The Voice of the suffering and persecuted​

Dear Friend of ACN, This is a difficult and scary time. We hope and pray that you and those you love are healthy and safe. As an organization, it is challenging as well.  Due to the Coronavirus and a state-mandated lockdown, our offices are temporarily closed. However, our commitment to the persecuted and suffering Church and her faithful will not be affected, nor will our dedication to our donors. We ask for your prayers at this time,  as well as your patience.  While our office is closed, our thank-you letters and other communications to you will be delayed,  as ...

POPE FRANCIS: Dear brothers and sisters, In these trying days, while humanity trembles due to the threat of the pandemic, I would like to propose to all Christians that together we lift our voices towards Heaven. I invite all the Heads of the Churches and the leaders of every Christian community, together with all Christian of the various confessions, to invoke the Almighty, the omnipotent God, *to recite at the same time the prayer that Jesus, our Lord, taught us. I, therefore, invite everyone to do this several times a day. To the pandemic caused by the virus, we ...

"The Churches are raising these problems at every level and on numerous occasions, but since their voice is not backed by political and financial weight (we are only 2 percent of the population), it is still not being heard, which moreover raises the problem of legal protection and minority rights.”

"We have learned that in the universities the young, non-Muslim female students are being paid three Euros a day to wear the burka, the Muslim veil."

"There was a parish in Novosibirsk, a single parish for the entire city, a metropolis of almost 1.5 million residents."

"Sadly, the rest of the world doesn’t seem to have understood that our country runs the risk of disappearing if we do not all unite against the terrorists, in prayer, unity and solidarity."

“It’s horrible, people can no longer buy anything to eat. Some people survive on bread and water. I would like to ask people to join us to pray for these people who are in such a situation.”

There was widespread criticism of police behavior leading up to the men’s arrests. Church leaders claimed police had gone “house to house aiming to arrest as many Christians as possible,” while investigating the lynching of the two Muslim men.

"Besides the economic issues, I believe that Cuba’s primary problem is the collapse of the family. The father figure has ceased to exist."

"Even if the situation is not very clear, we see the importance of a sign of hope. ACN is determined to help the Christians to stay. Our task is to stand by the people who would like to come back.”