![A street scene in Lahore, Pakistan.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ACN-20190729-89832.jpg)
PAKISTAN: Blasphemy case postponed nearly 70 times
The lawyer fighting the conviction of a Christian man serving a life sentence for blasphemy in Pakistan…
![A lay member of Brazil's Shalom Community delivers a food parcel during the pandemic](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/0609Brazil-e1591629360716.jpg)
BRAZIL: Fresh aid for Church communities crippled by COVID-19
BRAZIL – which has the second highest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the world – is…
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PAKISTAN: Family of abducted girl, 14, take case to High Court
A Christian family in Pakistan have gone to the High Court in their fight to win back…
![Residents in Khushpur, an almost entirely Christian village in Faisalabad Diocese.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/0529Pakistan_1.jpg)
PAKISTAN: Help for the poorest of the poor
More than 5,000 of the poorest families in Pakistan are to receive food and other COVID-19 emergency…
![Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako, head of the Chaldean Catholic Church from Iraq, speaking at the conference](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Iraq_Patriarch-Sako.jpg)
IRAQ: Please stay at home
The leader of Iraq’s largest Christian community has issued an urgent plea for people to stay at…
![Emergency help for families with food basket in Homs and support to help protect them against the coronavirus.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/0521Syria_1-e1590072497902.jpeg)
SYRIA: Aid for 20,000+ families as COVID-19 threat grows
More than 20,000 families in Syria are to benefit from an emergency COVID-19 aid package just approved…
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PAKISTAN: Christian girl, 14, abducted during lockdown
A mother in Pakistan has spoken of her distress after a man struck while the country was…
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UNITED KINGDOM: Suffering but with a heart full of hope
At a live-streamed Mass for Aid to the Church in Need, the charity’s UK chaplain invited ACN’s…
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PAKISTAN: Christians denied COVID-19 aid
NGOs and Muslim leaders in Pakistan stand accused of refusing to give COVID-19 emergency aid to Christians…
![IDP families have fled the terror in the north of the country.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/0507Burkina-Faso_web-e1588847152941-scaled.jpg)
BURKINA FASO: Terrorists are driving us out
Escalating jihadist activity in Burkina Faso is turning dozens of populated areas into ghost towns – according…
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NIGER: Fears that COVID-19 riots could lead to Church attacks
Niger’s Christians fear they could be attacked, following violent protests by “fundamentalist Muslim extremists” over COVID-19 bans…
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MOZAMBIQUE: Bishop speaks out following attacks blamed on ISIS
A bishop in Mozambique has spoken out about a spate of devastating attacks by jihadists – including…