Long-time ACN project partner Sister Annie Demerjian RJM has risked her life offering help and hope in Lebanon and Syria. In this podcast, she recounts her many experiences working alongside fellow Sisters and volunteers providing urgent practical assistance and spiritual support to people on the frontline of deadline conflict and extreme poverty.

Joanna Bogle joins us to discuss her lifelong commitment to speaking out for the persecuted and suffering Church. Together, we explore what faithfulness, courage, and solidarity look like in practice.

ACN's John Pontifex and Elliott Banks discuss their recent trip to Iraq investigating freedom of religion for Christians and other minorities, and the wider challenges cause by the latest conflict.

In this episode, Dr Caroline Hull talks to Bishop William Shomali, Patriarchal Vicar of Israel and Palestine about the situation for Christians living in the Holy Land today. Many Christians in the region describe themselves as "the living stones" of the Church having been the first communities to embrace the teachings of Christ, Our Lord.

Bishop Jovitus tells ACN's Nathalie Raffray how the Church in Tanzania has been forced to navigate its response to the violence following contentious elections. People have been killed or are missing and any protests shut down.

Rupert Shortt is a British author and journalist known for writing about the modern-day persecution of Christians around the world. He is joined by ACN’s John Pontifex to discuss issues related to the decline of Christianity in the West, as well as religious freedom violations globally.

Bishop John Bakeni is Auxiliary Bishop of Maiduguri in north-eastern Nigeria. His community was afflicted by years of Boko Haram insurgency and frequent terror attacks. Bishop John believes the diocese would not have survived without the help of ACN benefactors. He joins ACN's John Pontifex for a conversation about the power of the Christian Faith in the shadow of Islamist extremism.

Father Peter Konteh was ordained during the height of Sierra Leone’s brutal 10-year civil war. He joins ACN's John Pontifex to discuss his over three decades of pastoral ministry and humanitarian work, including his role as ACN project partner.