Montreal, November 19, 2024 – Red Wednesday (Mercredi Rouge) will take place tomorrow from coast to coast. To help you better understand this international event, here is some additional information. Event Description: In Canada A map of activities related to Red Wednesday is available on the event’s home page at: www.acn-canada.org/rw. While this non-exhaustive list …
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October 7, Day of prayer, fasting and penance for peace
Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) joins the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem (LPJ) in calling for a day of prayer, fasting, and penance for peace in the Holy Land on October 7. Königstein Im Taunus/Montreal, October 1st, 2024 The executive president of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) International, Regina Lynch, released the …
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World Day of Migrants and Refugees
For more than 70 years, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has been involved with refugees and displaced people worldwide. In the face of growing migration, the international Catholic charity continues to bring hope through its projects in crisis zones of the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, and Europe. (Cover photo: migrants participate in …
Annual Report 2023: $209.8 million in donations to help Christians in need in 138 countries
Königstein-Montreal, June 20, 2024 — Aid to the Church in Need released its Annual Report for 2023, which once again reflected the generosity of its benefactors from all around the world to help suffering Christians and the Church in Need. Ukraine, Syria, and Lebanon were the countries that received the most aid in 2023, while …
Red Wednesday, November 20
Save the Date! Press Release – For Immediate Release Montreal, June 17, 2024 – The international Red Wednesday event will be observed in Canada on Wednesday, November 20. Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) Canada is already inviting parishes, dioceses, religious communities, and all other ecclesial institutions as well as civil society organizations to …
ACN Day of the Benefactors 2024
Celebrating the builders of God’s Kingdom Aid to the Church in Need Canada Press Release Montreal, June 6, 2024 – As it has since 2021, Aid to the Church in Need is marking the Feast of the Sacred Heart—which this year falls on June 7—by celebrating the generosity of its benefactors. For ACN Canada, their …
Save the date! One Million Children Praying the Rosary October 18!
Montreal, May 8, 2024 – Dioceses, parishes, schools, religious communities, families, and individuals—all are invited to take part in the next international One Million Children Praying the Rosary (OMC) event on October 18, 2024, organized by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). “On October 18, I invite all Catholics in Canada to pray for …
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Nuns, Everyday Heroines
Release of ACN Canada’s Magazine Montreal, April 11, 2024 – The first edition of ACN Canada’s Magazine for 2024 is now available! Entitled Nuns, Everyday Heroines, the issue features short portraits of the extraordinary work carried out by nuns around the world. “The word heroines is absolutely fitting,” says Marie-Claude Lalonde, national director of Aid …
Dont forget Myanmar
On the third anniversary of coup, ACN calls on the world not to forget Myanmar Pope Francis has said that the real treasure of Myanmar is its people. As civil conflict worsens, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) supports the repeated calls of the local Catholic Church for peace and justice, not only for …
Six religious sisters kidnapped in Haiti
Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) joins the Pope in asking for the immediate and unconditional release of the religious sisters from the Congregation of Saint Anne and for an end to the violence that plagues Haiti. Six religious sisters were kidnapped by armed criminals in Haiti, last Friday, 19 January. The crime took …