Blessed Elias Hoyek, founder of the Maronite Sisters of the Holy Family, a project partner of Aid to the Church in Need, is considered father of “Greater Lebanon.” On Saturday, July 25, thousands of faithful will gather in Dimane, the summer residence of the Maronite Patriarch, to celebrate the beatification of Elias Hoyek, founder of the Maronite Sisters of the Holy Family in 1895. Hoyek, who was Patriarch of the Maronite Church from 1898 to 1931, continues to be one ...

ACN has committed to a second aid package, which, according to its executive president, will be “much higher than the initial grant. The Church has been present in the streets of La Guaira and Caracas, to care for and accompany the thousands of victims of the double earthquake that wrought great destruction in Venezuela on June 24. In a press conference organized by Aid to the Church in Need International (ACN), Archbishop Raul Biord Castillo, S.D.B., of Caracas said that ...

Head of the Chaldean Church reveals what he discussed in recent meeting with Iraq’s prime minister. Eleven years after jihadists forced him to leave his homeland, the newly-elected Patriarch of the Chaldean Church heard a promise directly from Iraq’s prime minister: Iraqis who choose to return to the country will receive the gift of a new home and land. Patriarch Paul III Nona of Baghdad met recently with Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Falih al Zaidi, and the churchman was struck ...

Archbishop Paul Coakley expresses gratitude for America’s many blessings – and offers an example of someone that US Catholics could emulate. As the United States of America celebrates her 250th anniversary, the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops says that being faithful to the Gospel is the best way Catholics can build up the nation. And he has a particular American Catholic in mind as a model for that fidelity. “I think the first thing that comes to ...

ACN’s aid is currently supporting the religious and laity who are helping the victims on the ground, but future projects are already being studied and could include rebuilding church structures and trauma healing. The situation in La Guaira, Venezuela, can only be described as “apocalyptic,” according to the executive president of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Regina Lynch. “I was not expecting this extent of destruction,” said Lynch. “When you arrive there and you see these mountains of ...

Bishops in Pakistan say that a recent Supreme Court decision is part of a cycle of injustice for victims of persecution. Bishops in Pakistan have spoken of their dismay after the country’s Supreme Court quashed the sentences of three men convicted of killing a Christian man and his pregnant wife, who were burned to death after being thrown into a brick kiln. In interviews with Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Bishops Samson Shukardin and Indrias Rehmat ...