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 of age, Bishop Vitaly Krivitskiy is leading a diocese of 70 priests, all of them facing misery every day as a result of the war in their country. They witness ...

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 has significantly worsened in most countries surveyed.  Persecuted and Forgotten? provides global and regional analysis, examining the situation for Christians in 18 countries of key concern – from Nicaragua in ...

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 that devasted the province of Cabo Delgado. During a visit to Portugal, on his way back to Mozambique after visiting Rome with other bishops from the country, Bishop António Juliasse ...

Father José Luis de Menezes speaks to Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) about the origins of the Fazendas da Esperança, or Farms of Hope, a network of rehabilitation centers supported by ACN. “Our communities are dedicated to salvaging the dignity of people who have been lost to addiction,” said Father José Luís de Menezes, during his visit to the international headquarters of Aid to the Church in Need. Throughout his conversation with ACN, the Brazilian priest repeated the ...

The Archdiocese of Baalbek-Deir El-Ahmar in the Beqaa Valley, in eastern Lebanon, is suffering a major humanitarian and security crisis as a result of the daily Israeli bombardment. In an interview with ACN, Monsignor Hanna Rahmé describes the Church’s solidarity with internally displaced people and the disastrous situation that has led many to take refuge in Syria.  “Each of the Christian families in the villages around Deir El-Ahmar has welcomed three or four displaced families — that is, between 30 ...

Christian persecution is widely ignored, according to a Catholic archbishop in London, who says it is the duty of all followers of Christ to stand in solidarity with those suffer for their faith.   Speaking with Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) as part of its Break the Silence podcast series, Archbishop John Wilson of Southwark said that “it is a sadness that the persecution of Christians around the world is a subject that rarely gets the attention ...