Ukrainian Bishop: “Before the war we had over 80 parishes, but more than half are closed, under occupation, or destroyed.”
Ukraine News 19 Aug 2025
Xavier Burgos
Ukrainian Bishop: “Before the war we had over 80 parishes, but more than half are closed, under occupation, or destroyed.”

An interview with the Greek-Catholic Bbishop of Donetsk, Maksym Ryabukha.

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DR Congo: Church condemns massacre of young Christians in Komanda and calls for justice
News 06 Aug 2025
Maria Lozano
DR Congo: Church condemns massacre of young Christians in Komanda and calls for justice

The local Church has raised its voice in condemnation and pain after attackers killed 37 Christian young people and wounded six more.

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Holy Land youth ‘breathe freedom’ at ACN-funded Summer Camps
News, Holy Land, Impact 01 Aug 2025
Filipe d’Avillez
Holy Land youth ‘breathe freedom’ at ACN-funded Summer Camps

More than 600 young people in the Holy Land have been able to experience a week of fun and freedom thanks to the local Church and pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). This year, because of the escalation of the conflict between Israel an...

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Dozens killed in another church massacre in the Congo
News 29 Jul 2025
Dozens killed in another church massacre in the Congo

The victims were participating in a prayer vigil when militants entered the church, shooting and hacking to death around 40 people.

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Nigeria: Kidnapped priest freed along with ten female hostages
News, Impact 27 Jul 2025
Maria Lozano
Nigeria: Kidnapped priest freed along with ten female hostages

We joyfully announce the release of Father Alphonsus Afina, a priest of the Diocese of Maiduguri, Nigeria, who had been abducted on 1 June 2025 by armed militants and spent 51 days in captivity.

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Syria: Church in Suwayda shelters up to 250 in siege emergency
News, Syria 23 Jul 2025
Maria Lozano
Syria: Church in Suwayda shelters up to 250 in siege emergency

The situation in the southern Syrian city of Suwayda, where fighting between different ethnic and religious communities has caused widespread bloodshed and suffering, remains dire. The attacks also affect Christian communities in the area.

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Attack on Catholic parish in Gaza: Three confirmed dead and nine injured
News, Holy Land 18 Jul 2025
Attack on Catholic parish in Gaza: Three confirmed dead and nine injured

The Catholic parish of the Holy Family in Gaza was severely damaged in a raid on Thursday morning of 17 July.

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Church leaders urge Israeli authorities to stop attacks on West Bank Christians
News, Holy Land 15 Jul 2025
Filipe d’Avillez and Maria Lozano
Church leaders urge Israeli authorities to stop attacks on West Bank Christians

Radical Jewish settlers have been attacking the Christian town of Taybeh with increasing violence, while the Israeli military and police ignore requests for help.

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Syrian priest on the situation of Christians: “We have the right to go to church and pray in peace”
News, Syria 27 Jun 2025
Blanca Tortosa
Syrian priest on the situation of Christians: “We have the right to go to church and pray in peace”

“We feel that we are alone”: Father Fadi Azar echoes the pain of the Christian community after the Damascus attack last Sunday.

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Syria: Deadly attack on St Elias Church in Damascus
News, Syria 22 Jun 2025
Maria Lozano
Syria: Deadly attack on St Elias Church in Damascus

Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is profoundly saddened and alarmed by the deadly attack that took place on Sunday 22 June during an evening service at the Greek Orthodox Church of St Elias in the Dweila district of Damascus, Syria. According to early repo...

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Nigeria: Up to 200 Christians dead in worst killing spree
News 17 Jun 2025
John Pontifex
Nigeria: Up to 200 Christians dead in worst killing spree

– Internally displaced families burned alive, shot dead and macheted –

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Situation in Gaza still “very bad”, says priest. “Nobody is talking about rebuilding”
News, Holy Land 23 May 2025
Situation in Gaza still “very bad”, says priest. “Nobody is talking about rebuilding”

For three months Gaza received no aid convoys, which meant that the parish had to ration the resources it has to feed the Christians within and some of the families that live nearby.

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ACN benefactors meet in Rome for the 2025 Jubilee
News 06 May 2025
ACN benefactors meet in Rome for the 2025 Jubilee

Over 1,000 benefactors of the pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), from 23 different countries – including 25 benefactors from Australia – have arrived in Rome for a Jubilee year pilgrimage starting 7 May 2025. The timing providentially...

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Haiti’s Way of the Cross continues: Two religious sisters murdered
News 04 Apr 2025
Haiti’s Way of the Cross continues: Two religious sisters murdered

Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) deeply laments the tragic loss of two religious sisters from the Congregation of the Little Sisters of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, who were brutally murdered on Monday, 31 March, by armed gangs in Mirebalais, around f...

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“Thank you for keeping the Christian presence alive in Jerusalem”
News, Holy Land, Impact 02 Apr 2025
Filipe d’Avillez
“Thank you for keeping the Christian presence alive in Jerusalem”

Life in Jerusalem’s Old City is difficult for the Christians who continue to live there, many of whom are poor. ACN has been providing help to struggling families through projects carried out by the Latin Patriarchate

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Burkina Faso: Helping catechists feed their families
Impact 01 Apr 2025
Burkina Faso: Helping catechists feed their families

Thanks to the help from ACN, the Burkinabé Diocese of Nouna has been able to supply six months of basic food to 30 internally displaced catechists in the parishes of Nouna, Solenzo and Saneba.

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Lebanon: How consecrated religious sisters are improving the lives of vulnerable girls
News, Impact 26 Mar 2025
Charlotte Halle & Lucia Ballester
Lebanon: How consecrated religious sisters are improving the lives of vulnerable girls

Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) spoke to Sister Marie Akl, a religious from the Congregation of the Good Shepherd, about her valuable work in the shelter for vulnerable young people in Nabaa, Lebanon, where children and adolescents manage to overcome thei...

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ACN help is “like the hand of God, saving lives” in Mozambique
News, Impact 26 Mar 2025
Paulo Aido
ACN help is “like the hand of God, saving lives” in Mozambique

A missionary sister who works in the Diocese of Pemba, which is racked by terrorism and deeply affected by a recent cyclone, thanks Aid to the Church in Need for the help it provides civilians.

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