A priest’s testimony of how religious sisters in Venezuela cared for him until the end Spanish priest Father Alfonso Delgado, who arrived in Venezuela in the seventies with a group of fellow missionaries, gradually found himself alone as the years passed and his companions passed away. However, he found a home among the Sisters of …
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Help better equip the workshop of a contemplative community In the year 1212, the young and beautiful Chiara Offreduccio di Favarone slipped quietly out of her wealthy parental home, leaving behind all her loved ones, all her safety and security, and all her comfort and wealth in order to embrace a life of poverty, chastity, …
During his visit to the international headquarters of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Cardinal Désiré Tsarahazana emphasized the urgency of an authentic and committed faith. In the face of many social problems which for a long time have undermined Madagascar, he insists on the importance of pastoral work so that the Gospel may …
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Subsistence aid for three religious sisters in a poor parish Most people tend to think of the Dominican Republic as a holiday paradise, with idyllic sandy beaches. And many are astonished to discover that there is in fact great poverty there. The west of the country, bordering on its crisis-ridden neighbour Haiti, is an almost …
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A minibus for the interdiocesan seminary Equatorial Guinea is a former Spanish colony on the west coast of Central Africa. It is a relatively small country with an area of a little over 28,000 km² and a population of almost two million people. It has immense oil reserves and is therefore by no means one …
Renovation of the Coptic Catholic seminary in Maadi In Maadi, a suburb of Cairo, 28 young men are currently training for the priesthood at Egypt’s one and only Coptic Catholic seminary. They come from different parts of the country. Abba Romany Fawzy, the rector of the seminary explains: “The mission of the seminary is to …
Becoming a pilgrim, a joyous experience! Montreal, Thursday, May 4, 2023 – From October 25 to November 6, 2023, Aid to the Church in Need Canada (ACN), in collaboration with tour operator Spiritours, is organizing a bilingual Marian pilgrimage to France, Spain, and Portugal, to some of the most well-known pilgrimage sites in the world, …
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PRESS RELEASE Königstein-Montreal, February 6, 2023—“According to the first information we have received from our partners, the February 6 earthquakes that devastated parts of Turkey have also affected Christian communities in Syria,” says Marie-Claude Lalonde, National Director of Aid to the Church in Need Canada (ACN). “We ask all our benefactors to pray for all …
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