ACN Project of the Week – Peru 500 Bibles for a prison apostolate By ACN Projects Department, ACN International Adapted by ACN Canada Published to the web March 18, 2020 As in many other parts of the world, in Latin America the prisons are hopelessly overcrowded and conditions are extremely hard. For example, the […]
Honduras is the second largest country in Central America. With the exception of those countries where there are ongoing wars, it has the unenviable distinction of having the second highest number of murders anywhere, second only to its close neighbour, El Salvador. Violence is an ever-present reality, with robberies, murders and abductions a daily occurrence. […]
The Fédération Africaine d’Action Familiale (FAAF, or African Family Life Federation) is an initiative for the support of healthy families and the protection of life. It involves doctors of various disciplines, theologians, priests, religious and lay pastoral workers. Its aim is to support families and help them to tackle their problems, offering Africa-friendly, family-friendly and […]
India Help for the formation of 15 novices of the Holy Spirit Sisters The Holy Spirit Sisters are a congregation founded in 1950 in Germany. They work above all in pastoral care and their role is to support the priests in their work. Right from the start it was the desire of their founder […]
Kazakhstan Books for the seminary in Karaganda Kazakhstan is a vast country, covering an area of well over 1 million square miles (2.7 million km²), or the equivalent of more than a quarter of the size of the entire United States! Yet it has a population of just 18 million. A former Soviet republic, […]
Brazil Help for the formation of 50 young religious Sisters It was only 30 years ago that the religious Institute the Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matarà was founded in Argentina. Yet since then it has spread throughout the world, with 160 convents in 35 different countries on all five continents […]
Success story in Peru Help for the training of 19 seminarians in the Amazon region The apostolic vicariate of Yurimaguas in the east of Peru is situated for the most part in the Amazon rainforest, in an area that is home to various different indigenous groups. The 224,000 or so Catholics in this […]
Lebanon Formation of three priests from the archdiocese of Baalbek Not so long ago Lebanon was the only country in the Middle East with a Christian majority. In recent years this has changed, however, with increasing numbers of Christians leaving the country. Already during the terrible civil war in the country between 1975 and […]
Sierra Leone Teaching materials for the minor seminary in the diocese of Makeni Sierra Leone is still struggling to emerge from its state of near-permanent crisis. The consequences of the terrible civil war, from 1991 to 2002, are still all too painfully evident to this day. During this civil war, approximately half the population […]
Bosnia “We are here for the children that need us.” When Katarina leafs through the photo albums from the last two decades with Sisters Admirata and Manda, her joy is tinged by melancholy. The photographs keep memories of Katarina’s happy childhood days alive. However, the realization that the sheltered days of her youth will soon […]
