Lebanon faces an extreme humanitarian crisis
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 is supporting the Church in Lebanon as it stands beside the people: feeding displaced families, helping children and adults recover from trauma, providing medicine to those in need, keeping Catholic schools open, and sustaining the priests, sisters and religious communities who refuse to abandon their flock.
Your gift offers vital refuge to families who fled with almost nothing. In the Maronite Eparchy of Saida, around 7,500 displaced people need shelter, food, and essentials. Through emergency support, your kindness brings food, fuel, and help to those who are frightened and exhausted.
Your compassion also heals wounded hearts. Conflict has left deep emotional scars, especially for children and vulnerable families. ACN-supported projects include the Metanoia Listening Centre for spiritual and psycho-social support, trauma healing for children, and medicine for 1,000 psychiatric patients.
Your faith gives young people hope. Catholic schools are vital to Lebanon’s future, offering education, stability, Christian formation, and a place of encounter for children from different communities. Many schools struggle to survive as families can no longer afford fees, and conflict disrupts education. Your help can help keep 87 Catholic schools open and provide tuition support for 1,250 families.
Your generosity strengthens a Church that stays. Across Lebanon, priests, sisters and lay workers continue to serve amid fear, poverty and uncertainty. The suffering of Lebanon is shared by communities across the country, but the Christian presence faces a particular long-term threat as emigration continues to weaken its historic roots. With your help, the faithful can find the strength to remain in their homeland with dignity.
Please donate today to Aid to the Church in Need and bring compassion to Lebanon. Your gift provides emergency aid, pastoral care, medicine, trauma support, education, and spiritual accompaniment. Any donation will support these or similar projects through Aid to the Church in Need.
Youth, Faith, and Resilience in Lebanon
Through the testimony of Marisha, this video reveals the courage of young Christians choosing to stay in Lebanon despite war, fear and the pressure to emigrate. Marisha shares how University Pastoral Ministry transformed her outlook, giving her strength, purpose and the motivation to work for peace.
Emergency Aid for Psychiatric Care in Lebanon
At the Hospital of the Cross, Sister Sofia describes the urgent struggle to care for some of Lebanon’s most vulnerable people. War and economic collapse have doubled the cost of food, fuel and essential psychiatric medicines, while staff salaries no longer cover basic living costs. The congregation cares for nearly 2,500 patients, many of whom have been rejected by society. Without help, Sister Sofia warns, these hospitals could be forced to close, leaving patients abandoned and without the dignity of proper care.
The mission of the Church in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley
Brother Christoph shares the mission of the Church in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley, especially within the Eparchy of Baalbek-Deir El Ahmar. Rooted in a rich monastic heritage and the legacy of Saint Marina the Monk, the community offers both practical and spiritual support to families displaced by war. They provide medicine, food, clothing and education, while also bringing comfort through prayer, accompaniment and pastoral care. In a land marked by fear and uncertainty, their presence is a sign of resilience, peace and enduring hope.