Father David Neuhaus, Jesuit and head of the Hebrew speaking Catholic community in Israel, on Christian ways out of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians By Oliver Maksan Father David, is Israel in Gaza fighting for a just cause or is it committing a genocide? Both positions have their supporters also amongst Christians. Those […]
Oliver Maksan, Middle East correspondent for ACN, speaking about the situation in the Holy Land (July 15th, 9 am) Interview conducted by Maria Lozano, ACN International What sparked the current conflict between Israel and Gaza? Well, initially it began with the kidnapping of three Jewish teens and the killing which followed in mid-June close […]
“The Kurdish government has opened the borders to Christians “ by Oliver Maksan Adapted by Amanda Bridget Griffin, ACN Canada ACN: Your Excellency, how many refugees have sought refuge in your diocese? We are at present looking after about 400 Christian families who have come to us since the beginning of June from the […]
Yousif Mirkis, the Chaldean Archbishop of Kirkuk, in an interview with journalist Oliver Maksan for Aid to the Church in Need Aid to the Church in Need: Your Excellency, do you fear the end of Christianity in Iraq? Quite definitely. We are in the process of disappearing, just as the Christians in Turkey, Saudi Arabia […]
The advance of the ISIS warriors has left thousands of Iraqi Christians homeless – The Catholic Church is helping Christians and Muslims By Oliver Maksan, ACN International Adapted by Amanda Bridget Griffin, ACN Canada “Ahlan wa sahlan. Welcome,” is Archbishop Amel Nona’s friendly greeting to an anxious looking veiled woman who enters his office. He […]
The Head of the Chaldean-Catholic Church fears Christian exodus in Iraq Interview with Oliver Maksan of the international Catholic pastoral charity “Aid to the Church in Need” in the Middle East on the current situation in Iraq. The interview was conducted on Saturday, 28.6.2014, in Ankawa near Erbil. Question: Have you any hope […]
Maria Lozano, ACN International On the night of 14–15 April 2014, approximately 275 girls were kidnapped from a Government Secondary School in the town of Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria. Boko Haram admitted responsibility for the kidnappings. Aid to the Church in Need spoke to Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama of Jos, President of the Catholic Bishops […]
“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 […]
