Witness What Persecution Looks Like

More and more Catholics are being persecuted for the faith. Around the world, our fellow faithful are targeted because they go to church or wear a cross. Churches are set ablaze and religious statues are desecrated; faithful are accused of blasphemy, even if no evidence is available. Priests and nuns are kidnapped; some are never seen again; families are tormented by terrorist groups and forced from their homes.

Please help your fellow Christian with a gift today. While we cannot always prevent their suffering, we can prevent our Faith from being abolished by reaching out and coming to the aid of the persecuted. God bless you. Together, we will Keep Our Faith Alive.

News of the Suffering and Persecuted

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Sister Aparecida Queiroz, from the Congregation of the Daughters of Jesus in a message directly to benefactors, saying: “This is what we are doing with the help that you and your family provide through ACN. That help reaches these thousands of people in this part of the world. Thank you so much!”

ACN help is “like the hand of God, saving lives” in Mozambique

A missionary sister who works in the Diocese of Pemba, which has been racked by terrorism, as well as by a recent cyclone, thanks Aid to the Church in Need for the help it provides civilians.  Seven years ago, Sister Aparecida Queiroz from the Congregation of the Daughters of Jesus arrived in the Diocese of Pemba, Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, just as ...
From March 10th to 14th, 2025, leaders from CELAM/PCAL and Latin American aid agencies gathered in Königstein to speak about topics like the Church as a tool of transformation and other things. CELAM stands for Consejo Episcopal Latinoamericano y Caribeño (Latin American and Caribbean Episcopal Council), an organization that brings together bishops from Latin America and the Caribbean to promote collaboration and address regional challenges within the Catholic Church.

Latin America and Caribbean Meeting for Synodal Cooperation 2025: The Church as an agent of transformation

The international headquarters of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN International), in Königstein, Germany, hosted the Latin America and Caribbean Meeting for Synodal Cooperation 2025, between March 10-14. This initiative, held under the aegis of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, the Latin-American Bishops Council (CELAM), and the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development is aimed at strengthening synodal cooperation ...
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Nigerian Church in pain as 21-year-old seminarian murdered by kidnappers

The murder of seminarian Andrew Peter follows the recent killing of Father Sylvester Okechukwu. In the first three months of 2025, Nigeria has had three times more kidnappings of clergy and religious than in the same period of 2024.   The Nigerian Church is reeling from the news of the murder of a young seminarian, Andrew Peter, at the hands of kidnappers, ...
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Nigeria: Let our children go back to school   

A plea for government in northern Nigeria to re-think the sudden and unprecedented closure of schools during Ramadan is coming from a bishop concerned for the hundreds of thousands of children affected.  Bishop Gerald Mamman Musa of Katsina said it came as “a complete surprise” when governors in his state, as well as Kano, Kebbi, and Bauchi, announced that all schools ...
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Potrait of Mgr Jean Abdou Arbach B.C.
Pastoral visit of His Beatitude Patriarch Gregorios III Laham and the Ordinary of the Greek-Melkite Archdiocese of Homs, Hama and Yabroud Mgr Jean Abdou Arbach B.C. to the Parish of St. Elijah in  Al-Qusayr (Qussair, Qusair, Alqseir)
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Completion of the church's restoration of Quseir

“We don’t want any more bloodshed in Syria,” says Homs Archbishop 

Archbishop Arbach will participate in the “Night of Witnesses” in the cathedral of Madrid on March 14th.  Following the massacres that took place in western Syria on March 8th and 9th, which, according to available reports and estimates, left 1,000 dead, the Archbishop of Homs, Jean Abdo Arbach, has told Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) that “we don’t want ...
Visit to St John's Church, Lahore to see victims of the bomb blasts on 15/3/15 in which 17 people were killed including Akash Bashir, aged 20, who gave his life preventing a suicide bomber from entering the church compound. This picture of Akash was provided by his parents, Bashir and Nazbano.
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Security measures for St. John's Catholic Church, Youhanabad, Lahore

Young Pakistani Akash Bashir remains an inspiration to many, ten years after his death

March 15th will mark the tenth anniversary of the death of Akash Bashir, a 20-year-old Catholic who sacrificed his life to save hundreds of people by intercepting a suicide bomber trying to access the church of Saint John in Youhanabad, in the Diocese of Lahore in Pakistan.  That act led to his being raised to the status of Servant of God ...

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Help for the Training of Seminarians in Mexico

There are over 120 “Redemptoris Mater” priestly seminaries around the world. They were established by Pope Saint John Paul II ...
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