ACI Prensa

ACI Prensa

ACI Prensa is the Catholic News Agency's sister agency, which was founded in Lima, Peru, in 1980 by Fr. Adalbert Marie Mohm (†1986). In 1997, ACI Prensa launched the website www.aciprensa.com, which is the largest and most visited online source of Catholic news in Spanish. In 2014, Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) acquired Catholic News Agency and ACI Prensa. Since the merger, CNA and ACI Prensa have expanded their distribution platform. Now it is a service of EWTN News Inc.

Articles by ACI Prensa

Archdiocese of Denver reacts to expulsion of 10 members of the Sodality of Christian Life

Sep 28, 2024 / 21:37 pm

The Peruvian Episcopal Conference announced that on Sept. 25 Pope Francis ordered the Sodality of Christian Life to expel 10 of its members.

Aug. 22 marks International Day of Victims of Religious Persecution

Aug 22, 2024 / 18:30 pm

Every Aug. 22 the International Day of Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief is commemorated.

Venezuelan cardinals warn Maduro government may be fabricating election tally sheets

Aug 7, 2024 / 07:00 am

The cardinals poined out that there are indications that the Maduro government may be “fabricating” election tallies to supposedly prove Maduro won. 

12 keys to using the brown scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel

Jul 16, 2024 / 04:00 am

The Blessed Mother is said to have given the scapular to St. Simon Stock on July 16, 1251.

Opus Dei founder St. Josemaría Escrivá: You can be a saint doing your ordinary job

Jun 26, 2024 / 17:50 pm

Today the Catholic Church honors St. Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer y Albás (1902–1975), Spanish priest, founder of Opus Dei, and author of “The Way.”

Seeing the Eucharist through the eyes of 10 saints

Jun 1, 2024 / 10:20 am

Many saints have encouraged Catholics to prayerfully participate in the holy sacrifice of the Mass and the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.

Today begins May, the month dedicated to our spiritual mother, the Virgin Mary

May 1, 2024 / 16:02 pm

May will always be a special month, the month that the Church dedicates to the Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of God and our spiritual mother.

5 reasons to pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet

Apr 7, 2024 / 10:10 am

The Divine Mercy Chaplet is a pious practice revealed to St. Maria Faustina Kowalska by Jesus himself that has spread throughout the world.

Why the Catholic Church celebrates Easter Monday under the title ‘Monday of the Angel’

Apr 1, 2024 / 05:00 am

In many countries in Europe and South America, this day, also known as “Little Easter,” is a national holiday.

130,000 oppose leftist government’s attempt to change meaning of Spain civil war monument

Mar 28, 2024 / 10:30 am

A Spanish association has garnered more than 130,000 signatures on a petition calling for the Madrid government to protect the Valley of the Fallen.

Catholic chapel where two men celebrated ‘marriage’ now subject to deconsecration

Feb 28, 2024 / 18:28 pm

The private Catholic chapel where two Spanish men celebrated their civil “marriage” last weekend is subject to “canonical effects” and deconsecration.

St. Peter Damian, the driving force behind the reform of the Church 1,000 years ago

Feb 21, 2024 / 04:00 am

This doctor of the Church was simple, firm, and honest in the face of error.

Francisco and Jacinta: brother and sister saints who were seers at Fatima

Feb 20, 2024 / 04:00 am

On Feb. 20, the Church celebrates the lives of two children, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, two of the seers of the Fatima apparitions canonized in 2017.

10 ways to renew your life in Christ this Lent

Feb 11, 2024 / 07:00 am

Consider these tried-and-true ways of entering into Lent this year.

Survivor of human trafficking St. Josephine Bakhita discovered God’s infinite love 

Feb 8, 2024 / 11:15 am

On the International Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking, we honor the Sudanese-Italian saint Josephine Bakhita.

The remarkable life and papacy of Blessed Pope Pius IX

Feb 7, 2024 / 10:30 am

He convened Vatican Council I, proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, and declared St. Joseph “Patron of the Church.”

The first Mexican-born martyr: a castaway friar who was crucified in Japan 

Feb 5, 2024 / 15:40 pm

Only 25 when he was killed, San Felipe de Jesus — St. Philip of Jesus — is celebrated Feb. 5 for the witness he gave as a missionary.

St. Agatha, the early Church martyr who tradition says was visited by St. Peter

Feb 5, 2024 / 04:00 am

Agatha was ruthlessly tortured and martyred under the Roman Emperor Decius in the third century and credited after her death with saving her home town of Catania.

St. Blaise: The bishop who lived in a cave, cured animals, and healed throat ailments

Feb 3, 2024 / 04:00 am

St. Blaise, celebrated on Feb. 3, was a bishop and martyr from Armenia who today is associated with the healing of throats.

The Presentation of the Lord: a symbol of the Messiah’s embrace

Feb 2, 2024 / 04:00 am

On this day we remember when Mary and Joseph carried the infant Jesus to the Temple to fulfill the law.