Aid to the Church in Need – ACN
Programmes about the Charity’s work amongst persecuted Christians around the World
Presented by Clare Creegan
Programme 01 – Focuses on the situation for Christians in Pakistan. Including Joseph Coutts, Archbishop of Karachi, on his ongoing inter-faith work there
Programme 02 – Describes its vital work in Iraq and Syria amid the ongoing crisis. Highlight: life and death of a modern martyr – Father Ragheed Ganni
Programme 03 – China: with Fr Bernardo Cervellera, Director of the Catholic news agency Asia News about the ongoing situation for Christians there
Programme 04 – The revival of the Church in Ukraine, plus an ACN Parish Representative on how people at home can contribute to the Charity
Programme 05 – Christians in Nigeria. Presenter Clare Creegan discusses the problems in the region and Catholic Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah of Sokoto outlines the underlying causes of terrorist militia Boko Haram.
Programme 06 – Describes ACN’s vital work in Sudan and South Sudan amid the ongoing crisis. The life of Auxiliary Bishop of Khartoum, Daniel Adwok – a staunch advocate for a Church under pressure from militant Islam and extreme poverty.
Programme 07 – Carnegie-Medal nominated author Corinna Turner talks about the release of her novella Someday, inspired by the tragic story of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped in April 2014
Programme 08 – The desperate situation for children in the Democratic Republic of Congo as reports emerge of the use of child soldiers and finds out how the Catholic charity is helping
Programme 09 – Focuses on the situation in Egypt. ACN’s Mark Riedemann hears from Bishop Boutros Hanna about the situation for Christians there
Programme 10 – The charity’s work in Brazil including the life and work of Father Gino Alberati, a Capuchin priest who navigates the waters of the Amazon River in order to reach his people
Programme 11 – ACN speaks to His Excellency Archimandrite Nicolas Antiba, the Catholic Greek Melkite Metropolitan of Bosra, Hauran and Jabal Al-Arab in Syria about the situation of Christians suffering in Aleppo
Programme 12 – Focusing on Syria and the ongoing conflict. Host Mark Riedemann interviews His Beatitude Patriarch Gregorius Laham III, the spiritual leader of the Greek Melkite Catholic Church in Syria about the effects of the war
Heroic Priests – written by ACN, presented and produced by Jacque Frances
Fr Andrea Santoro – reaching out to people abandoned by society in Turkey and the Middle East
Fr Benigo Beltran – working alongside so-called scavenger residents living on one of the world’s largest
rubbish dumps in the Philippines
Fr Bernard Digal – worked in India attacked in August 2008 at the height of anti-Christian violence in Orissa state
Fr Ricahrd Coutts – working towards better interfaith dialogue in Pakistan
Fr Daniel Adwok – devoting his life to supporting and defending Christians in the Sudan
Fr Frano Dusaj – working amongst the needy in Montenegro
Fr John Han Dingxiang – showing great courage in China
Fr Michael Shields – who left Alaska for the freezing temperatures of the town of Magadan in Siberia
Fr Peter Sheckleton – working with indigenous peoples on tributaries of the Amazon in Brazil
Fr Ragheed Ganni – who was gunned down one Sunday after Mass close to his church in Iraq
Fr Richard Ho Lung – servant of the poor in Jamaica
Fr Vasyl Semenyuk – serving the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church