Articles on this issue "Aid to the Church in Need"
Former government minister Ann Widdecombe says Christians need to put pressure on the UK government to stop the persecution of Christians overseas – and to stop it developing here. Speaking …
read morePeople escaping violence and oppression in Syria are to receive urgent help from a leading Catholic charity, which is making a series of grants across a region now gripped by a bitter winter. …
read moreBy John Newton The Catholic Church is helping to transform life on an island off the west coast of Africa through its interreligious and educational work -- with the help of charities in …
read moreSierra Leone is small country on the western coast of Africa with a population of 5 million and a wealth of natural resources, including diamonds, gold, bauxite and iron ore. The nation has …
read moreRemy Sandah would go to church in his rural Togo community so that he didn't have to work in the fields. Now the financial administrator of the General Council of the Marists, Brother Sandah …
read moreThe Church in Albania suffered massive and violent persecution under the communist dictator Enver Hoxa. Yet, communism -- unlike secularism -- was unable to take God out of people's hearts, …
read moreIn a country where 40% of the population lives below the poverty line, more than 20% of the population is afflicted with HIV/AIDS, and the average life expectancy is about 40 years, Bishop …
read moreBy John Newton The head of a U.K. Catholic charity has paid tribute to Belarus Cardinal Kazimierz Swiatek, who died last Thursday at the age of 96. Aid to the Church in Need's national …
read moreA lesser person would never have been able to manage it," says a coworker of Bishop Cesare Mazzolari, who died Saturday as he celebrated Mass, a week after the independence of the country he …
read moreBombing continues in the border region between Sudan and South Sudan, and the situation is threatening the peace of the world's youngest nation. The U.K. director of the international charity …
read moreMany Nigerians can quote the Bible from memory -- not because they've sat down with a Gospel and drilled the words into their heads. In a population that is only 68% literate, that is not the …
read moreA bishop from northeast Belarus is using many of the same evangelization tools as bishops in other countries, but the situation of his post-Communist nation does give some particularities to …
read moreThough the exodus of Christians from Iraq has been ongoing for several years, the international community is still largely unaware of the issue, which threatens to undermine peace in the …
read moreThe greatest source of tension in Nigeria is not between Christians and Muslims, but rather between rich and poor, says the archbishop of Abuja. Speaking to the television program "Where God …
read moreReligious freedom is perhaps growing in Vietnam, but it depends on the caprices of the government. So more than religious freedom, says Father Bernardo Cervellera, we can speak of a certain …
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