{"id":55750,"date":"2025-11-29T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/?p=55750"},"modified":"2025-11-29T11:57:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T09:57:43","slug":"acn-new-president-kurt-koch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/actualidad\/acn-nuevo-presidente-kurt-koch\/","title":{"rendered":"Aid to the Church in Need has a new president: Cardinal Kurt Koch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monsignor Kurt Koch is the new president of the pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). Koch succeeds Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, who has been at the helm of this international organization for the past 14 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Koch takes on this task from the Pope with a long career behind him in the field of interreligious and ecumenical relations, a task on which the pontifical foundation bases much of its charisma. 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