The targeting of young people, indiscriminate killings and widespread sexual violence – including the rape of nuns – is part of a genocide against the Tigrayan ethnic group of northern Ethiopia, according to a source close to the Church. The source, who will remain anonymous for security reasons, told Catholic Charity Aid to the Church […]
Press Release – For Immediate Release – Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) Montréal, Wednesday, June 11, 2021 – On Monday, October 18th at 6:30 pm, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) will hold a virtual time of prayer on the occasion of the international event One Million Children Pray the Rosary.Sign-up now! “In […]
For some years now the province of Cabo Delgado, in the far north of Mozambique, has been suffering greatly from a wave of terrorist violence that has created a climate of war and uprooted over 700,000 people from their homes. And, sadly, news of burned-out villages and barbarous beheadings of individuals has become commonplace in […]
A Christian couple in Pakistan on death row for seven years, was acquitted in a landmark judgment, Thursday, June 3. Shagufta Kausar and her husband, Shafqat Masih, from the Punjab town of Gojra, were sentenced to death in 2014 for allegedly sending a local imam blasphemous text messages insulting the Muslim Prophet Mohammad. But in […]
Success Story: Help for the support and training of 20 religious of the Missionary Sisters of Jesus Word and Victim With an area of a little over a million square miles (2.8 km²), Argentina is the eighth-largest country in the world. But the home country of Pope Francis is going through a serious economic crisis today. Poverty is on the increase and […]
Christine du Coudray retires after 28 years at ACN International as head of the project department for Africa The pontifical Charity ACN International bids farewell to Christine du Coudray as she retires after serving as coordinator of projects for Africa for many years. Dr. Thomas Heine-Geldern, executive president of ACN International, thanked the departing member of […]
A leading archbishop has hit out at international sanctions on Syria which are crippling the country and plunging those who survived the civil war into dire poverty. In a message seen by Catholic Charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Maronite Archbishop Samir Nassar of Damascus said that the economic crisis in Syria had […]
“Lebanon needs our prayers and our solidarity more urgently than ever” ACN welcomes the announcement of an emergency meeting in the Vatican On Trinity Sunday, during the Angelus greeting, Pope Francis announced a forthcoming meeting with Church leaders from Lebanon, to be held on July 1. Responding to the announcement, Dr. Thomas Heine-Geldern, the executive […]
Support for a course in the biblical apostolate for catechists The most recent papal letter Antiquum Ministerium , in which Pope Francis establishes the Ministry of Catechist, with its own liturgical responsibilities, was a source of great joy for ACN. Why? Because ACN is already supporting the work of catechists in many countries all around the […]
Catholic charity ACN International responds to the Pope’s prayer appeal for peace and justice in the Holy Land. Statement by Thomas Heine-Geldern, Executive President of ACN International: “We are shocked by the news from the Holy Land. Once again, in this so holy place, hatred and darkness have erupted. Jerusalem, a city that is sacred […]
