Lebanese Christians continue to live in chaos.

It has been six months since a cease fire was declared in Lebanon. However, if it wasn’t for the lack of continued intense bombings, would the Lebanese faithful really recognize the difference?

Mass displacement, total economic failure, families unable to provide for their children, Christian children unable to attend Catholic schools – due to lack of money and schools shutting down – and not enough food and basic items to go around.

Every aspect of life for our fellow Christians has been touched by despair.

You can help turn despair into hope, if only for a little while, for faithful in need in Lebanon.

News of the Suffering and Persecuted

Father jomo is first priest believed to be killed during sudan conflict

Father Luka Jomo, the parish priest in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur State in Sudan, was killed during an attack by paramilitary militias on the city, which has been under siege since April 2023. He is believed to be the first Catholic priest killed during the conflict. “Dear fathers, sisters, and all the faithful. It is with great sorrow ...

Leading parliamentarian’s poems aid the Church in need

The UK’s leading member of Parliament has released a book of poetry drawing on Mass readings and pledged to give half the proceeds to Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). Sir Edward Leigh, the “Father of the House” – so named as the longest-serving member of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament – conceived of “Another ...

Lebanese Cardinal: Christians bring moderation to Middle East

The Patriarch of the Maronite Church, Cardinal Bechara Raï, is calling for measures so that Christians will not abandon the Middle East, because they are a decisive moderating factor among the region’s Muslim-majority countries. “Many have had to abandon Syria, because nobody can live in a war, under bombardment,” the cardinal told pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). ...

Pakistan: Christian girls continue to suffer from abuse and discrimination

A report compiled by Franciscan Fr. Lazar Aslam describes the plight of young girls and women who are subjected to rape, kidnapping, and forced marriage in a country where the law rarely affords Christians equal rights. Samiya was only 17 when she set off on February 14 of this year to her job as a cleaner in a building in Lahore, ...

Bishop calls for prayers as priest is kidnapped by jihadists in Nigeria

Fr. Alphonsus Afina was kidnapped on Sunday, June 1, in the Diocese of Maiduguri. The auxiliary bishop of Maiduguri, Nigeria has called for urgent prayers for one of his priests, who was kidnapped by jihadist terrorists. In a message sent to Aid to the Church in Need International (ACN), Bishop John Bagna Bakeni said that Fr. Alphonsus Afina was taken, along ...

“The people of Syria live without dignity or trust,” says Archbishop

Amid very difficult conditions in Syria at the moment – and fear about the future – Archbishop Jacques Mourad believes that lifting sanctions will bring new hope. The situation in Syria continues to be one of severe poverty and uncertainty, says the Syriac-Catholic Archbishop of Homs, and many Christian families are still trying to leave the country. According to Archbishop Jacques Mourad, ...