Indian priest charged with singing Christmas carols finally acquitted after a four-year legal battle Father George Mangalapilly, an Indian priest, was recently acquitted of an alleged crime of “forcible religious conversion.” On December 14, 2017, he was attacked, along with 32 seminarians, by a group of radical Hindu extremists while singing Christmas carols in the […]
The diocese of Tapachula denounces incidents of maltreatment and launches an aid program for migrants who, it says, are suffering a “Calvary.” In recent weeks the Mexican town of Tapachula, on the border with Guatemala, has become a scene of chaos for thousands of migrants arriving there en route to the United States. These migrants, […]
Aid to the Church in Need bringing the voice of the poor and persecuted Church to the Salt + Light Hour with Deacon Pedro Montreal, October 8, 2021 – As of Saturday, October 9, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) will be joining the SLHour line-up with a regular spot, once a month, on the popular Catholic radio show hosted by Salt + Light Media’s Deacon Pedro Guevara-Mann. The show, which explores many different aspects […]
Bela Vista neglected parish presbytery is in urgent need of repairs Today, almost 30 years after the country was devastated by a savage civil war, lasting from 1977 to 1992, large areas of Mozambique have still not recovered from the bloody conflict. Not only did the country suffer widespread material devastation, but also profound spiritual […]
The Catholic Church in Nigeria claims that the Christians in their country are the victims of a process of ethnic cleansing at the hands of islamist Fulani Muslims, with the complicity of the state. During a webinar hosted by Aid to the Church in Need International (ACN) respective speakers. Among them, one bishop and several […]
In an exclusive interview with the Portuguese national office of the international Catholic pastoral and Pontifical charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN International), Bishop Antonio Juliasse, the apostolic administrator of the diocese of Pemba, in the province of Cabo Delgado in northern Mozambique, describes the situation his diocese has been going through over […]
Helping 59 seminarians in Kinshasa continue their studies The Catholic Church views Africa as a continent of hope. Why? Because one in every five Catholics, one in every eight religious Sisters and one in every nine priests in the world today lives on the African continent. The numbers are even higher when it comes to […]
In Sierra Leone, doctors and scientists who dealt with the onset of the current COVID-19 pandemic adapted measures used during the Ebola epidemic to prevent a repeat of the tragedy that killed 3,590 people between 2014 and 2016, traumatizing the country. During a visit to the international headquarters of the Aid to the Church in […]
Originally from Pakistan, Sister Shahnaz Bhatti is a member of the congregation of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Jeanne-Antide Thouret. Until August 25, the religious Sister was serving in Afghanistan, when she was able to leave the country through the help of the Italian armed forces. She talked about her experiences with Aid to […]
The threat of Daesh (ISIS) and other extremists in Iraq has grown following the taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan – according to one of the Middle East’s most respected bishops. Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil told leading Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) that the taliban’s rise to power […]
