Christians in Beirut have responded with defiance amid reports that groups seeking to profit from last week’s explosion are trying to persuade them to sell up and leave. An estimated 300,000 families were displaced by the August 4th explosion and Monsignor Toufic Bou-Hadir described how people – including the elderly – are choosing to keep […]
The campaign to free a 14-year-old Christian girl in Pakistan from the clutches of a man who abducted, held the young girl hostage in his home and forced her into marriage, lies in tatters after Lahore High Court unexpectedly decided in his favour. On Tuesday August 4, Judge Raja Muhammad Shahid Abbasi overturned an earlier […]
Systematic violence against Nigerian Christians by Fulani herdsmen constitutes genocide, according to a leading Catholic bishop who stressed that Muslims are also falling foul of the violence. Following the kidnapping and deliberate execution on July 23 of five aid workers by Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP), Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah of Sokoto told Catholic […]
The Latin American Saint, Padre Pio, once foretold: “When a million children pray the Rosary together, then the world will change.” In Uruguay the Catholic Church has a much more limited influence on society than in other countries of Latin America. Barely half the inhabitants of this, the second smallest country in Latin America, profess […]
“Christians in Lebanon can count on help from ACN” The charity is funding food parcels for survivors of the explosion in Beirut The international Catholic pastoral and pontifical charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN International) has been working for decades with numerous different project partners within Lebanon – above all in the areas […]
Beirut, Lebanon The charity is funding food parcels for survivors of the explosion in Beirut The international Catholic pastoral and pontifical charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN International) has been working for decades with numerous different project partners within Lebanon – above all in the areas of pastoral care and help for refugees. […]
Photo: Lebanon, the Roueissat Jdeideh, St. Anthony dispensary run by Sr. Hanan Youssef (Good Shepherds Sisters) meeting the refugees from Iraq and Syria: Robert Lalonde Journalist of ACN Canada) with Sister Hanan – Help to the dispensary Saint Antoine, 2014 Food, clothes and medicine in urgent demand in Beirut Thousands of young Christian volunteers are […]
The diocese of Tunduru-Masasi lies in the far south of Tanzania on the border with Mozambique. In this area, 85% of the population identify as Muslim, while only 11% – a little over 100,000 people – are Catholic Christians. The faithful live widely scattered across numerous different villages throughout the 19 parishes covering a vast […]
LEBANON Witnesses compare explosion to an “atomic bomb.” Konigstein/Montreal Wednesday, August 5, 2020—An emergency food package of $362,500 is to be rushed out to Beirut by a leading Catholic charity in the wake of the huge explosion yesterday (Tuesday, August 4). The Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) grant will go to support poor […]
Konigstein/Montreal —ACN president expresses solidarity with Catholics in the country following the arson attack on a church. The international Catholic Pontifical Charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN International) has condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist-style arson attack against the Catholic cathedral in Managua, the Nicaraguan capital. According to a statement by the […]
