Naz Bano has been praying since 2016 for momentum in the movement to seek sainthood for her 20-year-old son, Akash Bashir, who was killed while preventing a suicide bomber from entering the crowded St. John’s Catholic Church.

The death of the Syrian Orthodox Archbishop of Homs.

The executive president of ACN International, Dr Thomas Heine-Geldern, has released the following statement:

Iraq’s Christians have welcomed news that Pope Francis is set to go to Iraq next Spring – the first time any pontiff will have visited the country.

After two years living as a captive in the desert, somewhere between Niger and Mali, the Italian missionary Father Pierluigi Maccalli , who was received by the Pope on 9 November 2020, recalled his first impressions in an interview conducted by the SMA Me...

Not only is the weather harsh and cold north of the Arctic Circle, but the religious climate is also anything but pleasant at times for the handful of Catholics living in the Norwegian city of Harstad on the island of Hinnøya. Aid to the Church in Need (A...

A day to stand up for persecuted Christians!

Bishops condemn corruption and the unjust treatment of Catholics.

Many communities all over the world are suffering such debilitating poverty that the faithful are not able to support their priests financially.

This new report highlights innocent Christians held against their will.

ACN will be donating 25,000 anoraks for Syrian children this Christmas.

The Pontifical Foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) interviewed Rev. Fr. Blaise Agwon, director of the Centre for Dialogue, Reconciliation and Peace in Jos, the capital of Plateau State in the central belt region of central Nigeria.

ACN is helping to rebuild the sisters’ convent on the ninth floor of the hospital building.

"The Armenian people have always come back again from the midst of indescribable calamities."

An Interview with Jesuit Antoine Audo, the Chaldean Bishop of Aleppo in Syria.

Maria Lozano, head of press and information at the charity’s international headquarters, spoke to Father Raymond Abdo, the provincial of the discalced Carmelite Fathers in Lebanon, to find out more about the life of the Christians in this country.

ACN supports the reconstruction of the Church of Saint Saviour in Beirut.

New massacres by jihadists – the number of refugees is growing daily.