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US Bishops Focus on Domestic Issues, Nigeria, and Nicaragua for Religious Freedom Week
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Religious Freedom. It’s a value that was so important to the Founding Fathers that they dedicated the First Amendment to the Constitution to it. It’s ...
Nigeria: Up to 200 dead in worst killing spree
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IDPs burned alive, shot dead, and macheted Militants massacred up to 200 Christians in Nigeria’s Benue State on the evening of Friday, June 13. They ...
Bishop calls for prayers as priest is kidnapped by jihadists in Nigeria
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Fr. Alphonsus Afina was kidnapped on Sunday, June 1, in the Diocese of Maiduguri. The auxiliary bishop of Maiduguri, Nigeria has called for urgent prayers ...
Dozens killed in new wave of attacks on communities in Nigeria’s Middle Belt
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A priest coming back from a memorial service for two slain clergymen shot and injured. A farmer gunned down on his own farm. Three members ...
Mass Stipends for 46 Priests in Africa
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This year, the Missionaries of Africa are celebrating the 200th birthday of their founder, Charles Martial Allemand Lavigerie, who was born on October 31, 1825 ...
Despite hardships, Christianity grows “astronomically” in northern Nigeria
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Bishop Habila Daboh of the Diocese of Zaria in Nigeria spoke to ACN about the difficult situation for Christians in the north of the country, ...
Nigeria: Two more priests kidnapped over the weekend
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Nigeria now accounts for over 80 percent of all incidents involving the murder, kidnapping, or unjust arrest of Catholic priests and religious in 2025. Two ...
Nigerian Church in pain as 21-year-old seminarian murdered by kidnappers
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The murder of seminarian Andrew Peter follows the recent killing of Father Sylvester Okechukwu. In the first three months of 2025, Nigeria has had three ...
Nigeria: Let our children go back to school
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A plea for government in northern Nigeria to re-think the sudden and unprecedented closure of schools during Ramadan is coming from a bishop concerned for ...
Bishop expresses “sorrow and righteous indignation” over murder of Nigerian priest
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Since 2021, the Diocese of Kafanchan in Nigeria has seen at least one pastoral agent murdered every year. The bishop of the Diocese of Kafanchan ...