![Image: Father Andrzej Halemba (Credit: Aid to the Church in Need)](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/1218MiddleEast_Father-Andrzej-Halemba.jpg)
INTERNATIONAL: Farewell to the fearless Good Samaritan
A priest, who is retiring from a leading Catholic charity after 14 years risking his life to…
![Leah Sharibu (© Aid to the Church in Need)](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/ACN-20181214-81363-e1546443886925.jpg)
NIGERIA: ‘Leah Sharibu must have been raped and forced to convert’
A Nigerian cleric close to the family of kidnapped schoolgirl Leah Sharibu has rejected rumours that the…
![The Catholic Church in Mocímboa da Praia was attacked by armed extremists on 27th and 28th of June 2020.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/ACN-20200706-102926-1-e1594138279118.jpg)
EU & MOZAMBIQUE: EU says Mozambique in danger of becoming new centre of jihadist extremism
Alarmed by jihadist attacks in northern Mozambique, the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs has called for…
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PAKISTAN: Grand Mufti’s Fatwa of hope
A Christian family in Pakistan fighting for the return of a 14-year-old girl reportedly abducted from her…
![Syriac Catholic priest Father George Jahola next to the remains of the belltower of the Syriac Catholic Mar Benham Church in Baghdeda (Qaraqosh)](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ACN-20191007-92302-e1592397600261-scaled.jpg)
IRAQ: Charity accuses international community of failing Iraq’s Christians
If the international community does not take immediate action, forced emigration could decimate what remains of the…
![Families who fled Mocímboa da Praia, Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique after it was attacked by Al Sunnah wa Jama’ah on 26th June 2020.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/0702Mozambique-3-e1593700318456.jpeg)
MOZAMBIQUE: ‘Islamist terrorists now want the whole province’
Jihadists wreaking havoc in the north of Mozambique are determined to seize the whole of Cabo Delgado…
![Pictures of Nineveh Plane and Mosul camp after liberation from ISIS. Photo: Jaco Klamer, klamer-staal.nl](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/c.Jaco-Klamer_ACN-20161125-48699-scaled.jpg)
BLOG: Time for a rethink on UK overseas aid
Be it in Iraq, Syria, Pakistan or Nigeria, project partners of Aid to the Church in Need…
![Central African Republic, Bangui: Refugee Camp on the compound of the Carmelite Monastery](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/ACN-20140602-09518.jpg)
AFRICA: As persecution grows in Africa, ACN meets the need
With attacks on Christians rising across Africa, a leading Catholic charity has announced that the continent was…
![Sisters from the Trappist Monastery of Murhesa. The contemplative Sisters have been by threatened militia groups and one Sister was shot dead.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/0622DRC-e1592833753663-scaled.jpg)
DRC: Charity offers vital lifeline to Sisters in the Congo
To ensure the survival of almost 70 communities of Sisters ministering in part of the Democratic Republic…
![The Sisters of St Elizabeth have been working in Russia for more than 25 years and continue to do so during the pandemic.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ACN-20200610-102048-e1592575538612.jpg)
BLOG: Sisters in Siberia supporting the people during the COVID-19 crisis
Very few have fallen ill, but all who live in the million-strong west Siberian city of Novosibirsk…
![A Ukrainian Greek-Catholic priest in the Archeparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk celebrating the Divine Liturgy in an empty church because of the COVID-19 lockdown](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/0617International_web-e1592381988697-scaled.jpg)
INTERNATIONAL: One Mass celebrated every 23 seconds for charity’s supporters
Mass was celebrated roughly every 23 seconds somewhere around the world in 2019 for the intentions of…
![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: Corruption and weakness are killing us
Weak and corrupt government in Nigeria is to blame for conflict spiralling out of control, according to…