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 […]
The parish of Christ the King in Corcovado in Patagonia is still quite new, having only been established in May of 2021. Before that, the area belonged to a larger parish, whose main office was nearly 75 kilometres away – too far away to be able to minister adequately to the faithful. The new parish […]
On March 25, in the Cathedral of Rumbek, South Sudan, Italian missionary Christian Carlassare was ordained bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Rumbek—a position that had been vacant for 10 years. In an interview with international charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) prior to this momentous occasion, the bishop described the attack he […]
Towards the end of 2021, the Nigerian government announced that members of terrorist organization Boko Haram were being disarmed and reintegrated into society. Through several operations, thousands of insurgents, including fighters, non-combatants and family members, were laying down their weapons in different parts of Borno State, in north-eastern Nigeria. Just last week, according to General […]
For the Roman Catholic Bishop of Odesa, Stanislav Schyrokoradiuk, one of the main reasons for the invasion of Ukraine is the way the Russian population has been misinformed: “We Ukrainians are the victims of the war; the Russian people are the victims of propaganda.” Last Tuesday, the bishop took part in an online conference at […]
Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith says that the Church is waiting for answers as the victims continue to carry the scars of the Easter Sunday bombings that killed 269 people and injured more than 400 in Sri Lanka in 2019. Speaking at a press conference organized by Aid to the Church in Need International (ACN), Cardinal Malcolm […]
Enduring war in the capital of Ukraine, Father Lucas could not feel further away from his native Brazil. Yet he refuses to leave the country and is moved by the many examples of hope he witnesses during this conflict. Father Lucas Perozzi is in Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. Since the first days of the war, […]
From the very beginning of the war, the Archdiocese of Ivano-Frankivsk, in West Ukraine, has been involved in welcoming fleeing women and children, most of whom are coming from major cities such as Kyiv, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro and Odesa. Sofia, just 14 years old, is one of these refugees. Together with her mother, she has […]
