Lebanon is a unique country in the Middle East because it is based on a civil constitution, where freedom of conscience and expression are respected.

The Holy Father has asked the authorities of Sri Lanka for the truth about the Easter Sunday bombings of 2019.

One Christian community in Iraq had added cause for rejoicing this Easter when their church opened for services for the first time since the building was desecrated by Daesh (ISIS) militants nearly eight years ago.

ACN has been sending almost a million AUD in Mass stipends to support priests in Ukraine who continue to serve a war-weary and frightened people. Almost 1,900 Catholic priests are receiving these stipends, all over the country.

Aid to the Church in Need will continue to provide aid to the people of Ukraine.

ACN has just approved an emergency relief package for Latin Rite female congregations involved in charity work in the Archdiocese of Lviv, such as the Benedictines of Solonka, who opened the doors of their contemplative monastery to refugees.

After three years and at a cost of 2.5 million dollars, the government of Sri Lanka published an 88-volume report on the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings.

As the military invasion of Ukraine has reached its 46th day, the Pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has begun the second phase of its emergency aid package to the country.

Burundi, one of the smallest countries in Africa, has been going through a social and political crisis that erupted in 2015.

The Patriarch of the largest Christian Church in Lebanon expresses his most heartfelt gratitude to all the benefactors who make the work of ACN in this country possible. 

Millions of people have had to flee their homes to save themselves and their children, abandoning the regions of the east and south of Ukraine, and heading west.

On 25 March, in the Cathedral of Rumbek, South Sudan, Italian missionary Christian Carlassare was ordained bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Rumbek, a position that had been vacant for 10 years.

The bishop took part in an online conference at the international headquarters of ACN.

Towards the end of 2021, the Nigerian government announced that members of the terrorist organisation Boko Haram were being disarmed and reintegrated into society.

Regina Lynch recently returned from Damascus, where she represented ACN at a conference of the Catholic Church together with aid agencies serving the people of Syria.

Since the beginning of the war, the Archdiocese of Ivano-Frankivsk, in Western Ukraine, has been welcoming women and children refugees. ACN supports the archdiocese in this effort. Some of those who left everything behind spoke to ACN about their experie...

Enduring a war in the capital of Ukraine, Fr Lucas couldn’t feel much further from Brazil, where he was born and raised. Yet he refuses to leave the country and is moved by the many examples of hope that he has witnessed during this conflict.

A displaced mother talks about the aid she has received from the local Church.