Aid to the Church in Need is preparing a second wave of help for Beirut amid growing fears that last month’s explosion could spark an exodus of Christians from Lebanon. Amid reports that more than 100 churches, convents, Church-run schools and other institutes are in need of repairs following the blast on August 4, a […]
Bishop Ettore Balestrero, Nuncio to Democratic Republic of Congo (RDC) This Tuesday Pope Francis travels to the country with the largest number of Catholics in Africa, marked by violence and corruption, but with enormous wealth in human and natural resources. (Top photo: In 2021, camps for people displaced by the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo on […]
“We must have faith to rebuild the village, and you are a sign of that faith,” Bishop Thabet told dozens of Dominican sisters gathered for the inauguration of their new Convent of Saint Joseph. Batnaya used to be an important hub of Christian life in the Nineveh Plains, in Northern Iraq. Around 5,000 Christians, almost […]
Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) had recently collaborated with the parish in which church warden Diego Valencia was murdered. Pontifical Charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) expresses its utmost condemnation of the attack on two Catholic Churches carried out yesterday, Wednesday, in Algeciras, Spain, motivated by jihadist religious extremism. ACN also […]
The attack on the Church occurred during the celebration of many baptisms. Days after a terrorist attack on a Protestant church in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Marcelo Oliveira, a Comboni missionary in the African country, denounces the silence of the international community before these terrible acts of violence and highlights […]
Help for pastoral and social outreach in the poorest villages For the past three years now, Lebanon has been going through the worst crisis in its history. The economy has collapsed, inflation is at dizzying heights, and at its best, electricity runs for no more than one or two hours a day. Many people are […]
Fr. Jacques Mourad (Yacoub Murad) lived as a prisoner of the Islamic State for five months before managing to escape to freedom. Now he has been appointed archbishop-elect of the Syrian Catholic Archdiocese of Homs. “Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) rejoices at this decision. During his ordeal, Fr. Jacques remained a solid example […]
A car for a parish in the Andes Our benefactors have donated $38,820 towards the purchase of an all-terrain vehicle intended for the immense parish of Peñas in the Bolivian Andes, ministered to by Father Antonio Zavatarelli. The priest also runs a school in La Paz, the administrative capital of Bolivia (and highest in the […]
Fr. Isaac Achi was reportedly burned by unknown gunmen, and his assistant, Fr. Colins Omeh,sustained gunshot wounds. Reports also emerged of the kidnapping of another priest in Southern Nigeria this Sunday*. A parish residence was attacked this Sunday, January 15, in Niger, Nigeria, resulting in the death of one priest and the injury of a […]
Burkina Faso has seen an unprecedented increase in terrorism since 2015 and on the 2nd of January a priest was murdered in the northwest of the country. Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) spoke to Bishop Laurent Dabiré of Dori, President of the Bishops’ Conference of Burkina Faso and Niger, on the situation in […]
It was with “very deep sorrow” that Bishop Prosper Bonaventure Ky, of Dédougou, in Burkina Faso, announced the death of Father Jacques Yaro Zerbo, murdered on Monday, January 2, 2023 by “unidentified armed men,” according to a statement sent to international charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). According to the bishop, the attack […]
