Thousands of Christians in Africa and the Middle East, persecuted and displaced because of their faith, depend on the Church’s social and pastoral work – and the Church depends on you to continue helping them. Make a donation and bring the hope of Christmas to refugees!
Each number is a life, a story of loss, trauma, and suffering
As we entered 2021, the number of forcibly displaced people due to persecution, conflict, violence, and human rights violations was the highest on record (according to UNHCR data).
Africa saw the highest increase of internally displaced, and Syria remains the country from which the greatest number of people has been forced to flee.
SYRIA
LEBANON
“As a child I became a refugee, just like the Child Jesus, who also had to flee together with his dad and his mum”.
BURKINA FASO
“It was during Sunday Mass. The jihadists entered the church with guns, surrounding us. They killed the priest and five parishioners right in front of our eyes.”
MOZAMBIQUE
NIGERIA
CONGO
“It was from here, from Syria, Palestine, Jordan and what is today Israel, that the first Christians came”, explains Fr. Hugo Alaniz, an Argentinian missionary priest of the Institute of the Word Incarnate who has been living in the Middle East for 26 years.
“I believe that it is an obligation for us, as a Church, to help the Christians of the Middle East. Not only because of the fact that this is the Holy Land, but because it is thanks to them that we came to know the Gospel message… Our appeal to the benefactors of ACN is ‘please don’t forget us, please don’t forget our communities here who still need outside help’… Whatever you can continue contributing will have great significance, especially for these people, who have lost everything, who continue to be in great need, who need your help”.
Providing safe drinking water to thousands of refugees. This project aims to build a borehole that will run on solar panels. It will be located in the town of Pulka, accessible from all camps, and therefore accessible to everybody.
Bringing words of hope and comfort to the refugees. Support for the production of faith programs for the benefit of displaced persons in the Diocese of Ouahigouya.
Hot meals and spiritual accompaniment for refugees. «Saint John the Merciful Table» provides 1,500 daily hot meals to 900 Syrian refugees and 600 Lebanese in need in the Zahlé area and Bekaa Valley.
Emergency help for refugees from Cabo Delgado. Provide 500 families with basic needs such as food, mosquito nets, soap, household items, farming tools and seeds.
Meals on wheels for those left behind. Equipment and implementation of the «Meals on Wheels” project to feed the elderly of the Latin Vicariate in Aleppo.
Founded in 1947 as a Catholic aid organisation for war refugees and recognised as a Pontifical Foundation since 2011, Aid to the Church in Need is dedicated to the service of Christians around the world, through information, prayer and action, wherever they are persecuted, oppressed or suffering material need.
