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Armed attack and mass kidnapping at Catholic Schools in Niger State
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The Catholic Diocese of Kontagora has reported a violent overnight attack on St. Mary’s Catholic Primary and Secondary Schools in Papiri, Niger State, Nigeria, resulting ...
New mass abduction of schoolgirls in northern Nigeria
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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 ...
Nigeria: Priest abducted in the Archdiocese of Kaduna
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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 ...
Terrified women and children block road after three more murders
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On Monday, August 11, women and children in Nigeria blocked a road in protest of their lack of security, after their besieged town fell victim ...
“They beat me, but I thank God I survived,” says priest kidnapped by jihadists
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A Catholic priest has given a harrowing account of how he nearly lost an eye after being kidnapped by armed extremists in Nigeria and held ...
Nigeria: Kidnapped priest, Father Alphonsus Afina, freed along with ten female hostages
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Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) International joyfully announces the release of Fr. Alphonsus Afina, a priest of the Diocese of Maiduguri, Nigeria, who ...
US human rights panel finds ongoing religious freedom violations in Nigeria
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Religious communities in Nigeria are facing ongoing, systematic, and egregious violations of their ability to practice their faith, says a US human rights monitor. A ...
Nigerian minor seminary attacked: Security guard killed, three students kidnapped
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Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) strongly condemns the violent attack perpetrated on July 10, 2025 against the Immaculate Conception Minor Seminary in Ivhianokpodi, Diocese ...
Help for the Priestly Formation of 76 Religious in Nigeria
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Nigeria is a dangerous country for Christians, especially for priests. In the past 10 years, over 150 priests were abducted, and over a dozen were ...
Public memorial to victims of 2022 Nigeria church attack demolished
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Like the 9/11 Memorial in lower Manhattan, a public memorial park dedicated to the victims of a deadly Pentecost Sunday attack on a church in ...