{"id":52019,"date":"2025-06-19T13:18:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T13:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=52019"},"modified":"2025-06-19T13:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T13:18:06","slug":"report-aid-to-the-church-in-need-spent-150-million-helping-christians-globally-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/learn\/report-aid-to-the-church-in-need-spent-150-million-helping-christians-globally-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Aid to the Church in Need spent $150 million helping Christians globally in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Aid to the Church in Need released its 2024 report detailing how it spent $150 million in donations on June 18, 2025. \/ Credit: yul38885\/Shutterstock<\/span>\n<\/div>\n

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 18, 2025 \/ 16:53 pm (CNA).<\/p>\n

The international Catholic nonprofit Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) spent more than $150 million on thousands of projects to support Christians in 137 countries in 2024, according to a financial report<\/a> released by the organization on June 18.<\/p>\n

Some of the projects included aid to Christians in Ukraine and countries throughout the Middle East and Africa. They also supported faith formation for Catholic seminarians, priests, and laypeople, and funded transportation and construction costs in service to the Church.<\/p>\n

Based in Germany, ACN, which is supported by donations and does not receive government funding, reported that about 80% of funds was spent directly on mission-related expenses. A little more than 7% was spent on administrative expenses and nearly 13% went to advertising.<\/p>\n

ACN received funds from more than 360,000 donors from 23 different countries. <\/p>\n

Nearly 85% of mission-related expenses supported 5,335 aid projects globally, according to the report. The remaining 15% of mission-related funding supported information work such as the publication of Christian literature and advocacy for Christians, proclaiming the Catholic faith, and defense of persecuted Christians. <\/p>\n

\u201cThanks to your generosity, ACN has been able to bring hope to hundreds of thousands of our brothers and sisters in faith, who face daily challenges such as persecution or wars or sheer poverty,\u201d ACN International Executive President Regina Lynch said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany of you experience your own hardships, but still, you have answered God\u2019s call to bring hope to others,\u201d Lynch said. \u201cAt the heart of every project is the desire to help the Church to be an instrument of God\u2019s message of love for all people.\u201d<\/p>\n

In total, ACN received $150.4 million in donations throughout the year and spent an additional $2.4 million in reserves from the previous year. The funding was nearly identical to 2023, when ACN received $154 million in donations and spent an additional $800,000 from reserves.<\/p>\n

According to the report, faith formation accounted for more than 28% of the total funding and Mass stipends accounted for nearly 24%. Construction projects represented nearly 24% of funding and transportation accounted for about 10.5% of funds.<\/p>\n

Throughout 2024, ACN provided nearly 1.85 million Mass stipends to more than 42,000 priests, which means that nearly every 17 seconds a Mass was celebrated because of ACN funds, an ACN news release<\/a> noted.<\/p>\n

Funds also supported faith formation for nearly 10,000 seminarians throughout the year, which the news release stated represents 1 in every 11 seminarians. This includes more than 5,300 in Africa, more than 1,800 in Latin America, more than 1,750 in Asia, and nearly 1,100 in Europe.<\/p>\n

Aid to Ukraine, Africa, the Middle East<\/h2>\n

As the Russia-Ukraine war continued through 2024, Christians in Ukraine were the largest benefactors of support from ACN.<\/p>\n

ACN spent about $9.1 million on Ukraine, which included funding for counseling and support for people suffering from trauma. The money also included funding to train seminarians and to support priests\u2019 basic needs as well as to pay for transportation for them to carry out their pastoral ministry.<\/p>\n

Speaking with \u201cEWTN News Nightly,\u201d Father Anton L\u00e4sser \u2014 the ecclesiastical assistant for ACN \u2014 recalled his last trip to Ukraine, saying: \u201cYou see these young people, they have lost a leg or an arm or they are blind.\u201d<\/p>\n

He spoke about one soldier he encountered there.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he was in the hospital he \u2026 couldn\u2019t talk so he showed to the sister, \u2018please open my eyes\u2019 so that he could realize if he was still able to see,\u201d L\u00e4sser said. \u201cAnd he told us he was never [as] grateful as when he could realize he was still able to see.\u201d<\/p>\n

The continent that received the most support from ACN was Africa, where the organization spent more than 30% of its funds. Nigeria and Burkina Faso received the largest amount of aid.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Church in Africa is growing rapidly and is blessed with large numbers of priestly and religious vocations,\u201d Lynch said in a statement. \u201cAfrica suffers not only from deep poverty but also increasingly from violent Islamic jihadist terror in a growing number of countries.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following Africa, the region that received the second most funding was Asia-Oceania, where about 18.7% of the money was spent. The largest benefactors were Christians in India, which accounted for $6.7 million worth of funding. According to ACN, Christians in India are the largest benefactors of scholarships and Mass stipends from ACN funds.<\/p>\n

About 17.5% of the funding was spent in the Middle East, with Christians in Lebanon, Syria, and the Holy Land being the largest benefactors. According to ACN, this funding helped to support Christians facing struggles due to armed conflicts.<\/p>\n

Latin America accounted for nearly 17% of the funding and Europe received nearly 16% of the funding. About 1% went to other regions.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/264835\/aid-to-the-church-in-need-spent-150-dollars-million-helping-christians-globally-in-2024-report-finds<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aid to the Church in Need released its 2024 report detailing how it spent $150 million in donations on June 18, 2025. \/ Credit: yul38885\/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 18, 2025 \/ 16:53 pm (CNA). 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