The international Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has been elevated by Pope Benedict XVI to the status of a pontifical Foundation. The official seat of the foundation is the Vatican City. This represents the fulfilment of a wish of Father Werenfried to see the charity always very close to the Holy Father. Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy, has been appointed by the Pope as the President of the new Foundation. Its Executive President will be Johannes Freiherr Heereman, while its new Ecclesiastical Assistant is Father Martin Barta.

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Creation date: December 4, 2001

Latest updates:

January 27, 2012

The latest issue of the Mirror is online. Please read the details in the colume to the right and use the links to the appropriate pages.

January 18, 2012

We added a press release titled:

• Archbishop of Sarajevo demands equal treatment for Catholics

Other articles and documents

We also keep at your disposal the following publications:

• the latest special report(s) published over the current year and
• news releases and articles published over the three preceding months

Our e-library also contains the last four issues of the Mirror, our latest annual and activity reports and other texts of interests in PDF format. They can be easily downloaded free of charge.

For any other request and/or comment, please feel free to communicate with us.

January 27, 2012

This month’s issue of the Mirror (No. 1, January 2012) is out and available for download.

This month’s issue is about subsistence aid and the essential contribution of religious sisters to evangelization. We invite you to read on these subjects in our International projects section and put ACN on your Christmas shopping list.

This time, page 4 of the Mirror is reservec for an article by Marie-Claude Lalonde, national director of ACN-Canada on the subject of religious liberty in Egypt:

« Even if Egypt is a member of the United Nations (UN), it doesn’t prevent it from falling short with respect to Human rights. Freedom of expression is steadily undermined and bloggers from the Arab Spring remain behind bars. » »»»»
 
We do hope that these teasers will encourage you to read one of the integral versions of the Mirror.You are also invited to visit our e-library for other documents made available in light or full versions, including some back issues of the Mirror, our latest Annual Report and other archived documents.

Annual activities report

Our activities report for 2009 is now available. You can consult a brief presentation or better, download the integral copy. It will prove of utmost interest for those who want to know about ACN's realizations, but also for all those who are interested in an overview of the situation of the Church in the World.

Financial Report

You can check how we use the donations you make in favour of the faithful in need. Frist, you can consult a summary in the Annual Report Section of this site. Second, you can read a two-page document published every year or download the electronic version from this page. Finally, our verified financial statement is available upon request.

Fiscal tip

ACN Canada receives absolutely no government subsidies; it relies entirely on your donations to carry on its mission. However, our governments do encourage philanthropy and charity through generous tax credits to donors.

Although these credits can change from year to year, changes are usually minor and therefore, using the past fiscal year grid can give you a very good idea of the credits your current year donations can earn you. Download the grid for your province or territory of residence to make such an assessment.

You can also use your local grid to evaluate government contributions to your favourite charities, should you decide to donate the anticipated tax credits for the current fiscal year. To learn more about the subject, visit our sections on tax credits and government contributions.

However, please take due note that these calculation grids are only meant for evaluation purposes, and although every care has been taken to provide a useful tool, we are not tax specialists. Consequently, we cannot and do not guarantee perfect accuracy in all cases and the use of the grids should not prevent you from consulting a tax specialist or accountant, when needed.

Finally, even though we do not call your attention to it every time, we do make minor modifications as needed to keep this site up to date and, we sincerely hope, useful and interesting.

Thanks for visiting.