Zimbabwe's recent re-imposition of a lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic has focused global attention once again on this distressed country.
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“His fate should be a wake-up call for the international community.”
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The international pontifical foundation ACN has received news of a jihadist attack on Fantio and Dolbel, two towns in the Tillabéri region, in southwestern Niger.
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How ACN is backing the family and the future of the children of Baghdeda (Qaraqosh).
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The economic and political crisis in Lebanon, home to the Middle East’s largest Christian community, has deepened ahead of a historic July 1 meeting between Pope Francis and Christian leaders from the country.
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Today ACN is able to tell the inspiring story of this courageous Mozambican catechist.
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An ACN programme is giving them new hope and equipping them to fight for a better future.
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The Maronite Archbishop Chucrallah-Nabil El-Hage is involved in the prayer initiative “Peace Day for the East,” which will bring together all of the Middle East beginning on Sunday 27 June. In an interview with the pontifical foundation Aid to the Church...
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Aid to the Church in Need (ACN International) welcomes the Day of Peace for the Middle East.
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Mission accomplished – a pickup truck for the Capuchin missionaries in Kpassa.
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A historic Lebanese church, that sustained severe damage in August 2020’s devastating blast, is on track to reopen in July 2021, thanks to help from ACN.
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Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) project partners denounce war conditions and inaction by the Nigerian government.
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Among the victims in the aftermath of the bloodiest terrorist attack since Islamist violence began are also Christians.
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“They are wounds that will be difficult to heal”, says Father Kwiriwi Fonseca of the diocese of Pemba in northern Mozambique.
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News of burned out villages and barbarous beheadings of individuals has become commonplace in this region.
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On the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Masses will be celebrated throughout the world for our benefactors.
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ACN welcomes the announcement of an emergency meeting in the Vatican.
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Christine du Coudray retires after 28 years at ACN International as head of project department for Africa.
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The targeting of young people, indiscriminate killings and widespread sexual violence – including the rape of nuns – is part of a genocide against the Tigrayan ethnic group of northern Ethiopia, according to a source close to the Church.
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