ACN Feature Story—Algeria In the footsteps of Charles de Foucauld The difficult challenge of maintaining a female Christian presence in Tamanrasset By Christophe Fontaine, ACN International Adapted by: Amanda Bridget Griffin, ACN Canada On May 27 of this year, Pope Francis recognized the attribution of a second miracle to Blessed Charles de Foucauld […]
ACN Feature Story — 80 years of the “Miracle of Vinkt” Hate, Conquered with Love By Volker Niggewöhner, for ACN International Adapted by Amanda Bridget Griffin, ACN Canada On 27 May 1940, the village of Vinkt, located near the Belgian city of Ghent, was the scene of one of the great crimes committed on the […]
Burkina Faso No stop to terrorism during this pandemic by Maria Lozano, ACN International Adapted by Amanda Bridget Griffin Published to the web May 19, 2020 The terrorist threat, which has affected five regions of northern and eastern Burkina Faso in particular, has been “eclipsed by the Covid-19 pandemic,” according to a number of different […]
Catholic Church in Cambodia: Thirty years of rebirth by Christophe Lafontaine, ACN International Adapted by Amanda Bridget Griffin Published to the web May 5, 2020 While the Khmer Rouge was in power in Cambodia, the party killed about 1.7 million people, including nearly half of all Catholics. But then, thirty years ago, the devastated […]
India COLOUR AND CONSOLATION IN THE TIME OF COVID 19 By Maria Lozano, ACN International Adapted by Amanda Bridget Griffin, ACN Canada Published on the web April 9, 2020 India is currently under a total lockdown as a result of COVID-19. Millions of low-paid migrant workers have suddenly found themselves unemployed as a […]
Central African Republic “Don’t abandon Africa” – Father Gaetán Kabasha’s dramatic appeal on the Covid-19 epidemic Letter Father Gaetán Kabasha to the world and Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) Original Portuguese, ACN Portugal to English, Felipe Bezerra, ACN Canada and adapted by ACN Canada Published on the web March 27,2020 “Do not abandon […]
Syria Nine Years of war Religious Sister living in Syria talks about the country’s tragic conditions March 15th marked the ninth anniversary of the start of the conflict in Syria. “The situation is terrible,” said Sister Maria Lúcia Ferreira, a sister from the Mar Yakub Monastery in Qara, in the Christian region of Qalamoun, in […]
Iraq Batnaya is back Text by John Pontifex, ACN International Adapted by Amanda Bridget Griffin, ACN Canada Posted on line March 18, 2020 Catholic charity to help rebuild flattened Christian village A massive program has just received the go ahead to help revive a Christian village in Iraq, which was almost completely razed to the […]
ACN Feature Story – Senegal Memories and the vision of three bishops By Robert Lalonde for ACN Canada Translated by Traductions Julie Bourbeau, Adapted by Amanda Bridget Griffin Published on the web March 12, 2020 During a visit to Senegal, Robert Lalonde, a regular contributor to Aid to the Church in Need, spoke with […]
Iraq Batnaya rises again by Irmina Nockiewicz & Maria Lozano , ACN International Adapted by ACN Canada Published on the web February 25, 2020 Batnaya is a town in the north of Iraq, some 24 km from Mosul. Before ISIS arrived there were 950 families living here, all of them Chaldean Catholics. It was […]
