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Conflicts between nomadic herders and settled farmers date back centuries, but the influx of high-grade firearms over the past several years has made the attacks ...

Pakistan is one of the countries where the problem is most severe, along with Mozambique, Nigeria, Egypt, Iraq, and Syria.

According to data compiled by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), at least 18 priests have been kidnapped in Nigeria since the beginning of ...

“With this situation, nobody is safe anywhere. If you go out of your house, even in the daytime, until you come back, you are not ...

“There are still people being persecuted because of their faith and thankfully ACN didn’t accept the political correctness and said, ‘Yes, Christians are being persecuted.’”

The study estimates that the figures it presents are lower than the actual number of attacks. “Cases were found where the priests were so tired ...

“What but pure evil would make a man kill a four-year-old and a two-year-old like this, in church during Mass?” the bishop asked. He added, ...

Father Vitus Borogo was murdered during a botched kidnapping attempt. Father Joseph Aketeh Bako was abducted at the beginning of March and spent one month ...

"As I was lying there, one of the gunmen threw a tiny light close to me. It immediately registered in my head that it could ...

"But then I heard a second loud noise, and I saw parishioners running in different directions in the church. I stood there in shock, wondering ...