Aid to the Church in Need — Canada (ACN)Montreal, 2023-10-12 – One Million Children Praying the Rosary, Aid to the Church in Need’s pilgrimage to the great Marian shrines of Lourdes and Fátima, and Red Wednesday. It is a fruitful fall for ACN Canada! “As hundreds of participants gather in Rome this month for the …
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Religious Freedom – To watch for in Canada
Press Release — For Immediate Release Montreal, August 31, 2023 – Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) makes the new Executive Summary of its Religious Freedom in the World Report 2023 available to its benefactors and supporters. ACN Canada also takes this opportunity to announce that Red Wednesday 2023 will take place on …
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Interview – Tabitha: My new life
A Pakistani Christian nurse, who narrowly escaped being lynched by a large mob of people after being accused of blasphemy, has spoken of her joy after arriving in North America to start a new life with her family. Video footage of Tabitha Nazir Gill, now 32, being beaten up by colleagues went viral in early …
ACN Success Story – Pakistan
Sunday school for the children of a very large parish The Holy Spirit parish, based in Sangla Hill, is the largest parish in the Archdiocese of Lahore. It includes a total of 67 villages, many of them far from the parish centre. This is why Father Akmal Patras was determined to give Catholic children living …
Pakistan – Parishioners gather for Mass outside their torched church
There were tears of sadness and fear in Pakistan on Sunday (20th August) as a crowd of 700 attended Mass outside their burnt-out church following one of the country’s worst outbreaks of persecution in a generation. Amid tight security, Bishop Indrias Rehmat of Faisalabad presided at the Mass held in the streets of Jaranwala where …
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Aid to the Church in Need proposes the Rosary for peace!
A prayerful start to a new school yearOne Million Children Praying the Rosary is back. Press Release – One Million Children Praying the Rosary Montreal, August 18, 2023 – In Canada, it is back-to-school season and Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is proposing a pastoral activity for the start of the 2023-2024 school …
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India, Manipur – Pray for an end to the suffering!
A Catholic archbishop in northeast India, who has seen his diocese at the centre of a wave of deadly attacks, has issued an urgent appeal for prayers “to transform the minds of the people who are led by hatred and religious violence”. In a letter to Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Archbishop Dominic …
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WYD 2023 – Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) gives a voice to the persecuted Church in Lisbon
Hundreds of thousands of young people took part in a variety of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) initiatives during World Youth Day (WYD) in Lisbon, Portugal, from August 1 to August 6, 2023. The pontifical charity ensured that persecuted Christians from around the world were not forgotten, reminding those present of their brothers …
India: Anti-Christian violence continues to rage in Manipur
Even leaders of the Hindu nationalist party are beginning to accuse the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of complicity in what has become a widespread attack on Christians. Aid to the Church in Need (CAN) continues to monitor the situation closely. (Photo: A Catholic village burned down by a mob). The situation in the State of …
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Iraq—Patriarch Sako leaves Baghdad in response to the president.
His Eminence Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, Patriarch and the leader of the Chaldean Church has publicly announced his decision to “withdraw from the patriarchal seat in Baghdad, and go from where I am currently in Istanbul, on a church, mission, to one of the monasteries in Iraqi Kurdistan.” The announcement was made in a statement …
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