PRESS RELEASE – For Immediate Release Aid to the Church in Need – 2019 Report Praying, informing and giving, more essential than ever before! by ACN International Adapted by ACN Canada Published online June 17, 2020 Königstein-im-Taunus-Montreal, Wednesday June 17, 2020 – Close to 160 million dollars raised by Aid to the Church in Need […]
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ACN Interview: COVID-19 With creativity and trust in God against the crisis
ACN Interview: COVID-19 With creativity and trust in God against the crisis By Tobias Lehner, ACN International Adapted by Amanda Bridget Griffin, ACN Canada Published on the web May 25, 2020 ACN supports Church work during the Coronavirus pandemic COVID-19 is not only a medical, social and economic problem, but also a pastoral one. Since […]
COVID-19: How are ACN Project Partners coping in Mali?
COVID-19: How are our project partners coping in Mali? The impact of the pandemic in developing countries is very significant. But despite this – they are thinking of us. Here are some difficult stories collected by ACN in the diocese of Segou, that are coloured by hope and faith in God in Mali. “Everyone […]
ACN PROJECT OF THE WEEK – Help for the formation of seminarians of a new spiritual community in Brazil
Brazil Help for the formation of seminarians of a new spiritual community By ACN International Projects Department, Adapted by Amanda Bridget Griffin, ACN Canada Published on the web April 15, 2020 The Opus Mariae community (known in Brazil as Eis aí tua mãe – Obra de Maria) was founded in Brazil in 1990 and […]
ACN Press – For Immediate Release – 7.5 million for COVID-19
ACN International response COVID-19 Aid group commits 7.5 Million to support priests and religious serving communities most vulnerable to COVID-19 To help mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), the international pontifical charity serving the persecuted and suffering Church around the world, is providing 7.5 million in […]
ACN Project of the Week – Helping those in need in Lebanon
ACN Project of the Week – Lebanon Helping the poor seeking refuge in Zahleh By ACN International Projects Department, adapted by ACN Canada Published on the web March 4th, 2020 St John the Merciful was a 6th-7th century saint, noted for his generosity to the poor and suffering. Wherever he saw a need, […]
ACN News – Asia Bibi: An encounter with an icon
Asia Bibi in France An encounter with an icon By Thomas Oswald for ACN International Adapted by Amanda Bridget Griffin, ACN Canada Published online February 28, 2020 Asia Bibi has requested political asylum while in France. This Pakistani Christian woman, whose fate ACN has followed closely since she was first sentenced in 2010, recently […]
Project of the Week: Support for the youth apostolate in Pakistan
Project of the Week: Pakistan A spiritual breath for a youth apostolate in Faisalabad Published on line February 27, 2020 Roughly half of the 207 million people who make up the population of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan are under the age of 25, and one third of these are actually aged 14 or younger. […]
Project of the Week – Support for pastoral outreach in Ethiopia
Ethiopia Support for ongoing pastoral outreach to the Borana people By ACN Projects Department and ACN Canada Published on the web February 19, 2020 Holy Cross Parish is based in the village of Dhadim, in a remote and underdeveloped region of southern Ethiopia. Its people are members of the Borana tribe who were until […]
ACN NEWS – the murder of Nigerian seminarian Michael Nnadi
Nigeria ACN expresses great sadness at the murder of Nigerian seminarian Michael Nnadi Published on the web February 5, 2020 Great sadness and dismay was expressed by the international Catholic pastoral charity and pontifical charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN International) at the murder of the 18-year-old Nigerian seminarian, Michael Nnadi […]