The Voice of the suffering in Latin America

Pope Leo XIV is a bishop who is “going to hear the cry of the suffering Church,” predicts a fellow Augustinian missionary who lived and worked with the future pontiff in Peru for 10 years. As a missionary in Peru, facing threats in a difficult time in the country, the future pope stood by and spoke up for Christians whose freedom and basic rights were violated, said the priest. Father John J. Lydon, OSA, has known Robert F. Prevost since ...

Spanish priest Father Alfonso Delgado, who arrived in Venezuela in the 1970s with a group of fellow missionaries, gradually found himself alone as the years passed and his companions passed away. However, he found a home among the Sisters of the Missionary Work of Jesus and Mary, a congregation that he had helped establish in Carora, in western Venezuela, over 50 years ago.  “A few months ago, when I was struck down by cancer, I did not know where to ...

Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) deeply mourns the tragic loss of two religious sisters from the Congregation of the Little Sisters of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, who were brutally murdered on Monday, March 31st, by armed gangs in Mirebalais, about 31 miles northeast of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti.  Sisters Evanette Onezaire and Jeanne Voltaire were in the city on a mission when they found themselves needing to take refuge with other civilians from an attack ...

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 between a variety of institutions and organizations that work for international cooperation in the region. During the five-day meeting, ...

On International Women’s Day, we highlight the work of a group of religious sisters from the Company of Mary in Cuba, who have managed to provide assistance to young people, the elderly, and women with the help of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN).  “This is a time to share and to receive hope, to look boldly into the future,” religious sisters in Cuba, of the Company of Mary Foundation from Mexico, tell us. The island nation of Cuba ...

The wide plains of Upper Apure in southwest Venezuela are a meeting point for Andean heritage and the identity of the plain dwellers, with a strong indigenous presence and contact with Colombians just across the border. In the middle of this landscape rises the Christ of the Savannah, which has become a symbol of faith, identity, and resilience for the Diocese of Guasdualito, which was created only nine years ago, in December 2015, and is supported by Aid to the ...