Success Story: Help for the support and training of 20 religious of the Missionary Sisters of Jesus Word and Victim With an area of a little over a million square miles (2.8 km²), Argentina is the eighth-largest country in the world. But the home country of Pope Francis is going through a serious economic crisis today. Poverty is on the increase and […]
ACN supports the refugee work of the Church with $240,000 in emergency aid as Northern Mozambique is hit with one crisis after another: terror, COVID and cholera
The priests responsible for the selection and formation of these future priests face major and ever-increasing challenges in their work, and so the Douala ecclesiastical province has established a two-year long, ongoing training course for those working in the area of the vocations apostolate and in the minor seminaries, where young boys and youth study and complete their secondary education with a view to possible entry into the major seminary; as well as educators working in the major seminaries.
Peru Support for the training of religious Sisters In many Latin American countries, state help of any kind is unavailable to people struggling with a physical or intellectual disability. Most families facing these challenges are already living in poverty and have few resources to address the specific needs of their disabled children. The Congregation of […]
Success-story in Colombia Help for the training of 91 seminarians in the diocese of Sonson-Rionegro It is not easy to fit in all these 91 young men in a single photo… They are the seminarians currently studying at the diocesan seminary of Our Lady in the diocese of Sonson-Rionegro in the south of […]
Brazil Formation for 28 seminarians in the diocese of Marília Brazil still holds onto its place as the most populous Catholic nation on earth. Yet, the percentage of Catholics in the country continues to fall. Today, only around 72% of over 190 million Brazilians still declare themselves as Catholic, though the exact figures quoted are […]
PROJECT OF THE WEEK Philippines Training of lay pastoral workers in the marriage and family apostolate Zamboanga is the capital of the peninsula region and archdiocese bearing the same name and is found on the island of Mindanao. The archdiocese serves a population of some 620,000 Catholics. In the past, they established a training program […]
JOURNEY WITH ACN is our Friday newsletter which will be regularly posted to our blog. This weekly newsletter will an opportunity for us to acquaint you with the needs of the Church and the projects we have realized together in countries around the world. This week: Burkina Faso Training of 14 novices ACN International Adapted […]
On the program VUES D’AILLEURS (broadcast uniquely in French on Radio Ville-Marie Wednesday May 8th) Robert Lalonde, an ACN journalist, interviewed Regina Lynch, Director of Projects at Aid to the Church in Need, International. Translated by Amanda Bridget Griffin, ACN Canada Regina Lynch is surrounded by a team of 35 persons, divided into twelve project […]
In yesterday’s article titled The Builders of Bridges, we summarized what took place at the evening of peace and gratitude, organize by the students of l’Institut de formation humaine intégrale de Montréal (IFHIM). In this article, we told you about a choir whose song was the Prayer of Saint Francis, sung in the Portuguese language. […]
