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Supporting the Prison Apostolate in Ecuador
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Some time ago, we asked for your support for the prison outreach ministry in the Archdiocese of Guayaquil in Ecuador, a country in Latin America ...
ACN helps rebuild church burned down during street protests in Chile
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The Church of the Assumption was vandalized and set on fire in 2020. Some stories do have happy endings. On November 8, 2019, during a ...
Cuban religious help care for families and the sick amid economic crisis
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The Sisters of Charity of Cardinal Sancha occupy a special place in the hearts of many Cubans, who know they can count on the “Sanchinas” ...
“A bridge of love with Peru”: ACN’s collaboration with Pope Leo XIV
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The close collaboration between Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) and now-Pope Leo XIV blazed a trail of service and evangelization in Peru. From ...
The future pope was a fighter for the downtrodden, fellow missionary recalls
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Pope Leo XIV is a bishop who is “going to hear the cry of the suffering Church,” predicts a fellow Augustinian missionary who lived and ...
Help for the Training of Seminarians in Brazil
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The Diocese of Rio Branco lies in western Brazil. Large sections of this area of over 40,000 square miles are covered in rainforest. A remote ...
Two Outboard Motors for a Pastoral Riverboat in Colombia
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The apostolic vicariate of Guapi lies in southwestern Colombia, on the Pacific coast. The population here is mainly a mixture of Afro-Colombians and indigenous people. ...
“I was sick and alone, but the sisters took me in”: A priest’s testimony of how religious in Venezuela cared for him until the end
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Spanish priest Father Alfonso Delgado, who arrived in Venezuela in the 1970s with a group of fellow missionaries, gradually found himself alone as the years ...
Haiti’s Way of the Cross continues: Two religious sisters murdered
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Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) deeply mourns the tragic loss of two religious sisters from the Congregation of the Little Sisters of Saint ...
Support for Religious Sisters in the Dominican Republic
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Most people tend to think of the Dominican Republic as a holiday paradise, with idyllic sandy beaches. Many are astonished to discover that there is, ...