Two powerful earthquakes in Venezuela have left communities shattered, with homes lost and many parish-owned properties damaged. Yet the Church remains - opening its doors to people in desperate need, offering them emergency humanitarian and spiritual support.
Since 2024, renewed violence and insecurity have destroyed homes, displaced families, and deepened the economic collapse. In this suffering, your compassion can make a real difference.
Aid to the Church in Need Ireland hosted its second National Pilgrimage to Knock Shrine on Saturday, May 16. This year’s very successful pilgrimage featured a special guest speaker from Jerusalem, Bishop William Shomali, who is the Auxiliary Bishop for the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.
The focus of this year’s pilgrimage was the Christian presence in the Holy Land and what the recent conflict has posed to the already beleaguered Christian community living in the region…
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Gregorian Mass: One Deceased Soul Only.
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Leading religious leaders and public figures gathered in Rome for the launch of the 2025 Religious Freedom in the World Report (RFR). This biennial report offers a detailed analysis of the state of religious freedom across the world.
The MIRROR is delivered monthly to friends and supporters of Aid to the Church in Need. It includes inspiring stories of change as well as highlighting the many injustices faced by Christians around the world today.
The MIRROR also serves as a tool of evangelisation. It inspires prayer and includes thought-provoking articles to help elevate the reader’s hearts and minds towards God the Father Almighty and towards their less fortunate brothers and sisters in Christ.
ACN is making an urgent appeal for prayer and support for the Christian community and all residents of Aleppo, Syria, who are facing a worsening humanitarian crisis.
As Ukraine faces war and crisis, the Catholic Church is determined to remain and minister to the faithful during their hour of need. ACN has worked with the Catholic Church in Ukraine for decades. We are committed to continuing to support the Church in Ukraine during these times, and since the full-scale invasion on 24 February 2022, ACN has approved 630 projects amounting to over €16.5 million.
The church in Ukraine is on a mission to heal these wounds and restore hope and happiness to those affected.
The ACN Journal provides the latest news about Aid to the Church in Need and our work protecting the rights of Christians and supporting the suffering and persecuted Church.
Help Christians to survive in the Holy Land. Help Sister Nabila with her mission in Gaza. Sister Nabila of the Rosary Sisters helps suffering families in Gaza. The last Christians of Gaza are seeking shelter in her school. She needs food, blankets and medicine.
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From the start of his papacy, Pope Leo has spoken of leading a renewed Church in a fractured world. Drawing on the background of Robert Prevost, and looking at the early days of his papacy, this book explores where he may lead the faithful and the wider human family.
Author: Michael Kelly
A Stations of the Cross in the company of modern martyrs who followed the Lord faithfully and with courage to their own Mount Calvary.
These meditations on the Way of the Cross are an invitation to reflect on the passion of Jesus in the light of the fact that so many Christians today continue to pay the ultimate price for their fidelity to the faith. By reflecting on the ‘martyrs of our times’, we seek to enter into prayerful solidarity with all Christians who suffer for their faith.
About the author: Canon Benedict Fee is parish priest of Clonoe, Co. Tyrone in the Archdiocese of Armagh.
Reflections on the Weekday Gospel Readings for the Liturgical Year 2025–26.
It is hoped that these reflections will serve as a help to personal prayer. Parish prayer groups may also find them helpful. They may also be of service to priests who seek to offer a short reflection on the readings of the day at the daily Eucharist. Where there is a weekday Liturgy of the Word in the absence of a priest, they can be read as a reflection on the readings. On most weekdays, the same readings are proclaimed in the Church throughout the world. To read and reflect upon the readings for the weekdays of the liturgical year is to go on a spiritual journey with the universal Church.
Reflections on the Sunday Readings for the Year of Matthew.
It is my hope that these reflections will help people of faith to listen to the word of the Lord, as the Church puts it before us in the Sunday readings for cycle A of the liturgical year. They come from my own efforts to listen prayerfully to the word of the Lord in the circumstances of my own life as a disciple of the Lord and a priest in a Dublin parish. Everyone who takes up this book could write a different set of reflections based on their own personal listening to the Lord’s word. As the Syrian Saint Ephrem, the renowned theologian-poet from the fourth century, wrote, ‘God has hidden in his word all kinds of treasures, so that each one of us, wherever we meditate, may be enriched by it. His utterance is a tree of life, which offers you blessed fruit from every side’.
Author: Fr Martin Hogan
This children's version of Bible presents key Biblical stories alongside colourful illustrations. Over 50 million copies of this Child's Bible have been printed and distributed since being developed by Aid to the Church in Need in 1979. The text is aimed for children aged six to nine and is ideal as a First Holy Communion Gift. Cum licentia ecclesiastica. Author: Eleonore Beck. Illustrator: Miren Sorne. Paperback: 144 pages.
Michael Kelly has led more than a dozen pilgrimages to the Holy Land. In this unique guidebook, he will take readers to the sites associated with the earthly life of Christ from Bethlehem to Nazareth, the Sea of Galilee to Jerusalem. Whether you are planning a trip to walk in the footsteps of Jesus, or simply want to deepen your understanding or faith this book is indispensable. This book will help the Gospel sites come alive and enhance readers' appreciation for the Holy Land. As well as the sites, there are chapters on the culture, food, wine and people that make up the fascinating mix that is the Holy Land today some 2,000 years after Christ walked in the land. With detailed maps, this book will appeal to travellers to the region and also serve as an enchanting insight for armchair pilgrims with an interest in the area or far-flung places in general.
The MIRROR is delivered monthly to friends and supporters of Aid to the Church in Need. It includes inspiring stories of change as well as highlighting the many injustices faced by Christians around the world today.
The MIRROR also serves as a tool of evangelisation. It inspires prayer and includes thought-provoking articles to help elevate the reader’s hearts and minds towards God the Father Almighty and towards their less fortunate brothers and sisters in Christ.
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