Mass Offerings for 113 Priests in the Diocese of Tezpur The diocese of Tezpur lies in the state of Assam, in the far northeast of India, a state well known for its tea production. The 195,000 or so Catholics here make up only a tiny minority of the 84 million people in the state. Most […]
Bishop Juan José Aguirre asks for prayers to bring peace to his country and to his people Happy New Year! These are words we commonly hear at this time of year. And they were also the first words addressed by Bishop Juan José Aguirre of Bangassou to all at the international Catholic pastoral charity Aid […]
An interview with the parish priest of the Maronite Catholic Cathedral in Beirut Lebanon is often held up as a model for the entire Middle East, not least because of the comparative stability of inter-faith relations within the country. Yet the balance has shifted and become increasingly unstable after more and more Christians have left […]
Aid to the Church in Need takes stock of the situation of Christians around the world during 2020 Coronavirus, terrorism and war – and once again a growing level of persecution. The year 2020 has been a difficult one for many Christians around the world. At the end of the year, Thomas Heine-Geldern, the executive […]
A survivor looks back ten years after the attack on Coptic Christians Ten years ago on New Year’s Eve, the life of Coptic Orthodox Christian Kiro Khalil, then 20 years old, was “turned upside down,” as he describes it himself. The expression does little to convey just how horrific the experience was that the young […]
“I don’t have anyone…” There was a time when Beirut was known as the ‘Paris of the Middle East’, and the memory of those “glamorous” times is all the more painful today, given the profound crisis that Lebanon is currently experiencing. For the financial crisis, with the banks on the brink of bankruptcy, the devastatingly […]
“Your support makes the families stay in the country,” Syrian Catholic Archbishop of Aleppo says. The celebration will be broadcast live. On the 20th anniversary of his Episcopal ordination, Monsignor Antoine Chahda, Syrian Catholic Archbishop of Aleppo, invites all the heads of Churches in the city to a Holy Mass for the intentions of all […]
The Diocese of Carupano mourns the death of 27 people in a shipwreck in Guiria The lifeless bodies of the castaways are lined up on a Güiria dock. One next to the other, swollen by the water, faces deformed, eaten by the fish, half-naked. A macabre image of the tragedy washed up on Venezuela’s shores. […]
After two years living as a captive in the desert, somewhere between Niger and Mali, the Italian missionary Father Pierluigi Maccalli, who was received by the Pope on November 9, 2020, recalled his first impressions in an interview conducted by the SMA Media Centre a few hours after his liberation. Aid to the Church in […]
Press Release – For Immediate Release More than $250,000 is the amount that the benefactors of Aid to the Church in Need Canada (ACN) have been sending to disaster victims in Lebanon since mid-September. And now more than ever, we must continue! Annie Desrosiers, Head of Philanthropy for ACN Canada, has been praising benefactors from […]
