To commemorate World Radio Day on February 13th, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is highlighting its ongoing support for Catholic radio, an essential tool for both spreading information and evangelizing throughout the world. In 2024, the charity committed over $570,000 to 22 radio projects in 19 countries.  Hundreds of Catholic radio stations are operating in the most forgotten places on the planet. Many of them do so thanks to the benefactors of Aid to the Church in Need ...

Bishop Raymond Mupandasekwa told ACN that the Church has been slow to recognize the contribution of sisters to the Church’s work, but that fortunately, in Zimbabwe, this is beginning to change.  The Bishop of Masvingo in Zimbabwe says that the Church in his country, and in general, owes a debt of gratitude to the religious sisters who do pastoral work on the ground, sometimes in very difficult conditions.   During a visit to the international headquarters of Aid to the Church ...

The Christian community in Burkina Faso is in mourning, following the murder of two catechists in a violent attack on Saturday, January 25th, in the Diocese of Dédougou. The victims belonged to the parish of Ouakara and were attacked close to Bondokuy by two armed men, while returning from a training session on the life and ministry of catechists.  According to local sources who spoke to the aid organization Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), four catechists were traveling ...

Two weeks after the M23 armed group attacked the city of Goma, there is still fighting in the province of North Kivu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, worsening humanitarian conditions in the region. A missionary in the country tells ACN that over 2,000 people have been killed, and that hospitals are overrun with the wounded. Even refugee camps have been attacked.  The province of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo is facing a terrible humanitarian ...

ACN dedicates its Lent campaign to the persecuted Church. The Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is launching a new campaign at the beginning of Lent. “Martyrs of Our Days: Witnesses of Hope” is a call to show solidarity with persecuted Christians around the world. Inspired by Pope Francis’ invitation to celebrate a Jubilee of Hope, this campaign aims to highlight that despite the persecution they suffer, today’s martyrs continue to be examples of consolation, faith, and ...

After centuries of prohibition, the small Catholic community of Estonia is rising from the ashes. On September 26th, 2024, Pope Francis erected the first diocese in the country. On November 1st of the same year, during an address to the Catholic Church of Estonia to mark the centenary of the creation of its first apostolic administration, Pope Francis congratulated it for being an “example of faith,” despite “decades of suffering, occupation, and oppression”, and stated that “this admirable legacy of ...