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Mauritania: The challenges of ministering to a community of migrants
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The only diocese in Mauritania has just celebrated its sixtieth anniversary. Bishop Victor Ndione, who has led the Diocese of Nouakchott for two years, tells ...
Catholics returning “in their thousands, not hundreds,” say bishops in Nigeria
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Thousands of Catholics in northeast Nigeria have returned to church in defiance of fear, following more than 15 years of violent insurgencies. Bishop John Bakeni ...
Church calls for tighter security after 10 slaughtered
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In the Taraba State region, according to Church figures, over 100 people have been killed and 90,000 displaced since September 2025. Following a fresh massacre, ...
Catholic Church steps up pressure on Nigerian government over rising violence
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Over the past days, several Catholic organizations and dioceses have issued calls for the government to deploy more military and police personnel to stem the ...
Renovation of a Convent for Sisters in São Tomé and Príncipe
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The Portuguese-speaking country of São Tomé and Príncipe is the second-smallest nation in Africa. It consists of two principal islands and lies just off the ...
Some kidnapped from Catholic school in Nigeria were kept in cages
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Ongoing attacks point to need for greater security. Local bishop appealing to government for more military camps. Some members of the group kidnapped from St. ...
A New Village Chapel in Madagascar
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Ankililoaka Mission is located in a remote and underdeveloped rural region of southwest Madagascar and is run by the Salesian Fathers. The people here have ...
New Year begins with bloodshed: 50 killed in attacks in Nigeria
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The New Year has not begun peacefully in Nigeria’s Catholic Diocese of Kontagora. Just as the final days of 2025 were marked by violence and ...
Nigeria: A decade of terror for Catholic priests
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There have been 212 clergy kidnappings since 2015. Between 2015 and 2025, at least 212 Catholic priests were kidnapped in Nigeria, in a wave of ...
More Nigerian Catholic school students freed by kidnappers
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There are hopeful signs that the remaining students who were kidnapped from a Nigerian Catholic school last month will be home for Christmas. The Diocese ...