![Bishop Matthew Kukah of Sokoto, Nigeria (Credit: Aid to the Church in Need)](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ACN-20160704-43171-e1578070065565.jpg)
NIGERIA: Bishop Kukah – ‘Genocide is happening in Nigeria’
Systematic violence against Nigerian Christians by Fulani herdsmen constitutes genocide, according to a leading Catholic bishop who…
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LEBANON: Charity offers emergency food package
An emergency food package of £226,000 (250,000EUR) is to be rushed out to Beirut by a leading…
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PAKISTAN: Maira – Calamity in the courtroom
The campaign to free a 14-year-old Christian girl from the clutches of a man who abducted her…
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NICARAGUA: Historic crucifix torched
A 400-year-old crucifix was set ablaze when Managua Cathedral suffered the latest in a series of anti-Christian…
![Christian ‘daily wage’ workers © Aid to the Church in Need](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/0402Pakistan_22967.jpg)
PAKISTAN: Minorities denied housing in Muslim areas
Hard-liners in Pakistan are forcing Christians out of Muslim neighbourhoods and refusing to give them lodgings, according…
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PAKISTAN: Breakthrough for Maira
A Christian mother in Pakistan has achieved a significant breakthrough in her struggle to win back her…
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MOZAMBIQUE: World turns its back as crisis worsens
As the crisis caused by the jihadist incursion into northern Mozambique worsens, the international community is failing…
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PAKISTAN: Court hope for abducted Catholic girl
ACN News Briefing The abductors of 15-year-old Catholic girl Huma Younus have been ordered to appear in…
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UK & INTERNATIONAL: UK charity boosts Church’s COVID help in Bangladesh and beyond
PPE for priests and religious reaching out to some of the poorest families in Bangladesh forms part…
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PAKISTAN: A lifeline for those on the breadline
A progress report on emergency aid dispatched at the height of the lockdown in Pakistan shows how…
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SYRIA: Cathedral rises up from the ashes of persecution
A restored cathedral in Aleppo, which was bombed countless times, is to be officially re-opened – a…
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PAKISTAN: Kidnapped Christian girl now pregnant from rape
A kidnapped Christian girl in Pakistan has phoned her parents to say she is pregnant after being…