Bahrain: The Cathedral of Our Lady of Arabia was consecrated today on December 10 The Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia which covers Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia has an estimated 2.5 million Catholics who are mostly migrant workers from different nations and diverse cultures. To provide them with pastoral care the late Bishop Camillo Ballin started […]
Help to renovate and enlarge a chapel for tea plantation workers The parish of Maliboda Daraniyagala includes 53 Catholic families who work as day labourers on the tea plantations of the region. Like their mainly Hindu fellow plantation workers, they are originally from India. The Catholic Church is caring for the welfare of the plantation […]
Support for a centre working with victims of domestic violence For almost 30 years now, in accordance with the heartfelt wish of Pope Saint John Paul II, ACN has been helping to promote fraternal dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Russian Orthodox Church. The historic meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow in […]
The parish of Massiapo sits at an altitude of over 10,000 feet in the Andes misty rainforest of Puno. Life is already extremely difficult here, and the pandemic has made it worse for the people here—as it has for the work of the Church. Many planned events and activities had to be postponed or even […]
Building a Pastoral Centre to Support the Work of Sisters in Burundi The small nation of Burundi in Central-East Africa is one of the poorest and least developed countries in the world. Its recent history has repeatedly been plagued by political crises, massacres, bloody unrest and conflict in which hundreds of thousands of people have […]
A new chapel for the Catholics of Saint Joseph’s outstation in the village of Mathotho The Catholic sub-parish of Saint Joseph in Mathotho is an outstation of Nkhate parish. The village is situated in the south of Malawi in the diocese of Chikwawa, in a remote and underdeveloped area of the hill country. The people […]
Both Catholic and Orthodox churches in Russia through dialogue have discovered one common preoccupation. The desire to help suffering addicts. One man, Fr. Sergij Belkov, has developed a tried and true method in Sapjornoe that many others are adopting. His success rate with addicts is so great that extensions are now needed on the Orthodox rehabilitation centre to house all those in need, programs and much more. ACN has been supporting this excellent initiative right from the start. Read more about it in our Project of the Week.
Construction of a security wall to protect against terrorist attacks In recent years there have been a succession of terrorist attacks on Christian churches in Pakistan. A very real danger of further attacks looms. As a result, it is imperative that Christians strengthen the security measures around their churches and parish centres. In fact, these […]
ACN is helping to rebuild the Sisters’ convent on the ninth floor of the hospital building. “Oh my God!” – exclaims Sister Nicolas Akiki, the director of the hospital. This is the first time she has been into this part of the hospital since it was devastated by the explosion of August 4, in the […]
“Our mission is to bring light into the darkness we are living” ACN supports the reconstruction of the Church of the Saviour in Beirut “Our Hiroshima.” This is how one survivor describes the tragic explosion of August 4 in which she lost her house and home. “It was worse than a war, because it happened […]
