From a kitchen table volunteer effort to a well-loved charity raising $7 million each year, Aid to the Church in Need Australia and New Zealand (ACN) is celebrating 60 years of support for persecuted and suffering Christians.

A record 30 dioceses in Australia and New Zealand are commemorating Red November this month, to show solidarity with persecuted Christians suffering increased violence, persecution and human rights abuses worldwide.

Thanks to the support of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) benefactors, the Assumption Sisters of Eldoret are bringing hope and transformation to vulnerable young girls.

“What once was meant to be silenced has become a proclamation – Faith has survived, and hope is stronger than death.”

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

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...

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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...

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

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.

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...

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...

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