Live through your help

800 years later, his mission to restore the Church lives on through you.

Live through your help

800 years later, his mission to restore the Church lives on through you.

The call of San Francisco lives on

More than 800 years ago, St. Francis chose to live the Gospel with simplicity, love, and total dedication to the poorest of the poor. Today, his example continues to illuminate the world.

Living the Franciscan spirit does not mean looking to the past. It means responding to today’s suffering with compassion, brotherhood, and faith.

Today you can be part of that mission: accompanying forgotten communities, sustaining the Church’s presence, and bringing hope where it is most needed.

We don’t just invite you to help. We invite you to live the Gospel.

“Today, you can be a source of peace for those who are suffering.”

When a Franciscan is absent, a community is left on its own

In many parts of the world, Franciscans are the Church’s only presence. They accompany displaced families, visit the sick, support young people who have lost hope, and keep the faith alive amid poverty and persecution.

But many of these missions are at risk.

Without help, entire communities may be left behind. Churches may close their doors. People who have lost everything may be left without comfort.

Your support helps keep faith alive where it is needed most.

Your help makes a difference

Every donation enables the Franciscans to continue bringing faith, hope, and practical assistance to those living in extreme circumstances.

Your support helps:

  • Keeping churches and convents open in conflict zones
  • Reaching isolated communities
  • Training new missionary friars
  • Supporting vulnerable young people and families
  • Bringing pastoral and humanitarian aid where it is most needed
  • Maintaining a Christian presence in places where Christians are persecuted

Your generosity doesn’t just provide material assistance. It brings comfort, companionship, and hope.

Your faith can go further

Aid to the Church in Need supports Christian communities living amid war, poverty, and persecution.

Thanks to people like you, the Franciscans can continue to be present where the Church needs them most.

We understand the specific needs of each mission and ensure that aid reaches those who are suffering directly.

Today, your help can bring hope to someone who has lost everything.

You can answer the call today, too

St. Francis understood that loving God means reaching out to those who suffer, walking alongside the forgotten, and bringing peace where there is pain.

Today, you too can answer that call.

With your help, the Franciscans will continue to be a source of hope for those living amid war, poverty, and loneliness.

“Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.”

Today, they need you to walk alongside them.

Eight hundred years ago, a way of living out the Gospel began.
Today, it can continue thanks to you

A Pontifical Foundation with worldwide reach

Founded in 1947 as a Catholic aid organization for war refugees and recognized 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 or oppressed or suffering material need

«I invite you all, together with ACN, to do a work of mercy in every part of the world.»

Contact

Aid to the Church in Need

ACN Global Office

Contact:

+57 313 3262029

info@acn-global.org

As a pontifical foundation, Aid to the Church in Need has a mandate to act for the benefit of the Church.