Reims, Paris, Sainte-Anne d’Auray, Monaco and Perpignan will be the places where from now to March 27^th the ninth “Night of Witnesses”, “a vigil of support and prayer for persecuted Christians”, organised by the association Aid to the Church in Need (Aed) France, will stop. The name of the process “recalls in particular those lonely nights that oppressed people often feel”, as explained by the organisers of the event in the Principality of Monaco. “The Christians killed this year will be named during the evening to mark the pace of the silent prayers, songs, stories and meditations on the fruit of martyrdom”. The situation of Christians in Syria, Niger and Korea will be told by three witnesses: brother Jacques Mourad, a Syrian monk of the community of Mar Musa, hostage to Isis for 5 months in 2015 and now living in the Iraqi side of Kurdistan to serve refugee families; father Philippe Blot, missionary in South Korea, who works with North Koreans fleeing from dictatorship; sister Marie-Catherine Kingbo, nun in Nigeria. “The strength” of this initiative “lies in giving a voice to witnesses who have first-hand experience of what they are talking about, often risking their lives. Words turning into actions can move hearts”, as explained by Marc Fromager, director of Aed, who will go with this pilgrimage of support, received in every city by the local bishop.