null / Credit: ACN
CNA Newsroom, Aug 1, 2023 / 11:00 am (CNA).
As World Youth Day (WYD) kicks off in Lisbon, Portugal, this week, the international Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is launching several initiatives to raise aware… […]
Burned vehicles after Good Friday raid on April 7, 2023, in Ngban, Benue state, Nigeria. / Courtesy of Justice, Development, and Peace Commission
St. Louis, Mo., May 2, 2023 / 07:25 am (CNA).
Advocates for persecuted Christians in Nigeria are c… […]
City of Tripoli, Libya. / Credit: Shutterstock
Tripoli, Libya, Apr 18, 2023 / 08:23 am (CNA).
Last week Libya’s Internal Security Agency launched a campaign in the city of Tripoli to arrest Libyan citizens and foreigners accused of apostasy fro… […]
Janada Marcus, 22, was forced to flee Boko Haram with her family twice before the terrorists attacked them again, killing her father and kidnapping her. / Aid to the Church in Need
Washington D.C., Mar 8, 2023 / 08:20 am (CNA).
“Oh, what sorrow… […]
Syrian archbishop-elect Father Jacques Mourad. / Credit: ACN
ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 23, 2023 / 16:15 pm (CNA).
A Syrian priest, whose appointment as archbishop was confirmed by Pope Francis on Jan. 7, shared the difficult times he spent being he… […]
Pope Francis speaks at his general audience in Paul VI Hall on Jan. 18, 2023. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA
Vatican City, Jan 18, 2023 / 06:05 am (CNA).
Pope Francis invited Christians on Wednesday to pray for the grace to have a “pastoral heart” like Je… […]
Map of Nigeria. / Shutterstock
St. Louis, Mo., Dec 16, 2022 / 14:15 pm (CNA).
A Nigerian musician is taking a case to the country’s Supreme Court challenging a death sentence he was given in 2020 for “blasphemy,” a case his lawyers hope will ov… […]
Deacon Ebrahim Lallo, a Syriac Catholic Deacon from the town of Bartella, Iraq, painted the icon “Mary, Mother of Persecuted Christians,” which will be in the shrine in Clinton, Massachusetts. / Photo credit: Father Benedict Kiely
Boston, Mass…. […]
null / Shutterstock
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 23, 2022 / 15:00 pm (CNA).
Armed men kidnapped more than 80 Christians last week in attacks on two separate churches in north-central and northwest Nigeria, reported Morning Star News.On Sept. … […]
Tower Bridge, London / AC Wimmer / CNA
CNA Newsroom, Sep 8, 2022 / 03:14 am (CNA).
What may well be the first shrine in Europe dedicated to persecuted Christians will be blessed today in central London, UK.The Shrine of Mary, Mother of Persecut… […]
© Catholic World Report