“What once was meant to be silenced has become a proclamation: Faith has survived, and hope is stronger than death.” Christians who survived jihadist attacks in northern Iraq have come together to celebrate a major festival, which will proclaim that Faith is still alive in the region.  From September 9-13, 2025, Christians from across the region’s different traditions – Assyrian Church of the East, Chaldean, Syriac Catholic, and Syriac Orthodox – are joining together for an extended celebration of the ...

Church property has been vandalized, and so far, authorities have failed to act. Archbishop Inácio Saure of Nampula, Mozambique held a press conference on Wednesday, September 3, to denounce the illegal occupation of Church land by groups of citizens who have built houses on the territory.   The invaded land includes plots on which the female congregation of the Servants of Mary, two seminaries, and the parish of St. John the Baptist in Marrare are located. In at least one of ...

Fr. Augustine Amadu was a friend of Aid to the Church in Need, and his death is a tragic loss for the Church in the Diocese of Kenema and for the whole Church.  A priest was murdered in his parish home on Saturday, August 30, in the Diocese of Kenema, Sierra Leone. Fr. Augustine Amadu was found dead by parishioners following what is believed to have been a robbery.   According to an autopsy, the priest received a heavy blow to the ...

For over two decades, Bishop David Tencer has been a missionary in Iceland, where the Atlantic meets the Arctic – and since 2015, the Slovakian Capuchin, with his wide smile, has been responsible for the northernmost diocese in Europe. During a visit to the headquarters of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), he showed that his sense of humor is a match for the challenges of his mission.   The Diocese of Reykjavik was created in 1968 to serve a ...

In the ancient Christian nation of Ethiopia, there are nomadic groups who have never heard the Gospel. The Spiritans are working with these communities to spread the Good News and evangelize the culture, which involves dialogue with controversial traditions.  “Every community has its own culture, and of course, their culture is beautiful,” says Fr. Kilimpe Garbicha, speaking about the nomadic Hamar people of the Omo Valley in southwest Ethiopia. Ordained in 2013, Fr. Kilimpe has been the Provincial Superior in ...

Harshly persecuted for her faith, Sofia ended up finding solace in God and the strength to forgive those who drove her from her country and nearly killed her several times. On August 6, 2014, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Christians had to leave everything behind and escape their homeland, as terrorists from the Islamic State overran their villages and towns in the Nineveh Plain. Among them was Sofia, who was just a 12-year-old girl at the time. Gripped with fear ...