A hospital chaplain has asked ACN for financial help to renovate sections of the Orthodox Children’s Hospice he founded in Saint Petersburg For seventeen years now ACN has been supporting the Orthodox Children’s Hospice in Saint Petersburg. The hospice is a first of its kind, founded in 2003 by the Orthodox priest Father Aleksandr Tkachenko. […]
ACN Success Story in Northeastern India, Archdiocese of Guwahati Moped For a Sister Working in Remote Jungle Villages Sister Shobka Rani Talari smiles whenever she climbs onto her brand-new moped. She is what they call a Touring Sister, or a religious who travels into remote country villages, visiting and supporting the local people. She is […]
Helping Lebanon by Preparing Seminarians Until recently, Lebanon has been the only country in the Middle East with a Christian majority. Today, Christians make up no more than an estimated 34% of the total population. Among those left, only one quarter of young people aged under 25 are Christian. The emigration of the Christian population […]
Mass Offerings for 40 priests The people of Sierra Leone have traversed a great deal of suffering recently. The consequences of a bloodying civil war which raged from 1991 to 2002 are still evident. The horror claimed innumerable human lives and devastated large portions of the country’s infrastructure in its wake. The country’s economy was […]
Supporting Families During the Coronavirus Crisis The centre for diaconic services was established in 2010 by the patriarchate of the Coptic Catholic Church. It offers a range of social and pastoral activities and initiatives, addressed above all towards women, families and young people. In addition to this there are various aid programs for those in […]
Christians are viewed as second-class citizens in Pakistan. Insulted, discriminated against, oppressed, they are rarely given the opportunity to advance socially. Most Christians have to eke out a living in the most poorly paid jobs, often working as day labourers, in the brickworks, as road sweepers, garbage collectors, rickshaw drivers or domestic staff and generally […]
The Chiluba (Ciluba) language is spoken by close to 6 million people in the Kasai Region in the southeast region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a large country right at the heart of Africaand it is one of the nation’s four official spoken languages. Some years ago, the bishops of the eight Catholic dioceses […]
High up in the Andes, at an altitude of around 4000 m above sea level, lies the diocese of Oruro. Covering an area of nearly 53,600 km², it is larger than some of the smaller European countries, such as the Netherlands for example. Yet it is sparsely populated, with just around half a million people, […]
Burkina Faso Support for Catholic Radio Support for a Catholic Radio Station For over 50 years now ACN has been supporting media-based evangelization, mainly via the radio waves. ACN founder, Father Werenfried van Straaten, understood very early on how the modern media could help to reach people in remote regions where distances are an obstacle […]
ACN News – Coronavirus in DRC ACN grants aid also to religious Sisters by Christophe Lafontaine, ACN International Adapted by Amanda Bridget Griffin, ACN Canada Published on the web, June 23, 2020 A loss of wages that were meagre to begin with. No further material or financial support from parishioners. Abject poverty. The Coronavirus […]
