The pontifical international charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has announced a special aid package for priests and religious in Sri Lanka who are suffering the effects of a very serious economic and social crisis. “The economic situation in the country is very serious,” says Msgr. Valence Mendis, Bishop of Kandy and Apostolic […]
Pontifical Charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN-AED) denounces yet another terrorist attack in Burkina Faso. During the night of July 3 to 4, 2022, more than 20 Burkinabè were killed during an attack in Bourasso in the Diocese of Nouna (northwest). At least 22 people, perhaps more, were murdered during a terrorist attack […]
A presbytery for a new parish Dinajpur is one of the poorest of the eight Catholic dioceses in Bangladesh. Like elsewhere in this overwhelmingly Muslim country, Catholics represent only a tiny minority of the population and also belong to ethnic minorities. Thus, most of the faithful are doubly disadvantaged: both on account of their Christian […]
“Priests have become an endangered species.” Facing a wave of kidnappings, murders and violence, Nigerian priests reject violence as an answer and call on prayer. According to data compiled by the pontifical international charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), at least 18 priests have been kidnapped in Nigeria since the beginning of 2022, […]
Help for the formation of 10 novices and 43 seminarians of the South Kerala Province It was in 1981 that the Discalced Carmelites first established their regional South Kerala Province in India. At that time, there were only 10 Carmelite friars and one monastery. Today, the Province is comprised of 112 priests and eight […]
ACN is supporting the reconstruction of the priests’ residence, destroyed during the war Although most of the fighting is taking place in Eastern Ukraine, Russian forces have continued to attack the west of the country. Many people, including the priests who oversee the Shrine of our Lady of Rudky, some 50 kilometres outside of Lviv, […]
Two Mexican Jesuit priests, Fr. Joaquín Mora, 78, and Fr. Javier Campos, 80, were murdered on June 20 by armed men inside the church of the village of Cerocahui, in the Tarahumara Mountains, Chihuahua State, Mexico. They were providing refuge to Pedro Palma, 60, a tour guide who was fleeing drug traffickers, and who was […]
Renovation of a building for use as a pastoral centre The Diocese of Kohima lies in the state of Nagaland, in remote and underdeveloped Northeast India. It is home to diverse Indigenous tribes, each of which has its own language. Most live from what they can glean from the soil, many are unemployed, and the […]
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 […]
Congolese people saddened by cancellation, but sympathetic to pope’s pain “Postponed, not cancelled. That’s the key word,” says Maxime François-Marsal, head of projects for the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This massive country was counting on Pope Francis to help heal the wounds of an apparently never-ending war, and to challenge political leaders to stop […]
