SHARE:
You are browsing topics on: Church Around the World
ACN raises religious freedom concerns at European Parliament’s “Human Dignity” event
category
Aid to the Church in Need International (ACN) presented the main findings of the Religious Freedom in the World Report (RFR) at the European Parliament ...
Amid a fragile respite, an urgent plea from Gaza before Christmas
category
The Catholic parish in Gaza prepares for Christmas during an unstable ceasefire. From the heart of the devastated city, the pastor describes a disastrous sanitary ...
Pope is travelling to Lebanon to “heal wounds” and “work for peace”
category
Lebanon is still recovering from years of conflict and economic turmoil. The Pope’s visit is a sign that the local Church is not forgotten and ...
Nigerian Bishops: “Lasting peace cannot be achieved through silence or delay”
category
Catholic Bishops of Nigeria warn of escalating violence and call for urgent action to protect life and religious freedom Aid to the Church in Need ...
ACN helps keep the doors of Christian education in the Holy Land open
category
With unemployment disproportionately affecting the Christian community, and as a gesture during the Jubilee of Hope, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem (LPJ) decided to cancel ...
Nigerian catechist survives stabbing — and offers powerful lesson
category
Tobias Yahaya almost lost his life during an attack on his home in Nigeria. Fortunately for him, his wife, and their four small children, Yahaya, ...
Armed attack and mass kidnapping at Catholic Schools in Niger State
category
The Catholic Diocese of Kontagora has reported a violent overnight attack on St. Mary’s Catholic Primary and Secondary Schools in Papiri, Niger State, Nigeria, resulting ...
Four Christians killed, villages razed in fresh attack in Mozambique
category
An estimated 128,000 people have had to flee the affected region, according to UN estimates. At least four Christians were murdered by jihadists in northern ...
New mass abduction of schoolgirls in northern Nigeria
category
The attack represents “a major blow to the education of young girls, which is already quite rare in these parts of the country,” say local ...
Nigeria: Priest abducted in the Archdiocese of Kaduna
category
The west African nation has been classified as suffering from severe, systematic, and ongoing religious freedom violations. Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has ...