#RedWednesday 2025 - 19th November
Established in 2016 ACN’s #RedWednesday campaign is your opportunity to shine a light on the suffering of millions who are persecuted for their faith. Please join us on the lead up to #RedWednesday, (this year 19th November).

We are looking for communities and individuals nationwide to take action by sharing our work, attending an event or fundraising. Will you put your faith in action to help raise awareness and bring hope to those who need it most?

Join #TeamRed and together help ACN raise £500k4HOPE via #RedWednesday matched challenge. Click the button below to set up a page, or to support another in their efforts to help change the life of a suffering Christians.

The group meets next on Wednesday 17th December at 5.30pm on Zoom.
Email Fr. Matthew for an invite.

Pope Leo XIV's prayer intention for December focuses on Christians living in areas of conflict, urging them to be "seeds of peace, reconciliation, and hope."
Prayer Intention
Pope Leo XIV invites the faithful to pray for Christians living in war-torn regions, particularly in the Middle East. He emphasizes the importance of solidarity and support for these communities, stating:
"Let us pray that Christians living in areas of war or conflict, especially in the Middle East, might be seeds of peace, reconciliation, and hope."

ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY - We tackle poverty in all its forms by providing assistance to people in need. During December we are helping to collect nightwear for hospital patients in liaison with the Nevill Hall hospital chaplaincy and we have an urgent appeal for donations to restock the food pantry and provide families with vouchers for Christmas at All Saints School Ebbw Vale. Your continued help is always gratefully received. New members always welcome to join us. For further information on SVP
visit: https://www.svp.org.uk contact: presidentg050512@svp.org.uk, or Fr Matthew.

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Now we've bought the land, we need to do something with it!

During the next two weeks, the site will be secured, the Japanese Knotweed will be treated, the greenery will be cut back and the fly tipping removed.

What then?!

We want your help to design a long-term plan for the garden.

There will be a meeting on Thursday 23 October at 18.00 at the Methodist Church Hall for anyone interested in getting involved in the gardening project where our landscape architects, Element Urbanism, will talk through the constraints of the land and the possibilities open to us. The meeting is for anyone who wants to find out a bit more with no obligation.

You might want to be hands-on with the gardening or just give some input into the design. You don't need to have volunteered with us before and you don't even need lots of gardening experience. Just bring lots of enthusiasm.

If you would like to come to the meeting and/or get involved in the garden project, please get in touch at info@plasguntermansion.org.uk. You will have the chance to work with professional landscape architects and help design our new outdoor space.

(Heads up - the office is going to be closed for a couple of weeks but let us know you're interested and we'll be in touch in due course.)




Thanks
Thanks to the funders which have made this project possible:
Local Places for Nature Programme which is funded by Welsh Government and managed by the National Lottery Heritage Fund
Abergavenny Town Council
Abergavenny Civic Society
Individual supporters

We are Friends of the Holy Land, and we care for Christians living with extreme suffering and injustice in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (which you may know as the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza), Jordan and Israel. Providing immediate relief and long-term practical support, so that they can remain in the land of their birthright and have hope to survive and thrive.

We are guided by Christian virtues of love and justice, we do this through practical means, by raising awareness and through prayer, as Christ taught.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Christians made up roughly 29% of the overall population of the Holy Land. Today they account for less than 2%. Those remaining face such difficult conditions that many will be forced to leave their homes. Soon this dwindling community may cease to exist at all without our help. This fact, little recognised by Christians around the world, is what drives our vision.

FHL provides practical assistance with everyday living costs. We help people access healthcare and education; and to start and grow businesses. Currently, we are also providing humanitarian aid. Every single day, we aim to provide opportunity and hope.

We are on the ground and deeply connected to these communities. Our local network, rooted in this ancient Christian community, really understand the existing needs. Our committee and staff team in the West Bank as well as our partners in Gaza, Israel and Jordan identify families in need of help and ensure your donations go directly and quickly to them.

At the very heart of what we do every day is to provide opportunity and hope. We are a community of Christians united in supporting our brothers and sisters in the birthplace of our faith.

Friends of the Holy Land embraces and supports all Christians in the Holy Land. We connect them to a worldwide community of Christians and people of good will who care.




By supporting us, you’ll join a community of Christians united in support of our brothers and sisters in the birthplace of our faith. Helping them to remain and thrive. From your heart to the heart of Christianity
https://www.friendsoftheholyland.org.uk/about-us