After years helping rebuild homes and infrastructure, Aid to the Church in Need is issuing an urgent call to the international community to help guarantee peace and stability in Iraq, as necessary conditions for economic development and job creation that will help communities, including Christians, to stay in their homeland.

Sr. Clara has a dream for the Christian children of Qaraqosh, Iraq. Understanding that education is key to securing the future of the next generation of Iraqi Christians, sr. Clara wanted to establish a secondary school in Qaraqosh. with the support of ACN, a new secondary school is set to

Father Ammar Yako: “It is part of our history” Al-Tahira Church in Qaraqosh (Baghdeda) was almost completely destroyed during the ISIS terror regime (2014-2017). Thanks to the generous support of ACN benefactors, the church has been rebuilt over the course of the last few years and is now almost fully

The St. Joseph clinic in Erbil provides medical care and medicine to about 3,000 patients per month. Most of them are chronically sick and need some specific medicine, which is often very expensive. All the people treated at the clinic are Internally Displaced. They had to flee their homes in

ACN is sad to announce the passing away of Dr. Emad Yaqoub Qeryaqos on Sunday 31th January in Lebanon at the age of 55, after long serious illness. Dr Emad, from Bartella, Iraq, worked closely with ACN as a member of the Nineveh Reconstruction Committee for the Syriac Orthodox Church

THE SAD REALITY IS THAT IT IS VERY RARE TO HEAR ABOUT GOOD NEWS COMING FROM IRAQ THESE LAST FEW DECADES. THIS WILL HOPEFULLY NOT BE THE CASE FOR 2021, ESPECIALLY AS THERE IS A VISIT TO THE MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRY BY POPE FRANCIS ORGANISED FOR MARCH THIS YEAR. ACN

The Pope’s decision to visit Iraq may prove vital to saving its ancient Christian community from extinction – according to one of the country’s most influential bishops. Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil, which is the capital of semi-autonomous Kurdish northern Iraq, told Catholic charity Aid to the Church

Iraq’s Christians have welcomed news that Pope Francis is set to go to Iraq next Spring – the first time any pontiff will have visited the country. Syriac Catholic Archbishop Nizar Semaan of Hadiab-Erbil warmly greeted the announcement made today (Monday, 7th December) that Pope Francis will visit Iraq from 5th-8th March

An Iraqi archbishop has accused the BBC of ignoring the plight of persecuted Christians in its recent documentary 'Once Upon a Time in Iraq'. Rt Rev Bashar Warda, the Chaldean archbishop of Arbil, claims that the stories of those oppressed because of their faith have been "airbrushed” out of the