Aid to the Church in Need in Iraq Rebuilding with The Pope’s Lamborghini profits! Montreal, February 26th – Thanks to a donation of 300 000 dollars from the Holy Father, following the auctioning of the Lamborghini that was given to him last year, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) will be able to fund two […]
Syria An action plan to enable thousands of Christians to return to their homes in the Syrian city of Homs was agreed in a house-repair program involving Church leaders and a leading Catholic charity, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). by John Pontifex, ACN-International At the meeting in Homs, the leaders of five Church […]
Israel – Haïfa Success Story: Repairs to the convent chapel of the Carmelite Sisters in Haifa The Carmelite Sisters in Haifa are very happy now. Thanks to the generosity of our benefactors, ACN was able to give them 45 000 dollars so that they could finally repair their convent chapel. This church, which is dedicated to […]
CAMEROON – CONVERSION IN PRISON ACN renovates the chapel in Bafoussam prison Sister Orencya, a Pallottine Sister, gives her service for the Church in Cameroon. She has been a missionary in the prison environment. For nearly a decade, she has been visiting prisoners twice a week at Bafoussam Central Prison. This prison is composed of a […]
An In-depth Story from Columbia A story of forgiveness without limits PASTORA MIRA GARCÍA, through acts of Christian love and forgiveness in the face of hatred and violence, has become one of Colombia’s best-known women of faith as her nation is still grappling with the aftermath of decades of unrelenting violence. The past 60 […]
Success Story… in India! Consecration of the village chapel, in West Vipparu May 5 2018 was a day of great celebration for the Catholic faithful in West Vipparu, for it was on this day that their beautiful new chapel was finally consecrated after 16 long years of waiting. Up to then, all they had was […]
Mozambique Rebuilding two chapels destroyed by a cyclone In January 2017, the coastal region of northern Mozambique was battered for five long days by a severe cyclone. The tropical storm brought heavy rainfall and devastated large swaths of the countryside in two coastal provinces of this country in southeast Africa – already one of the […]
Slovakia Success Story: Help to complete construction of a new church in Cizatrice The parish of Kecerovce lies within the archdiocese of Kosice in the eastern part of Slovakia, not far from the Hungarian border. It also serves seven outlying villages, each with its own church. Thanks to the generosity of our benefactors, we have […]
Syria The 300 Christians of Krak des Chevaliers, a World Heritage Site Father George Maamary, parish priest of the Church of the Assumption, which is close to the fortress, is asking our help to rebuild their church so that the families can return there soon ACN (Josué Villalón, Qalat’al Hosn).- Qalat’al Hosn is a village […]
Iraq: “If the families do not return to their homes, then Christianity will disappear” Father Salar Kajo is one of the priests who have accompanied the over 120,000 Christians who were forced to flee their homes following the invasion by Daesh (Islamic State/IS), and who have spent the last three years as refugees in […]
