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Nigerian Christians again face threats of deadly attacks during Christmas

December 23, 2025 Ngala Killian Chimtom 1

A US-based humanitarian organization has issued a grave warning that armed groups are planning coordinated attacks against Christian communities in northern Nigeria during the Christmas period. The non-profit organization, Equipping the Persecuted, provides essential support […]

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Rights group criticizes Bishop Kukah over comments about genocide in Nigeria

December 9, 2025 Ngala Killian Chimtom 5

The Executive Director of the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law (Intersociety), Emeka Umeagbalasi, has strongly criticized Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, questioning the cleric’s impartiality in addressing claims of a Christian […]

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Eastern Catholics in the United States: A Look at the Numbers

December 1, 2025 J. J. Ziegler 18

In Orientalium Ecclesiarum, the 1964 Decree on the Eastern Catholic Churches, the fathers of the Second Vatican Council declared: The Catholic Church holds in high esteem the institutions, liturgical rites, ecclesiastical traditions and the established standards of […]

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Catholic leader: Religious sects, terrorist groups are “two wolves “preying on African youths

November 2, 2025 Ngala Killian Chimtom 4

Nelson Moda, the head of the Community of Sant’Egidio in Mozambique and a lecturer at the Catholic University of Mozambique, has described religious sects and terrorist groups as “the two wolves” that prey on the […]

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Nigerian church leaders welcome conclusions confirming Christian genocide

October 22, 2025 Ngala Killian Chimtom 17

Church leaders in Nigeria say they are gladdened at the conclusion reached by a U.S. fact-finder that there is a systematic plan to erase Christianity in the African country. Mike Arnold, on October 14th, presented […]

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Bishops warn of “ecocidal tragedy” as illegal mining devastates Ghana

October 11, 2025 Ngala Killian Chimtom 4

The Catholic bishops in Ghana have warned that the government risks being complicit in the “ecocidal tragedy of monumental proportions” if it fails to act swiftly and decisively on illegal gold mining, known locally as […]

Features

Jihadist groups create ‘corridor of violence’ targeting Christians in Sahel

September 24, 2025 Ngala Killian Chimtom 3

Yaoundé, Cameroon — Ryan Brown, the CEO of Open Doors US, paints a grim picture of jihadist violence in the Sahel, saying that jihadist groups have “a regional corridor of violence” targeting religious minorities. Mr. Brown was […]

Features

The challenge of being Catholic in the world’s largest Muslim country

September 19, 2025 R. Cavanaugh 6

Indonesia stays somewhat under the international radar, considering it has the world’s fourth-largest population and the largest of any Muslim-majority nation. About 87% of its people adhere to Islam (over 240 million), but one-tenth of […]

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Conversions and Receptions into the Church: A Look at the Numbers

September 12, 2025 J. J. Ziegler 14

In 1937, Fr. Edward Betowski, a professor at St. Joseph’s Seminary in New York, published Spurs to Conversion, a compilation of weekly reflections encouraging priests to cultivate a missionary spirit in themselves and in their parishioners. Lamenting […]

Features

Report states an average of 30 Christians murdered each day in Nigeria in 2025

August 12, 2025 Ngala Killian Chimtom 42

A new report by the Catholic-inspired International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law, Intersociety, asserts that at least 7,087 Christians were massacred across Nigeria in the first 220 days of 2025—a daily […]

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