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One year since start of war in the Holy Land: “Let us pray that God gives comfort and hope…”
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Today, the day of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, ACN joins the requests of Pope Francis and the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, inviting you to live this day in fasting and penance and to pray the Rosary for peace in the Holy Land and throughout the world. It is one year since the heartbreaking conflict in the Holy Land started. “Let us pray that God gives comfort and hope, courage and strength, to those affected by ...
Despite bombardments, religious sister remains in Lebanon
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Despite ongoing airstrikes, a religious sister has decided to stay in the monastery of St. Joseph in Ain Ebel, southern Lebanon, just three miles from the Israeli border, to accompany the Christian community. “There are still some 9,000 Christians here in three different villages. We are in constant danger,” reported Sister Maya El Beaino of the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. “There is no hospital in the area, no Red Cross, and we have only three ...
Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem calls for a day of prayer for the Holy Land
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Regina Lynch, executive president of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) International, released the following statement: As the executive president of ACN, a pontifical foundation that supports the persecuted and suffering Church throughout the world, I am deeply saddened by the unspeakable violence that has shaken the Holy Land for the last year. I would like to call upon ACN’s friends and benefactors around the globe to participate in a day of prayer, fasting, and penance on Monday, October ...
Church struggles to help migrants in “legal limbo” in the Holy Land
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On September 29th, the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, Aid to the Church in Need takes a closer look at Christian migrants and refugees in the Holy Land, where the Church is fighting for their rights. Christians have lived in the Holy Land since the earliest days of the Church, and they face many challenges now – not only the Palestinian Christian community, but the Christians who live in Israel as migrants and asylum seekers. Official numbers are hard ...
On the 110th World Day of Migrants and Refugees, ACN calls attention to worldwide need
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For more than 70 years, ACN has been involved with refugees and displaced people worldwide. In the face of growing movements of refugees and migrants, the international Catholic charity continues to bring hope through its projects in crisis zones — including the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, and Europe. On the 110th World Day of Migrants and Refugees, September 29th, the international Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) calls attention to the precarious situation of people around ...
Attacks on Lebanon “are affecting everybody”
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ACN projects in southern Lebanon are mostly emergency in nature and are needed now more than ever before. The foundation is already thinking of additional ways to help thousands of displaced people, many of whom have taken shelter in churches. The wave of airstrikes targeting Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon is having a devastating effect on the entire population, including Christians, and could drive even more to leave the country, says Marielle Boutros, project coordinator in Lebanon for the pontifical foundation ...
