or Karemlesh) is 29 kilometres south-east of Mosul in the Nineveh Plains region of northern Iraq. It is a mainly Christian town, with the majority belonging to the Chaldean Catholic Church. In August 2014, Karamles was overtaken by the …
ACN Success Story – India
A newly constructed presbytery for a young parish The parish of Chondonpara in the Diocese of Tura in eastern India is still very new, having only been founded in October 2024. The new presbytery was inaugurated at the same time, thanks to the generosity of our benefactors, who donated $60,000 for this purpose. They celebrated …