“People are on the edge of starvation and, if nothing happens, people will fall into that situation” – Msgr Roko Taban Mousa by John Pontifex, ACN UK Adapted by AB Griffin, ACN Canada Entire communities in South Sudan are at risk of starvation, according to a Church leader, who says fighting continues despite a ceasefire. […]
Ukraine Bishop denounces violence against protestors John Pontifex, ACN International Adapted by AB Griffin, ACN Canada Montreal, Monday January 27, 2014 – According to a local bishop, the “brutal” crackdown on demonstrators in Ukraine is acting as a recruitment agent for the protest movement. “It is hard to imagine a more prayerful [protest] in 21st […]
By Reinhard Backes, ACN International Adapted by AB Griffin, ACN Canada To the Spiritan Fathers working on the two main islands of Unguja (or Zanzibar) and Pemba, which together make up Zanzibar and which since 1964 have also formed part of the East African nation of Tanzania, the words of Father Liebermann have been a […]
Dear friends and faithful of the Holy Land, Christmas leads the eyes of the world to look towards Bethlehem. It is from here, in the midst of conflict and violence tearing our Middle East apart, that the mystery of Christmas gently rises and spreads throughout the world. At this time, we cannot forget in our […]
In view of the unusually severe onset of winter in the Middle East, the President of Caritas Lebanon, Simon Faddoul, is very concerned about the situation of the Syrian refugees in Lebanon. Talking to the international Catholic pastoral charity “Aid to the Church in Need” (ACN), he said on Saturday: “The temperature is around the […]
Introduction by Maria Lozano, ACN International Adapted by AG Griffin, ACN Canada The following is a reference document following Bishop Kyrillos William Samaan’s visit to the EU institutions in Brussels, a visit supported and organized by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) (September 17- 19, 2013). ACN recently received this document from Bishop Kyrillos […]
Christine du Coudray, head of the African section of the international Catholic pastoral charity “Aid to the Church in Need”, speaks about the dramatic situation in the Central African Republic. The interview was conducted by Eva-Maria Kolmann You have welcomed the United Nations Security Council resolution which opens the way for intervention in […]
The situation in Iraq has deteriorated; there is a lack of security. Patriarch Sako was born in Northern Iraq in 1948. At the end of January 2013, the former Archbishop of Kirkuk was appointed Patriarch of Babylon. The new Patriarch chose the name Louis Raphaël I. Interviewed by Reinhard Backes, ACN International Eminence, for months […]
