Christians of Syria NEWS

Regarding the passing of the Syrian Orthodox Metropolitan of Homs “A man who has suffered with his people and for his people.” This is the way Regina Lynch, project director of the Aid to the Church in Need foundation (ACN), remembers Mgr Selwanos Boutros Alnemeh, the Syrian Orthodox Archbishop of Homs, who died Monday night, [...]

ACN will be donating 25,000 anoraks for Syrian children this Christmas For centuries Christians have been celebrating the greatest of all gifts to mankind, the coming of God into the world, with gifts and presents, especially for the youngest ones. Moreover, in doing so they are following the tradition of Bethlehem, when shepherds and wise [...]

"The Syrian People have been Brutally Driven into Poverty." Interview with the Jesuit Msgr. Antoine Audo, the Chaldean Bishop of Syria By: Maria Lozano In Europe, or rather countries of the West, hardly anyone is still talking about Syria. Is the war there really over? No, the war is not over yet, particularly not in [...]

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 coordinator for Asia-Africa, covering [...]

Thomas Heine-Geldern, the Executive President of Aid to the Church in Need described the restoration of the Cathedral as "A Miracle." The Cathedral of St. Elijah in Aleppo, destroyed during the Syrian war, rises from the ashes ACN - Maria Lozano Archbishop Tobji: “The restoration of the Cathedral is proof that [...]

According to Maronite Archbishop Samir Nassar of Damascus, the continuity of the humanitarian aid projects within the country is in danger. by: Maria Lozano Archbishop Samir Nassar of the Archeparchy of Damascus (Maronite) in Syria The economic situation in Syria is growing worse. “The present crisis, which is different to what we experienced [...]

Syria: Today is a day of celebration Celebrating the inauguration of the newly restored church of Haret Saraya, destroyed by jihadists in 2012 Marmarita/Königstein. – Evening is falling in the Valley of the Christians. From its high vantage point the Crusader fortress, the Crac des Chevaliers, built in the 11th-12th century, looks down impassively on [...]

“THE WAR IN SYRIA IS NOT OVER AND ISIS IS STILL HERE”, ARMENIAN CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF ALEPPO TELLS ACN “The war in Syria is not yet over. We continue to feel the presence of ISIS”. This was the view expressed by Armenian Catholic Archbishop Boutros Marayati of Aleppo, in a telephone conversation with the international [...]

On the way to Deir ez-Zor (Syria), terrorists kill Armenian Catholic priest and his father Aid to the Church in Need received a dramatic news that Father Hovsep Apraham Bidoyan of the Armenian Catholic Church in Qamishli has been killed today in the morning. The unrest at the North of Syria continues. Already hundreds of [...]

In Rome on Thursday, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) presented its research on the persecution of Christians, which details the systematic violence against Christians that still occurs throughout the world. By Vatican News "We are living in a state of perennial tension, because in our minds we know that somewhere, at some time, [...]

Fr. Dr. Andrzej Halemba from the Pontifical Foundation “Aid to the Church in Need” receives the "Pro Redemptione" Award Poland, 19 October 2019 Today, during a ceremony at the Major Seminary of the Redemptorist Congregation in Poland Fr. Andrew Halemba PhD, director of the Middle East section of the Pontifical Foundation “Aid to the Church [...]

NEW GESTURE OF SUPPORT BY THE POPE FOR ACN’S SYRIA CAMPAIGN: AFTER 6000 ROSARIES, THE POPE ALSO BLESSED A MARIAN ICON On the same day that the 6000 rosaries blessed earlier, on 15 August, by the Pope were distributed in the parishes of Syria, Pope Francis also blessed the icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary, [...]