Projects

Aid to the Church in Need helps fund more than 5,000 projects a year to help persecuted and suffering Christians around the world. Find out about the key areas of the Church’s work which we support.

A priest ministers communion to young Catholics at an outdoor Mass in Montenegro. Photo: Aid to the Church in Need

Priests

Priests are the lifeblood of the Church – but in so many poverty-stricken dioceses they rely on your support to enable them to carry out their ministry. Through your Mass offerings and gifts, Aid to the Church in Need is helping these servants of God.
Stanislaw Bovsunouskiy, a seminarian at the Seminary of Our Lady, Mother of All Nations in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. Photo: Aid to the Church in Need

Seminarians

Every year Aid to the Church in Need helps more than 15‚000 seminarians around the world training for the priesthood. Your support for these priests of tomorrow is vital to the future of the Church.
A Chinese Sister. Photo: Aid to the Church in Need

Sisters

Religious Sisters provide a vital service to Christian communities around the world, teaching catechesis, nursing the sick and elderly and helping priests in their parishes. Thousands of Sisters are praying for you, in thanks for your support.
A Sister in Costa Rica leading a mule. Photo: Aid to the Church in Need

Transport for priests and Sisters

Aid to the Church in Need provides transport for priests and Sisters in areas where they have to travel vast distances over rough terrain to reach Christian communities. Find out about the bicycles, cars, boats, mopeds and donkeys you have provided.
Catholics outside a village Church in Vietnam. Photo: Aid to the Church in Need

Building churches and chapels

The church is the focal point of life for millions of suffering Christians around the world. Aid to the Church in Need is helping parishes build chapels and churches so they can celebrate the Eucharist fittingly.
Pupils at Saint Maroun School in Beit Eddine, Lebanon, where Christian and Druze children learn side by side. Photo: Aid to the Church in Need

Christian education for children

For so many children around the world, the education they receive at Christian schools is a lifeline to a brighter future. And for the Church, the schools are helping to nurture the Faith.

 
Father Angelo teaching the Faith to young Catholics in Kosti, Sudan. Photo: Aid to the Church in Need

Teaching the Faith

Thanks to you, many Christians are able to learn more about their faith through catechesis classes. We support programmes training lay people to teach the Faith as well as providing catechetical materials, including our catechism, I believe.
Archbishop Georges Casmoussa of Mosul, Iraq, and Aid to the Church in Need's John Pontifex in a studio at Qaraqosh Voice of Peace Catholic radio station in Iraq. Photo: Aid to the Church in Need

Spreading the Faith

With your support, Aid to the Church in Need is helping to spread God’s word around the world. Find out more about the evangelisation projects we fund, including Christian radio, television channels and websites.
Sisters distribute emergency aid in the diocese of Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Photo: Aid to the Church in Need

Emergency Aid

Thanks to you, Aid to the Church in Need is able to respond to the needs of communities affected by natural disasters or emergency situations. By channelling our help through the local bishops, we are able to respond quickly and effectively to crises.
A young girl reading Aid to the Church in Need's Child's Bible. Photo: Aid to the Church in Need

Child’s Bible

For 30 years, Aid to the Church in Need has published the Child’s Bible. To date, more than 50 million copies of this illustrated collection of bible stories have been printed in 171languages.
Fr Anjou Soares (right) and staff at the Joti Educational and Cultural Centre in Mirpurkhas, Pakistan, display a banner made by Christians. Aid to the Church in Need supports the centre. Photo: Aid to the Church in Need

Adoption Projects

Would you or your parish like to support a parish or religious community. Would you like to reach out to our suffering brothers and sisters? Find out more about how you can ‘adopt’ an Aid to the Church in Need project.