In recent times the severe economic and social crisis that is affecting many countries, combined with the existing social inequalities they suffer, has triggered a disastrous fragmentation of society. All these factors have a direct repercussion on the work of the police and security forces, who have been subjected to intense criticism on account of […]
In recent times the severe economic and social crisis that is affecting many countries, combined with the existing social inequalities they suffer, has triggered a disastrous fragmentation of society. All these factors have a direct repercussion on the work of the police and security forces, who have been subjected to intense criticism on account of […]
Today, missionaries from India are being sent to serve all over the world—most of them to Europe, but some also to the African continent.
“Barring a miracle, we’re going to have to abandon Cuba” The Friars of the Order of Our Lady of Mercy (mercedarios/Mercedarians) in the parish of Jesús del Monte, Havana, are struggling with poverty and the aftermath of last year’s hurricane. The night of January 27, 2019, is one that Fray Gabriel Avila Luna will not […]
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 […]
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 […]
