![Syriac Catholic Archbishop Nathaniel Nizar Semaan of Hadiab-Erbil.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/0109Iraq_Archbishop-Nizar-Semaan-e1578578354478.jpg)
IRAQ: Fresh violence threatens our future
A bishop from Erbil – where Iran carried out missile attacks – has warned that any continuation…
![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: Government are Islamic fundamentalists without bombs, says bishop
The beheading of 10 Christians by Islamist militants in Nigeria has sparked a condemnation by a bishop…
![Bashar, Lina and Elias Ghattas (Left to right) (Credit: Aid to the Church in Need)](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/1223Syria-Credit-ACN-e1577099405462-scaled.jpg)
SYRIA: Home for Christmas… for the first time in eight years
A Christian family from Syria have described their joy at being home for Christmas for the first…
![Image: Father Andrzej Halemba (Credit: Aid to the Church in Need)](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/1218MiddleEast_Father-Andrzej-Halemba.jpg)
Fresh risk of genocide to Middle East Christians
Middle East Christians are at direct risk of a second genocide which threatens them with wipe-out from…
![Sister Annie Demerjian with children at Christmastime (Credit: Aid to the Church in Need)](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/1216Syria-e1576573652305.jpg)
SYRIA: Sister thanks charity for bringing smiles to 19,000 children this Christmas
THOUSANDS of Syrian children will be smiling this Christmas thanks to a leading Catholic charity – according…
![](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/My-Post-12.jpg)
UK: Country sees red over persecution of Christians and other faiths
• UK officials back #RedWednesday for first time…
![Coptic Catholic Bishop Kyrillos William of Assiut (© ACN)](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/1120Egypt-e1574246627402.jpg)
EGYPT: After decades of persecution ‘things are getting better’ for Christians
Despite the ongoing threat of extremist attacks in Egypt, the situation is improving for the country’s Christians…
![ACN UK Head of Press & Information John Pontifex and the Very Rev Dr Sebastian Jones, Moderator of the Cardiff Oratory in Formation (© Aid to the Church in Need)](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/1114UK_Syria-e1573739238982-scaled.jpg)
UK: 50 sit down to dinner and raise £5,000
Emergency and pastoral help totalling £5,000 is to be despatched to Syria thanks to a group of…
![Father Hovsep Bedoyan (Credit: Aid to the Church in Need)](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Syrian-priest-killed-e1573482779461.jpg)
SYRIA: Murdered Syrian priest was gunned down for his Faith
An Armenian-Catholic archbishop has spoken out about the murder of a priest of his Church which ISIS…
![A bonfire of the of the church furniture and statues (Credit: 24horascl)](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/1112Chile-for-website-e1573578297965.jpg)
CHILE: Priest whose church was desecrated warns the faithful against seeking retribution
A priest, whose church in Chile was attacked and covered in satanic imagery and graffiti by hooded…