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Nigeria: “At last, killers have been held to account,” says bishop

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Bishop Jude Arogundade thanked ACN for its campaign on behalf of survivors, who “will always carry the scars of what happened that day.” The bishop ...

Nigeria: Suspects arrested in Catholic school kidnapping

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“The families will be relieved and happy to hear that those who planned the abduction of their children have been arrested. This is truly good ...

Nigeria: “Holy Week for us is not history. It is reality.”

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The Bishop of Wukari tells ACN about the suffering of his people and says the federal government of Nigeria must do more to stop the ...

Priest warns of ‘guerrilla warfare’ as dozens killed by suicide bombers

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A priest has warned that terrorists are “sneaking” into villages after a suspected suicide attack in northeast Nigeria resulted in multiple deaths. Father Joseph Fidelis, ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...
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