On April 6th, I had the privilege of attending an evening performance expressing the peace and gratitude of the students from l’Institut de fomation humaine integrale de Montréal (IFHIM) (Institute of Human Integral Training) to all of their benefactors, of whom you are included. This week we would like to offer you this article about the evening […]
Help for the training of seminarians Thanks to the generosity of ACN’s benefactors, eight seminarians from the diocese of Santarém are able to continue their studies. “The fact that we can count on such people who help us so generously, without expecting anything from us, fills me with great joy,” writes one seminarian. “I […]
Reinhard Backes, ACN International Adapted by Amanda Bridget Griffin, ACN Canada In preparation for the World Youth Day 2013 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s dioceses and new Catholic movements are given a million additional copies of YOUCAT, the new youth catechism published by the universal Catholic Church. Jacinto Bergmann, Archbishop of Pelotas, chair of the […]
PRESS RELEASE Syria: the battlefield By John Pontifex, ACN UK Adapted by ACN Canada The head of an ancient Middle Eastern Church has described how “the whole of Syria has become a battlefield” and has appealed to world leaders to intervene in a bid to stop the fighting. Montreal –April 17, 2013. […]
PRESS RELEASE By Oliver Maksan, ACN International Adapted by Amanda Bridget Griffin, ACN Canada Montreal, April 17, 2013 – Following attacks on a Christian funeral service in St. Mark’s Cathedral in Cairo, representatives of the Catholic Church in Egypt have made serious allegations against the authorities. Father Rafik Greiche, media spokesman of the Egyptian Catholic Bishops’ Conference, […]
by Rodrigo Arantes, ACN Brazil Luiz Gonzaga, a Brazilian musical icon, was born in a rough, rural area in the state of Pernambuco in north-eastern Brazil. He became famous in Rio de Janeiro. After 16 years, during which he never visited his parents, he returned one night to the north-east. He himself describes how he […]
by Rafael Tavares, ACN Brazil Adapted by ACN Canada Analysing the reality of Catholicism in Brazil is not an easy task. The country has the third largest episcopate in the world and globally it is the nation with the most Catholics. However, the profile of Brazilian Catholics is now extraordinarily varied. For some the panorama […]
By Rafael Tavares, ACN Brazil Adapted by Amanda Bridget Griffin, ACN Canada Both the results of the last census conducted by the Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics (IBGE) in 2010 and the recent research work of the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV), renowned in the field of Brazilian history and sociology, have indicated a fall in […]
We would like to invite you, over the next two weeks, to travel with us to Brazil, a country boasting the greatest number of Catholics in the entire world. This year, At ACN The month of April, Will be dedicated to Brazil. BRAZIL Texts by Teresa Engländer, ACN International Adapted by Amanda Bridget Griffin, ACN […]
Sister Joseph-Marie Chanaa of the Sisters of Charity of Besançon works with her five associate Sisters to help war-battered families in the Syrian capital of Damascus. By Eva-Maria Kollman, ACN International Adapted by Amanda Bridget Griffin, ACN Canada “Why does God permit so much suffering in Syria? Why do innocent people have to die? Why […]
