Christians of Syria NEWS

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, [...]

A delegation of the International Pontifical Foundation, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) met the Holy Father Pope Francis on Thursday, August 15th 2019 in a gesture to pray for peace in solidarity with the Syrian people, console families who mourn the loss of their dearest ones and commemorate the victims of war. During [...]

ACN supports the reconstruction of 290 houses in ecumenical joint venture for all Christians in Homs, Syria by Irmina Nockiewicz The pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need celebrated the opening of the new reconstruction project in Syria on Friday, 31st May 2019. Over6,000 houses of Christian families were damaged during the war in [...]

Archbishop Bernardito Auza, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations and president of the Path to Peace Foundation, has praised Aid to the Church in Need (ACN)—the recipient of the 2019 Path to Peace Award—as “the leading organization in the world putting words to the persecution Christians are suffering in certain places [...]

Homs reconstruction committee “critical” to regrowth of Christian community An action plan to enable thousands of Christians to return to their homes in the Syrian city of Homs was agreed in a house-repair scheme involving Church leaders and a leading Catholic charity. At the meeting in Homs, the leaders of five Church communities signed the [...]