ACI MENA

The Association for Catholic Information Middle East and North Africa, or ACI MENA, publishes original news content in Arabic using a network of correspondents across the region. The news agency operates from the campus of Erbil’s Catholic University (CUE.) ACI MENA is the latest addition to the ACI Group, which includes ACI Prensa, the world's largest Spanish-language Catholic news organization with headquarters in Lima, Peru; ACI Digital, the São Paulo, Brazil-based news organization, which serves the Portuguese-speaking world; ACI Stampa, the Italian-language news organization based in Rome; and ACI Africa, which covers news from the African continent in English, French, and Portuguese. ACI Group is part of the larger EWTN News, Inc. division, which also includes Catholic News Agency (CNA), the German-language news service CNA Deutsch, and several other Catholic news outlets, including the National Catholic Register, "EWTN News Nightly," "EWTN News In Depth," and several other television news programs.