![St George’s Coptic Catholic Cathedral in Luxor after the destruction.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/0715Egypt.jpg)
EGYPT: Plans to build more churches as religious freedom returns
A decrease in the influence of Islamist extremism in Egypt has made it possible for Christians to…
![A Jesuit priest with novices in Bangladesh.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/0710Bangladesh.jpg)
BANGLADESH: Jesuits open their first training centre
The Society of Jesus has set up its first-ever novitiate in Bangladesh, where less than half a…
![Cross from the Chaldean church in Teleskuf on Iraq's Nineveh Plains.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/0709UK-scaled-e1720514999452.jpg)
UNITED KINGDOM: Crosses damaged by jihadists to join exhibition
Three crosses that suffered damage when extremists seized Iraq’s Nineveh Plains are to be added to an…
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NIGERIA: Kidnapped priest goes free
Nigerian priest Father Mikah Suleiman was released last night (Sunday, 7th July) after more than two weeks…
![Bishop Samson Shukardin of Hyderabad.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/0603Pakistan-e1717424545945.jpg)
PAKISTAN: Desperate plea for Christian man put on death row
The head of the Catholic Church in Pakistan has lambasted a court for passing the death sentence…
![Ukrainian Redemptorist Fathers Ivan Levytsky and Bohdan Geleta in Russian detention (© Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church)](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/0701Ukraine-e1719839189532.jpg)
UKRAINE: Priests freed from Russian captivity
Two Ukrainian Greek Catholic priests have been released 19 months after they were seized by Russian authorities…
![The ruins of the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Mocímboa da Praia, Mozambique.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/0627Mozambique-e1719492223917.jpg)
MOZAMBIQUE: Church destroyed but Christian community standing strong
Four years after Islamist extremists destroyed their church, Catholics in a north-east Mozambique parish are still gathering…
![Archbishop Joseph Arshad and Senator Tahir Khalil Sindu visiting the Sargodha police headquarters after the attack.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/0528Pakistan-e1716892902527.jpeg)
NEWS BRIEFING: Widow of Pakistan mob attack victim dies
Alla Rakhi, the widow of the Nazir Gill Masih, has died. Their family home in Sargodha was…
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NEWS BRIEFING: Yet another Nigerian priest is kidnapped
Father Mikah Suleiman, the parish priest of St Raymond Damba Church in Damba, Gasau, Zamfara State was…
![Regina Lynch at the opening of the new ACN national office in Slovakia in 2017.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/0601International-scaled.jpg)
INTERNATIONAL: Charity raises £121 million to help Christians in need
Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) completed 5,573 projects in 138 countries last year,…
![The aftermath of an attack on a hospital in DRC in 2022.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/0620DRC-e1718896340510.jpeg)
DRC: Bishop calls on authorities to end killings after latest slaughter
A Congolese bishop has made a fresh plea for the country’s leaders to stop the armed conflict…
![Archeparch Charbel Abdallah of Tyre.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/0619Lebanon-e1718812689603.jpg)
LEBANON: Church scrambling to help people living ‘in a state of war’
Renewed prayers for an end to the conflict in the Middle East are urgently needed – according…