Posted by ACN News on 2/5/2012, 12:46 pm
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ACN News: Wednesday, 2nd May 2012 Aid to the Church in Need congratulates Mr John McCarthy QC Mr John McCarthy QC, a long time board member of the Australian office of the Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), has been appointed as the next Australian Ambassador to the Holy See. Mr McCarthy will replace the Hon Tim Fischer AC who served as Australia’s first resident Ambassador to the Holy See from February 2009 until January 2012. It is envisaged that Mr McCarthy will take up his position in September of this year. (Mr John McCarthy QC) ACN warmly congratulates Mr McCarthy and wishes him well in his new appointment. Aid to the Church in Need, founded in 1947, is an international Catholic charity under the authority of the Holy See. The charity provides pastoral assistance to the Church wherever She is poor, persecuted or threatened. Editor’s Notes Directly under the Holy See, Aid to the Church in Need supports the faithful wherever they are persecuted, oppressed or in pastoral need. ACN is a Catholic charity – helping to bring Christ to the world through prayer, information and action. The charity undertakes thousands of projects every year including providing transport for clergy and lay Church workers, construction of church buildings, funding for priests and nuns and help to train seminarians. Since the initiative’s launch in 1979, Aid to the Church in Need’s Child’s Bible – God Speaks to his Children has been translated into 162 languages and 48 million copies have been distributed all over the world. While ACN gives full permission for the media to freely make use of the charity’s press releases, please acknowledge ACN as the source of stories when using the material. For more information or to make a donation to help the work of Aid to the Church in Need, please contact the Australian office of ACN on (02) 9679-1929. e-mail: info@aidtochurch.org or write to Aid to the Church in Need PO Box 6245 Blacktown DC NSW 2148. On Line donations can be made at www.aidtochurch.org