Articles on this issue "Aid to the Church in Need"
The murder of an Orthodox Christian father of four on May 31 in Mosul has increased a feeling of pessimism among Christians about prospects for a peaceful future in Iraq. Chaldean Archbishop …
read moreChristians in Pakistan face serious persecution, but the problem is not that they are a tiny minority in an overwhelmingly Muslim country. In fact, says Dominican Father Patrick Peter, …
read moreAt only 44 and with already two years of episcopal experience, Bishop Valentine Tsamma Seane carries a heavy charge on young shoulders. But the ordinary of Gaborone in Botswana says that his …
read moreThe communist regimes in Cambodia took the lives not only of 2 million people, but also robbed the nation of its culture and history, such that young people today are starting families without …
read moreWar is never far away, a resident in south Lebanon told the U.K. director of Aid to the Church in Need, who was in the Middle East to witness Sunday's clashes between Palestinians and …
read moreThe Church in Ethiopia traces its history to the Apostle Philip, who baptized an Ethiopian as is recorded in the Acts of the Apostles. Today, the country maintains its Christian majority, …
read moreSuffering is part of the history and the very being of the Haitian people, says Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Lafontant. It's a suffering that brings Haitians to relate to the Suffering Christ and …
read morePilgrims at the national Marian shrines of Scotland and England gathered to remember that martyrdom and persecution for the faith are not things of the past, and to pray for suffering members …
read moreThough Christian roots in northern Iraq stretch back for centuries, as many as 80% of young Christians in the area want to snip those roots and move on to someplace with more promise. But …
read moreA red cross is associated with caring for the sick because of a 17th-century Italian saint named Camillus. The founder of the Ministers of the Sick, he is the patron of the sick and nurses. …
read moreAn international charity is sponsoring an event so that the highest form of support is given to the suffering Church: prayer. Aid to the Church in Need will close April with a "Pilgrimage of …
read moreThe Muslim community in Zambia is small -- but its presence has been increasingly felt in the last three decades, according to a professor from the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic …
read moreSister Severina Motta is a Canossian Missionary who has spent more than 40 years in Africa. For more than a dozen of those years, she's been in Sudan, where she came to know “her saint," St. …
read moreA report recently published by Aid to the Church in Need gives a round-up of how Christians are being persecuted in many countries. In particular it looked at the very difficult conditions in …
read moreThe lay Living Water community in Trinidad and Tobago is taking their cable Channel 10 broadcasting to 24-hour service. The expansion is made possible by a grant from Aid to the Church in …
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