For the past seven months in southern Kaduna State, in north-central Nigeria, there have been incessant attacks on Christian communities, killing 178 people. In a statement by the Catholic bishops of Kaduna Province sent to the pontifical charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), the bishops said that ‘dark clouds of violence have enveloped our […]
Maira Shahbaz, the kidnapped Pakistani Christian girl at the recent center of international attention, has escaped from the home of Mohamad Nakash, the man who according to the Lahore High Court, is her legitimate husband. After her escape, she went to a police station to give her testimony, in which she also declared that she […]
“We cannot close our eyes to this reality,” states ACN International Executive President Thomas Heine-Geldern Following an unprecedented increase of violence against religious communities and people belonging to religious minorities, the UN General Assembly proclaimed August 22 as the International Day Commemorating the Victims of Violence Based on Religion or Belief in 2019. But according […]
The campaign to free a 14-year-old Christian girl in Pakistan from the clutches of a man who abducted, held the young girl hostage in his home and forced her into marriage, lies in tatters after Lahore High Court unexpectedly decided in his favour. On Tuesday August 4, Judge Raja Muhammad Shahid Abbasi overturned an earlier […]
PAKISTAN The case of an abducted girl, 14, taken to High Court by her Christian family By John Pontifex, ACN International Adapted by Amanda Bridget Griffin, ACN Canada Published on the web, June 22, 2020 A Christian family in Pakistan has gone to the High Court in their fight to win back their 14-year-old […]
Burkina Faso No stop to terrorism during this pandemic by Maria Lozano, ACN International Adapted by Amanda Bridget Griffin Published to the web May 19, 2020 The terrorist threat, which has affected five regions of northern and eastern Burkina Faso in particular, has been “eclipsed by the Covid-19 pandemic,” according to a number of different […]
India Christian released on bail after 11 years in jail Accusations were false by Anto Akkara, for ACN USA Adapted by ACN Canada Published online March 2, 2020 BHASKAR SUNAMAJHI (43) is one of seven Christians falsely accused and convicted of the August 2008 murder of a Hindu leader in the Kandhamal district […]
Asia Bibi in France An encounter with an icon By Thomas Oswald for ACN International Adapted by Amanda Bridget Griffin, ACN Canada Published online February 28, 2020 Asia Bibi has requested political asylum while in France. This Pakistani Christian woman, whose fate ACN has followed closely since she was first sentenced in 2010, recently […]
Egypt – Five years on Shrine honours 21 Coptic martyrs Special collaboration – Engy Magdy Adapted by ACN Canada Published on the web February 14, 2020 The shrine to the 21 Christian men beheaded by ISIS on a Libyan beach in February 2015, will hold an exhibition on Feb. 15 honouring […]
India Religious Sister and sexual assault survivor rebounds to ‘bring her people hope’ by Anto Akkara, ACN International Adapted by Amanda Bridget Griffin for ACN Canada Posted to the web January 15, 2020 In August 2008, the Odisha state’s Kandhamal district witnessed the worst eruption of Christian persecution in modern Indian history. It was […]
