A dark weekend of Christian persecution
Nearly 30 Christians from three different countries were either killed or kidnapped over three days.
Filipe Avillez-ACN
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Church leaders deplore use of force by Israeli police during burial of Christian journalist
Israeli security forces are accused of having disrupted the funeral procession of Shereen Abu Aqleh, who was killed while covering an Israeli military operation in the Jenin refugee camp on May 11.
Egyptians love their national soccer team, but Christians feel left out
Stories abound of young boys who were turned away from big clubs at trials when it was revealed that they were Christians.
With Christians in danger of extinction in Syria and Lebanon, ACN funds vital projects
With Syria still locked in a decade-old civil war, and Lebanon struggling with an extreme financial, social, and political crisis many Christians are tempted to abandon their native lands, as hundreds of thousands already have.
Christians in Pakistan face poverty and Islamic hostility
“Christians are the poorest of the poor," Bishop Samson Shukardin of Hyderabad told Aid to the Church in Need
A Catholic missionary has sent out a plea for peace from war-torn Ethiopia
The conflict in Ethiopia, the oldest independent Christian country in the world, has created a dire humanitarian crisis.
From Fátima to Myanmar, children pray the Rosary to change the world
"When a million children pray the Rosary, the world will change.”
BREAKING: Church in Nigeria celebrates release of abducted seminarians
“Hearts filled with joy” describes the spirit of the Church in Nigeria following the release of three young seminarians who were abducted last Monday.
Church decries “slow genocide” of Christians in Nigeria
The Catholic Church in Nigeria claims that the Christians in that country are the victims of a process of ethnic cleansing at the hands of Fulani Muslims, with the complicity of the state.