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Kidnapping for ransom has become an industry in Nigeria, and priests are often targeted.   On Sunday, October 27th, a priest was kidnapped at the minor seminary where he worked and was taken by armed bandits into bushes.   Armed gunmen broke into the Immaculate Conception Minor Seminary, in the Diocese of ...

ACN supported the construction of a new floor for a kindergarten in Enishke, allowing it to expand its services, receive more children from families in the surrounding villages, including Kurds and Yazidis, and help sow the seeds of peace and fraternity for future generations.  The Enishke village is located in ...

The international Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is organizing activities in more than 20 countries to commemorate Red Wednesday on November 20th. This annual event aims to shed light on the persecution faced by Christians worldwide and the fundamental right to religious freedom.  Throughout Europe, the ...

Confidential sources contacted by ACN speak of a worsening of discrimination against Christian communities in two villages in the Mopti region of Mali. According to information received by the intentional Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), an Islamic extremist group that is active in the region has ...

Unidentified armed men stormed a Catholic seminary in southern Nigeria on Sunday, October 27th, and kidnapped its rector. The terrorists attacked Immaculate Conception Minor Seminary in Ivhianokpodi, Edo State and captured Father Thomas Oyode during Benediction and Evening Prayer, according to a statement sent to Catholic charity Aid to the ...

The bishops of Venezuela recently concluded their 45th Extraordinary Plenary Assembly, during which they discussed issues of crucial importance to the country. Over three days, from October 15-17, they met to pray and reflect on the social, political, and ecclesiastical situation in Venezuela.   In a statement called “The truth shall ...

One highlight of this year’s campaign was in the Chapel of the Apparitions in Fátima, where Cardinal António Marto thanked the children for their participation, adding that with them, “God can do great and wonderful things.”  Last Friday, more than one million children all over the world answered Pope Francis’s call ...

For two years, Bishop Vitaly Krivitskiy of the Latin Diocese of Kyiv-Zhytomyr has lived in a time of war. Faced with a distraught people, he is organizing his parishes into sanctuaries of faith and preparing his priests to offer “spiritual first aid” to soldiers at the front.  At 52 years ...

Christians around the world are suffering increased violence, discrimination, and other human rights abuses, according to a report released today.  Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) released Persecuted and Forgotten? A Report on Christians oppressed for their Faith 2022-24 on Tuesday, October 22nd, highlighting that Christian persecution ...

Bishop Antonio Juliasse says that ACN continues to be a “friendly hand,” having stood by the local Church through a conflict that has already killed over 5,000 people and displaced over one million. The Bishop of Pemba in Mozambique recalled the seventh anniversary of the start of the Islamist insurgency ...