Farewell to the fearless Good Samaritan – to the retirement of Father Halemba
A PRIEST, who is retiring from a leading Catholic charity after 14 years risking his life to bring aid to the Church in need, has been named a modern-day Good Samaritan by Iraq’s most senior Christian leader. Monsignor Andrzej Halemba served as Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) projects
Iraq’s Christians Remain at Risk of Eradication
Catholic Foundation warns of lack of security as the main reason for forced emigration The Catholic charity and international pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has published the report, “Life after ISIS: New challenges to Christianity in Iraq” which includes the results of a series of surveys
Patriarch Sako: Please Stay at Home!
Patriarch in urgent appeal as COVID-19 cases top 5,000 The leader of Iraq’s largest Christian community has issued an urgent plea for people to stay at home amid growing fears that the country cannot cope with a spiralling number of COVID-19 cases. Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako said
The Resurrection of Al-Tahira
In the Third Station of his Way of the Cross (Jesus falls for the first time), Pope Saint John Paul II begins his contemplation in these words: “Jesus falls beneath the burden of the Cross. He falls to the ground. He does not seek refuge in his supernatural powers, does
Popular Demonstrations: A Source of Hope for Change
Mgr Najeeb Michaeel Moussa, a Dominican, is Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Mosul and Akra. He was interviewed by Amélie de La Hougue of the international Catholic pastoral charity ACN International. He spoke about the situation of Christians in Iraq, from the time when anti-government demonstrations were still continuing in the country,
Batnaya is back – ACN to help rebuild flattened Christian village
A massive programme has just received the go ahead to help revive a Christian village in Iraq, which was almost completely razed to the ground after being seized by Daesh (ISIS). The plan for Batnaya devised by Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) will involve restoring the
Christians could face total eradication from countries such as Iraq and Syria
Middle East Christians are at direct risk of a second genocide which threatens them with wipe-out from the lands of the Bible. Christians could face total eradication from countries such as Iraq and Syria, where they have existed since the time of Christ’s first apostles. Father Andrzej Halemba, head of
Msgr Bashar Warda Address to the United Nations Security Council
An ACN partner, Msgr Bashar Warda, Chaldean Catholic Archdiocese of Erbil in Iraq, gave an address to the United Nations security council on December 3rd. Here is what he had to say to the international community. Address of Archbishop Bashar Warda, Kurdistan Region, Iraq To: UN Security Council, New York. December
ACN looks to next phase of rebuilding war-torn Christian region in Iraq, ravaged by ISIS
It was only in March of this year that ISIS lost the final vestiges of its “caliphate” in Syria, and last week that Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, the world’s most notorious terrorist, died in a shootout with American soldiers. Meanwhile, life in a Christian region to the north of Mosul, the