The parish of St. Padre Pio in Krasnosilka, a village in southern Ukraine around 15 km north of the city of Odessa, is still young and also pretty small. The Catholic community there numbers only around 30 people, mainly families with young children. But other families are beginning to show an interest in the Catholic faith. Yet there is still no church here. Mass […]
This year the parish of Lumbila is celebrating the 70th anniversary of its existence. It is the oldest parish in the diocese of Njombe, in the south of Tanzania, and it lies on the shores of Lake Malawi, the ninth-largest lake in the world. All eight outstations of this parish can be reached by water only, since there are no roads. Until […]
Mass Offerings for 43 priests in the diocese of Saint Joseph, Irkutsk, Russia With an area of 10 million km², the diocese of Saint Joseph in Irkutsk is larger than the entire country of Canada (9,985 million km²). Bordering on China, the Pacific Ocean and Alaska, it stretches across seven different time zones. Scattered across this vast area […]
Support for the distribution of Bibles and a Blooming Catechetical Apostolate The priestly Order of the Imitation of Christ was established in 1919 in Kerala in India. It has also been present in the Horn of Africa since 2009. In fact the order now has three monasteries in Ethiopia, in the diocese of Endibir and […]
A car is needed to carry pastoral work to prisoners the diocese of Zomba, Malawi In the diocese of Zomba, southern Malawi, Father Ephraim Chikwiri is chaplain to five different prisons. He not only celebrates Holy Mass with the incarcerated, but also organizes monthly retreat days and Bible study courses in which, under his guidance, […]
Help to renovate and enlarge a chapel for tea plantation workers The parish of Maliboda Daraniyagala includes 53 Catholic families who work as day labourers on the tea plantations of the region. Like their mainly Hindu fellow plantation workers, they are originally from India. The Catholic Church is caring for the welfare of the plantation […]
Success Story: A Moped for Pastoral Work Father Maria Raju Etcherla was ordained just three years ago. Now, he is in charge of the parish of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus in Rajam, located in the north of the state of Andhra Pradesh in central eastern India. He is responsible for ministering to its 11 […]
Support for a centre working with victims of domestic violence For almost 30 years now, in accordance with the heartfelt wish of Pope Saint John Paul II, ACN has been helping to promote fraternal dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Russian Orthodox Church. The historic meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow in […]
Help for the training of 106 Little Sisters of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus working in rural areas Haiti is the poorest country on the American continent, and one of the least developed nations in the world. Violence, crime, natural disasters, political unrest, poverty and hunger – there seems to be little in the […]
Subsistence aid for the discalced Carmelite Sisters in Prague The feast of Saint Joseph on 19 March 2021 was a day of special joy for the discalced Carmelite Sisters in Prague. For on this day Sister Elizabeth Miriam took her solemn permanent vows and bound herself for ever to the Carmelite family and making her […]
