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Today marks two important days in our ACN calendar, the Feast of the Sacred Heart, a day of thanksgiving for Christ’s love, mercy and compassion for mankind. Such is the importance of this day, that we have chosen it as our special ACN Benefactors' Day, a day for all of us at ACN to devote to you, our wonderful benefactors, who make all the work we do possible. 

Your unwavering support, love, and compassion for the suffering and persecuted faithful around the world is a constant reminder of what this Feast Day represents. It is a celebration of the Christian values that underpin your support for our work.

We want to share this short video with you as a heartfelt Thank You for all that you do. We also have a small page with images and messages from project partners and beneficiaries whose lives have been changed for the better thanks to your donations and prayers. You can view them by clicking the button below.

- God bless you -.

PS:  Don’t forget – our team will be doing a Thank-a-Thon today, so don’t be surprised if you hear from us!! 

ACN NEWS

SYRIA: 25 KILLED IN SUICIDE ATTACK IN DAMASCUS CHURCH

More than 25 people were killed and dozens more injured in an explosion at a church in the Syrian capital last Sunday during an evening service.

The attacker fired at worshippers before detonating his suicide vest in the Greek Orthodox Church of St Elias in Damascus’ Dweila district, according to local reports.

Read the full article here>>

ACN is supporting Christian communities in Syria – including the Antiochian Greek Orthodox Church – through emergency and pastoral aid programmes. Last week we launched our Appeal to help Christians in the Holy Land, and we continue to ask for your support.

ACN PRAYER

POPE LEO XIV: FEAST OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS

As a Pontifical Foundation of the Catholic Church, we are delighted to bring to you this very touching prayer composed by Pope Leo XIV for today’s Feast of the Sacred Heart:

Lord, I come to your tender heart today,
to you who have words that set my heart ablaze,
to you who pour out compassion on the little ones and the poor,

on those who suffer, and on all human miseries.

I desire to know you more, to contemplate you in the Gospel,
to be with you and learn from you
and from the charity with which you allowed yourself
to be touched by all forms of poverty.

You showed us the Father’s love by loving us without measure
with your divine and human heart.

Grant all your children the grace of encountering you.
Change, shape, and transform our plans,
so that we seek only you in every circumstance:
in prayer, in work, in encounters, and in our daily routine.

From this encounter, send us out on mission,
a mission of compassion for the world
in which you are the source from which all consolation flows.

Amen.

ACN EVENTS

ACN BENEFACTORS DAY LIVE STREAM @6pm

ACN SHOP

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