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The attack represents “a major blow to the education of young girls, which is already quite rare in these parts of the country,” say local sources. The abduction of about 25 students from the Government Girls’ Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga, in Nigeria’s northwestern state of Kebbi, has plunged the community into deep shock. A local source consulted by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) explained that the attack caught residents off-guard, at a moment when violence in the ...

The west African nation has been classified as suffering from severe, systematic, and ongoing religious freedom violations. Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has received an official communication from the Archdiocese of Kaduna, Nigeria, reporting the abduction of a priest following a violent attack on the community of Kushe Gugdu in the Kagarko Local Government Area of Kaduna State. In the early hours of Monday, November 17, armed assailants attacked the residence of Fr. Bobbo Paschal, parish priest of ...

Archbishop Séamus Patrick Horgan, Apostolic Nuncio to South Sudan, has just completed a diplomatic mission through the places in the region most badly affected by the current civil war in Sudan. Over several days, the archbishop expressed Pope Leo’s solidarity and closeness with the Christian community, which has struggled to keep its faith in the midst of the conflict.    Speaking to Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Fr. Jorge Naranjo, a Spanish missionary with a long track ...

International Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) expresses its deep concern for and solidarity with the families of the victims of a brutal attack carried out on September 8-9 in Ntoyo, in the parish of Saint Joseph of Manguredjipa, in the province of North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The attack has been attributed to the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF). According to local sources close to the charity, the massacre left at least 64 dead, ...

Church property has been vandalized, and so far, authorities have failed to act. Archbishop Inácio Saure of Nampula, Mozambique held a press conference on Wednesday, September 3, to denounce the illegal occupation of Church land by groups of citizens who have built houses on the territory.   The invaded land includes plots on which the female congregation of the Servants of Mary, two seminaries, and the parish of St. John the Baptist in Marrare are located. In at least one of ...

Fr. Augustine Amadu was a friend of Aid to the Church in Need, and his death is a tragic loss for the Church in the Diocese of Kenema and for the whole Church.  A priest was murdered in his parish home on Saturday, August 30, in the Diocese of Kenema, Sierra Leone. Fr. Augustine Amadu was found dead by parishioners following what is believed to have been a robbery.   According to an autopsy, the priest received a heavy blow to the ...