![Media Release - National Emergency Appeal for Lebanon](https://d1jpo8rtg1c7nb.cloudfront.net/fileman/5f2b9984caf6c-Lebanon-Explosion.jpg)
National Emergency Appeal for Lebanon
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August will mark the anniversaries of nine other countries, namely Benin, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, the Central African Republic, the Republic of Congo (Congo Brazzaville), Gabon and Senegal.
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The most recent attack on a Christian in Pakistan has further increased the suffering and fear among Christians throughout the country.
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ACN International has condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist-style arson attack against the Catholic cathedral in Managua, the Nicaraguan capital.
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The Fazendas – the “Farms of Hope” - seek to give an answer to this suffering.
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Six years after IS-invasion a Church's reconstruction fuels Christian's hope.
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Campaign to free 14-year-old Christian girl in Pakistan.
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Mozambique: “The international community is nowhere to be seen in regard to the problem” in Cabo Delgado, says European deputy Paulo Rangel.
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“The Church draws her life from the Eucharist.” So begins the encyclical of Pope Saint John Paul II, Ecclesia de Eucharistia. The Second Vatican Council describes the Eucharist as the “Source and summit of the Christian life” (Lumen Gentium 11). All the r...
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“Let us welcome this time of trial as an opportunity to prepare for our collective future, a future for all, without discarding anyone. Because without an all-embracing vision, there will be no future for anyone.” Pope Francis, Second Sunday of Easter, 1...
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Evangelisation is the primary mission of the Church. The history of the Church is essentially a story of evangelisation.” This statement – by Pope Saint John Paul II in 1979 to the Latin American bishops in Puebla, Mexico –reflects the view of all the pop...
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John Paul II made history during his lifetime and became one of the giants of the 20th century – both in the history of the Church and of the wider world.
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by Jacques Berset. The news came through on 14 March 2020 – the first known case of infection with Covid-19 had been detected in Brazzaville. In response the Congolese government had imposed a general lockdown on the entire population.
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by Paulo Aido (edited by Maria Lozano). March 15 will mark the ninth anniversary of the start of the conflict in Syria. "The situation is terrible," said Sister Maria Lúcia Ferreira, a sister from the Mar Yakub Monastery in Qara, in the Christian region o...
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by Grace Attu. Today we the Catholic Bishops of Nigeria and with significant support of priests, consecrated persons and our beloved lay faithful embark on a peaceful protest against the high level of insecurity in every part of Nigeria.
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