![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…
![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…
![With archive image of Maira Shahbaz © Aid to the Church in Need](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/0825Pakistan_Maira-Shahbaz-for-website-e1598343662894.jpg)
PAKISTAN: Christian girl, 14, abducted during lockdown
A mother in Pakistan has spoken of her distress after a man struck while the country was…
![Decapitated statue of Our Lady from Mar Qeryaqos Church, Batnaya, in northern Iraq’s Nineveh Plains.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/0513UK_decapitated-statue-scaled.jpg)
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…