The community of Mar a Dentro in Brazil, needed a car to transport materials and for its many charitable projects and pastoral programs, both in the city and in other towns and villages that are accessible by road. The roads are poor and the journeys are often long. See how ACN Benefactors have helped them!
In its 15th Report on Religious Freedom in the World, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) warns of severe threats to this fundamental right worldwide. Rome/Königstein, April 20, 2021 — The Religious Freedom in the World Report (RFR) 2021, produced by international Catholic pontifical charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), notes that […]
Translation for social: Contemplative Carmelite Sisters in DRC have devoted their lives to praying for the world. Through decades of civil war and ongoing violence, they pray especially for the young seminarians nearby that they may have the strength to carry out their vocations. Though the people of Malole are so happy and grateful to have the Sisters and the convent near to them where they can attend Mass, they are too poor to support them. See how ACN is stepping to help in our project of the week!
Former UN Special Rapporteur Heiner Bielefeldt pays tribute to ACN report
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
This year, ACN is supporting these priests again by providing for their training in the Seminary of Prague with a sum of $6,750.
Following a suicide bombing on Palm Sunday 2021, the Archdiocese of Makassar issued a statement delivered by its judicial vicar, Father Fransiskus Nipa, presented in a two-and-a-half-minute video message uploaded to the YouTube channel of the archdiocese’s Commission for Social Communications.
A Third Annual Magazine for ACN Canada – The Heart of Africa Montréal, Wednesday, March 31, 2021 – Aid to the Church in Need Canada (ACN) is launching its magazine. At the heart of the magazine are the initiatives of the local Church in the many areas of Africa where unprecedented terrorist attacks are taking […]
Support for the life and ministry of the 56 religious Sisters With a total area spanning almost 10 million km² the diocese of Saint Joseph, based in Irkutsk, East Siberia, is larger than the entirety of the United States. Scattered across this vast area are no more than approximately 52,000 Catholics, ministered to by a mere […]
Faith-based targeting has created a problem of its own specific to Christians: emigration. Pope Francis’s historic visit to Iraq, however, ushers in a hope for residents of Qaraqosh – largely rebuilt with the help of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) and its benefactors, that these numbers will begin to change.
