This Sunday will mark an important milestone for Iraq’s Christians on their road to recovery from genocide when a community of Sisters officially opens their long-awaited school. With capacity for 625 students, the new Al-Tahira Secondary School opens on May 1st in Qaraqosh (Bakhdida), the largest of the 13 majority Christian towns and villages in […]
The Easter Sunday bombings in 2019 in Sri Lanka killed 269 people and injured more than 500 others. Three years after the incident, a delegation of victims and leaders from different religious communities visited Pope Francis as part of a campaign for clarity on those responsible for the attacks. The Holy Father has asked the […]
Democratic Republic of the Congo For almost 30 years now, the Assumptionist Fathers in the diocese of Butembo-Beni, in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, have been exercising a fruitful media apostolate. In particular, the Catholic radio station they have set up—Radio Moto Oicha—is proving to be a vital instrument of evangelization, […]
Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has just approved an emergency relief package for Latin Rite female congregations involved in charity work in the Archdiocese of Lviv, such as the Benedictines of Solonka, who opened the doors of their contemplative monastery to refugees. The contemplative Benedictines of Solonka, near Lviv in Ukraine, are used […]
Press Release – Montreal, April 21, 2022 – For nearly two months, the war in Ukraine has been in the media spotlight. A critical concern, but one that runs the risk of overshadowing the distress experienced elsewhere in the world. “The global shock of the Russian army’s invasion of Ukraine has affected us all deeply,” […]
Czech Republic The region of Ústí in northern Bohemia is “a desert on the religious land map,” as some of the local church people put it. In fact, the Czech Republic as a whole is a profoundly atheistic country. But in the Ústí region, a mere 5% of the population even describe themselves as belonging […]
As the military invasion of Ukraine enters its 50th day on this Good Friday, Pontifical Charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) launched the second phase of its emergency aid package to the country last Monday. Immediately after the start of the war, ACN announced a first package of 1.95 million dollars for the […]
The Carmelite Missionary Sisters in Burundi Burundi, one of the smallest countries in Africa, has been going through a social and political crisis since 2015. This country, with a 94% Christian population, has received help in these difficult times from a number of different communities of religious sisters. Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) […]
Sisters of Saint Joseph in Lviv Millions of people have had to flee their homes to save themselves and their children, abandoning the regions of the east and south of Ukraine and heading west. According to recent figures by The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), almost four million people have crossed the borders […]
Success Story – Support for 19 Pallottine Sisters in three dioceses Altogether, there are 19 Pallottine nuns working in five different centres in the dioceses of Doumé-Abong‘ Mbang, Bafoussam, and Yaoundé in Cameroon. 14 of these nuns are from Poland, but several young African women have now also joined the order, and two have already […]
