At least 12 priests and five religious sisters were murdered in 2022 while fulfilling their mission. Nigeria was one of the most dangerous countries in which to serve the Church, but China, and Nicaragua also had many cases of harassment. According to information collected by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Nigeria was the […]
A leading bishop in Mozambique has revealed that extremists disguised in military uniform gathered a crowd of people together, before separating the Christians and slitting their throats one by one. Speaking to Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Bishop Alberto Vera Aréjula of Nacala revealed the details of the gruesome attack which […]
In the wake of the murder of an Italian nun, the bishop of Pemba, where the Islamist insurgency began, says that poverty and corruption are at the root of the problem. (Cover photo: Internally Displaced People in the north of Mozambique). In an interview with Pontifical Charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), which […]
On Tuesday night, September 6, an Italian religious sister, aged 83, was brutally murdered in an armed attack on the Catholic Mission of Chipene in the Diocese of Nacala. Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) deplores the fact that religion is playing a more prominent role in attacks by Islamist terrorists. Sister Maria de […]
Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) increases aid While the new bishop of Pemba is asking the world not to forget about the situation which has caused over 4,000 deaths and led to 800,000 displaced people, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has committed to a new emergency support package for these internally […]
Press Release – Montreal, April 21, 2022 – For nearly two months, the war in Ukraine has been in the media spotlight. A critical concern, but one that runs the risk of overshadowing the distress experienced elsewhere in the world. “The global shock of the Russian army’s invasion of Ukraine has affected us all deeply,” […]
Bela Vista neglected parish presbytery is in urgent need of repairs Today, almost 30 years after the country was devastated by a savage civil war, lasting from 1977 to 1992, large areas of Mozambique have still not recovered from the bloody conflict. Not only did the country suffer widespread material devastation, but also profound spiritual […]
In an exclusive interview with the Portuguese national office of the international Catholic pastoral and Pontifical charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN International), Bishop Antonio Juliasse, the apostolic administrator of the diocese of Pemba, in the province of Cabo Delgado in northern Mozambique, describes the situation his diocese has been going through over […]
For some years now the province of Cabo Delgado, in the far north of Mozambique, has been suffering greatly from a wave of terrorist violence that has created a climate of war and uprooted over 700,000 people from their homes. And, sadly, news of burned-out villages and barbarous beheadings of individuals has become commonplace in […]
ACN supports the refugee work of the Church with $240,000 in emergency aid as Northern Mozambique is hit with one crisis after another: terror, COVID and cholera
