Month: August 2019

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ACN supports big gathering for young Christians in Iraq
The Ankawa Youth Meeting (AYM) 22nd to 24th of August brought together Christian youth from across seven archdioceses. The Meeting...
An important step, but one that needs to be followed by action
“The new day to commemorate the victims of religious violence is an important step to ensuring that more attention is...
Pope Francis blesses 6,000 rosaries for Syria: as part of a spiritual initiative by ACN to comfort the grieving.
On 15 August, the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Pope Francis, during the...
Syria: a mother, her son killed in the war, finds strength in her faith: ‘our roots must be planted in God’
Yolla Ghandour, a Syrian-Armenian Catholic and mother of three, lives in Aleppo. She saw some of the worst fighting of...
Boko Haram strikes back in Cameroon - Amputee women, the new tactic of terror
On the night of July 29, members of the terrorist group Boko Haram attacked the town of Gagalari [not Kalagari...
Summer camps in Syria – “She felt her heart had begun to beat again”
In the course of 2019 the international Catholic pastoral charity and pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN...